Recent Articles from Yellow Sheet Report
A committee of one, no more
After the Capitol Times reported that the Joint Legislative Income Tax Credit Review Committee hadn’t met since 2015, in part because of a lack of interest, Mesnard and Yarbrough each appointed five... […]
Don’t quit your day job yet
Greg Stanton told a group of labor leaders that he’s holding off on resigning as Phoenix mayor in case Sinema has second thoughts about her US Senate campaign and decides... […]
The list is getting longer
Eight male Republican lawmakers have added their names to a letter sent to Mesnard last week calling for Ugenti-Rita to be removed as chair of House ways-means and for Rios... […]
Corporate audit revenue on the decline
New audit collection revenue numbers from the Dept of Revenue are in, and they’re not pretty. According to JLBC, corporate audit collections declined from $33.7 million in FY16 to just... […]
Submit your applications to the ninth floor
Trump’s nomination of DeWit to be chief financial officer at NASA leaves Ducey with a big appointment to make, and several railbirds predicted that he will go with a placeholder... […]
Yee makes it official, jumps in for treasurer
Yee this morning announced her long-expected candidacy for state treasurer, setting up a GOP primary battle with Forese and upending the political chessboard in LD20. To read more on this... […]
Two Davids walk into an election…
Strategists are skeptical of David Schapira’s calculus that, based on the results of the 2014 contest between Douglas and David Garcia, the superintendent’s race is much narrower than the registration... […]
The David Schapira equation
The prevailing wisdom is that any Democrat running for a statewide office in Arizona has to climb two huge mountains – a sizable voter registration gap (162,000 as of the... […]
Everything depends on Yee
Boyer said he will “absolutely run for the Senate” in LD20 if Yee enters the race for state treasurer. “If she moves early, I’ll leave early with her,” he told... […]
It’s bad, but it could have been so much worse
Former Rep. Jesus Rubalcava’s financial woes stemming from his Clean Elections violations didn’t end with the $17,459 he must repay (YS, 8/22). At its Thursday meeting, the Clean Elections Commission... […]
Eat, drink and be merry, for the budget depends on it
The state saw increases in its sales tax revenue last month, but those gains were offset by losses in corporate income tax revenue, JLBC said in its monthly fiscal highlights,... […]
Can you hear that sigh of relief from the ninth floor?
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled today that a hospital assessment used to fund Medicaid expansion, and which effectively pays for the insurance of some 400,000 Arizonans, is not a tax... […]