Julia Shumway and Arren Kimbel-Sannit//April 17, 2020//[read_meter]

When they returned to work in January, Arizona lawmakers faced a financial situation colleagues everywhere would envy: an extra, unbudgeted $1 billion. At the time, their biggest challenge appeared to...

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