Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Senate has finished for the day and will reconvene on Monday at 9:30 a.m. The House is working through a series of budget resolution bills, but will not address the sales tax ballot measure or the flat tax proposal until Monday. We're going down to the wire on this budget. … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The March4Schools Coalition rally at the State Capitol building today caused a brief ruckus. Boisterous education rally briefly shuts state House doors Several hundred education supporters chanting "save our state" flooded the front of the House of Representatives this morning, prompting security to briefly lock the House doors. Your Arizona state legislators: … Read more
by David SafierI got a news release from Giffords trumpeting her Yes vote on the energy bill that just passed the house. A good vote, but not a surprise. Energy is Giffords' signature issue. But her position on health care legislation is still up in the air. Mike Bryan took apart the hybrid health care … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Geezus, I spend a couple of days in Phoenix attending the Arizona State Bar convention and all hell breaks loose (and I don't mean the wall-to-wall entertainment idol worship of the media villagers over the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson). No, as Michael Bryan reported, our Accidental Governor and the … Read more
By Michael Bryan AP Wire as well as informal sources report that a budget deal has been struck between the Governor and the Legislature: the legislatures brutal program cuts in exchange for a November ballot on a 1 cent sales tax boost. Yay. There will be much more to say about this subject, but let … Read more