While checking Facebook recently, I stumbled across two quotes that really struck me and seemed poignant to share as we enter the nomination process for the third annual Arizona Capitol Times Leaders of the Year in Public Policy awards. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership,” by Faye Wattleton, the youngest and first [...]

The staff was geared up and ready to go on Saturday in anticipation that we would move a step closer to Sine Die. But the Legislature didn’t pass any bills on Saturday and actually maneuvered farther away from anything close to a budget deal. Despite that, the staff was at the Capitol, keeping track of what was happening [...]

Ewwww … like gross. Here’s what really goes on while we’re hanging out at the shop after hours. Actually this was very funny – you really had to be there.

Looks like it’s off to work for the Capitol folks tomorrow.

What do you do when the boss comes in and says you’ve got to work Saturday? For us, it’s not a matter of the boss coming in – it was just a matter of if the Legislature is working, then so are we.

For their annual meeting, Arizona Town Hall officials asked me to answer the question “Is state government responsive to Arizona’s needs?” Considering my position as the leader of a non-partisan news organization, I thought it better to offer five topics that should be discussed at one of their two three-and-a-half day town halls that are planned [...]