Nobody can honestly tell whether Edwards, Obama, or Clinton will win the Iowa caucuses. All we can be a little bit sure of is that it is very likely to be one of them, and not any of the other candidates. The polling is statistically insignificant: it’s a dead heat going in. The big factors … Read more

With 2008 upon us, I feel moved to make some wildly improbable predictions and some more-or-less reasonable guesses about how history will unfold in the coming year. I think maybe 10% of my predictions for 2007 arguably came to pass, at least by the lax standards applied to the vague utterances of a Nostradamus. I’m … Read more

Today, Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll announced his support for Salette Latas in the race for one of three seats on the Oro Valley Town Council. This may be the beginning of a much-needed non-partisan alliance against the profligate give-away of our local tax base in the name of "economic development" in Arizona’s communities. Carroll, … Read more

by David Safier When I wrote a post after the election integrity trial and before Judge Miller’s ruling (A Layman’s View of the Election Integrity Trial), I tried to predict how he would rule based on my assessment of his intellect and temperament. I was close. Judge Miller ruled that databases the Democrats are seeking … Read more

I took a look back at what I have written here at BlogForArizona in 2007. Some is eminently forgettable and ephemeral, but a lot is actually still worth reading. Following are some of the ‘still worth reading’ category in no particular chronological order. It may seem like a goodly amount of material to you, but … Read more

Many of you probably don’t even know who Dan Spahr is. That’s a symptom of his less-than-memorable campaign for Ward 4 City Council against Shirley Scott. Once he was quite-predictably crushed at the polls, I never expected to give him another thought, unless he got it into his head to take on another kamikaze political … Read more