Wednesday, March 18, 2026

The Arizona legislature in action: "sneaky" as a political tactic/position

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The Republican caucus in the AZ legislature has been described with many words. "Subtle" is NOT one of them. At next Monday's ...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Legislative schedule - week starting 3/15/2026

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We've reached the penultimate week of committee consideration for this year's edition of the Arizona legislative session (all bills ...
Sunday, March 08, 2026

Follow the money. ProPublica has published a database of financial disclosures from those folks in Cheeto's administration

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Earlier this week, ProPublica  released a database  of financial disclosures from Cheeto and some of the officials in his administration. I ...

Legislative schedule - week starting 3/8/2026

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 As of right now, there's only one striker being offered, but the text of that striker isn't available as yet.  And whether that tot...
Tuesday, March 03, 2026

It may be easy to get caught up in the tumult of an election year, but no one should sleep on school board races.

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They may be decidedly unsexy (downballot, nonpartisan, unpaid, entry-level) and easy to ignore. Most voters don't actually pay attention...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Legislative schedule - week starting 3/1/2026

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Right now, there's nary a striker to be found on this week's committee agendas, but I write that with two caveats in mind: 1. That w...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Legislative schedule - week starting 2/22/2026

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As I predicted last week, there are far fewer bills under consideration in committee this week. Read bills carefully - bills that look (rela...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Legislative schedule - week starting 2/15/2026

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This coming Friday (2/20) will be the last day when measures can heard in committees in their chambers of origin*.  Committee agendas will b...