Can the state legislature raise taxes with a simple majority?

by David SafierEight people from Arizona's universities got together to look at various ways Arizona can deal with our budget crisis. The group calls itself the Fiscal Alternative Choices Team — FACT. Clever acronym. So the 65 page paper they just released is called The FACT Report. Who can argue with FACTs? By the way, … Read more

A little friendly competition, cast your votes now!

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Tedski over at R-Cubed reports that Chris Cilizza of the Washington Post is once again running a “Best State Blogs” survey. He is, for the second year in a row, basing this on the opinions of his readers. If you would like to vote for Blog for Arizona, you simply make a … Read more

April Fool’s Joke: The GOP Budget Plan

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Republican leadership's insane clown posse finally released its GOP's budget report (PDF) today, on April Fool's Day no less, following their fiasco of a press conference last week (the comedy just writes itself with this gang who couldn't shoot straight). I have quickly read through the GOP plan – easy to … Read more