After meeting with fiscal bomb throwing MAGA “Free Caucus” State House Republicans, an incensed Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs issued the below statement, calling their position “a farce” and “pointless political grandstanding” that hurts hardworking Arizonans. She also reiterated that their move to pass a continuation budget would “meet her veto pen.” “For months I have … Read more
Arizona House MAGA Free Caucus Republicans led by Speaker Steve Montenegro, the ones who decided to take a one month siesta away from the State Capitol and ignore the people’s business have chosen to whine and ignore a bipartisan FY26 budget passed earlier this morning in the Senate and forge a continuation budget that will … Read more
Another school year. Another $20,000,000 in free luxury expenses for private after school extracurricular activities that many of Arizona’s wealthiest, the people who do not need the money, legally fleece from the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Account appropriations that working and middle class taxpayers put into state coffers. Additional reporting from Craig Harris has … Read more
If you thought Arizona had learned anything from our state’s last water scandal, think again. Pima County just sold off 290 acres of public land near the Fairgrounds for a $3.6 billion data center project. Yep, in a 3–2 vote on June 17, the Board of Supervisors approved a deal with Project Blue, a San … Read more
Honestly, this should not be a surprise to the American People. Since the time of Reagan, Republicans before Donald Trump have been proposing historically discredited supply side trickle down economics budgets that make the rich richer, the poor poorer, the middle class smaller, and the national debt higher. With Trump doing their bidding, this third … Read more