Carsten Oyer

coyer@stateaffairs.com

Carsten Oyer

Carsten Oyer is an intern for the Arizona Capitol Times. He is a junior at Arizona State University, where he is studying journalism and political science. He is also a managing editor at The State Press, the ASU student newspaper. Oyer has previously worked as a Washington correspondent for Small Wars Journal and Cronkite News and interned with PolitiFact.

Recent Articles from Carsten Oyer

With water policy an election issue, experts hope attention will spur solutions

Partisanship in the Legislature has already weakened the state’s ability to reach water policy solutions, experts say.

Sandra Watson, Arizona Commerce Authority CEO, named Arizona Woman of the Year

Sandra Watson, president and CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority, was named Woman of the Year on Thursday at the Arizona Capitol Times’ 2026 Arizona Women Achievers award ceremony at the Arizona Biltmore.

Treasurer race gets personal as candidates cast doubt on the other’s integrity

Personal attacks from both candidates for state treasurer have turned the typically under-the-radar race into a contentious fight.

Sybil Francis, right, speaks with moderator David Becker Sept. 22 at the Arizona State University Mechanics of Democracy Laboratory's Fall Election Convening at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism in Phoenix.

Sybil Francis seeks to empower voters’ voices through public opinion polling

Sybil Francis, president and CEO of the Center for the Future of Arizona, has spent more than two decades leading one of the state’s top public policy think tanks studying what Arizonans want from their government and communities.