by David Safier The Star has a good editorial this morning blasting the recommendations the R-majority committee on tuition tax credits put together. I've complained mightily for weeks (months?) about the Star's lackluster-to-absent coverage of the topic. Let's hope this is the paper's first installment on tuition tax credit and STO abuse, not the final … Read more
by David Safier I could call this self parody, but for AZ legislators of the Republican persuasion, it's business as usual. You probably remember that both the East Valley Trib and the Republic ran a number of investigative articles starting a few months back exposing all kinds of problems with the tuition tax credit system … Read more
by David Safier Weird battle lines are being drawn in the payday loan wars these days. You expect the Ds and Rs to be on opposite sides here, with the Ds for ending payday loans and the Rs trying to figure out a way to keep payday loans without actually coming out in favor of … Read more
by David Safier Idiot's Guides have been big over the past few years. Goldwater Institute has created one for Republican legislators, a list it calls 100 Ideas for 100 Days: Budget Solutions and Ideas for State Elected Officials. To be fair, nowhere does G.I. say Dems can't use it as well, but . . . … Read more
by David Safier I'm not always encouraged by the ed reform ideas I'm hearing, and that includes what's coming from Duncan's Dept of Ed. But here's where I see promise. The idea seems to be to encourage lots of approaches to improving education. If that's true, we have a decent chance of finding a number … Read more