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In letting the Senate’s audit drag on as auditors demand more subpoenaed materials, Senate President Karen Fann has managed to delay a fight within her caucus over how to handle the eventual results.

The public may soon get some answers about funding and other mysteries that supporters of the Arizona Senate’s audit of the 2020 election have been trying to keep hidden.

Months after the Senate lifted other Covid restrictions, doing away with requirements to wear masks or keep distance at meetings, the building remained locked and historically public caucus meetings continued being held behind closed doors.

While efforts to broadly expand Empowerment Scholarship Account, or vouchers, eligibility failed this year, school choice advocates found other reasons to celebrate the legislative session.

I quickly noticed some obvious parallels between the politics of my old home and my new one.

The 2021 budget was the worst that Senate Minority Leader Rebecca Rios can remember from the three decades she spent in and out of the Legislature.

In her second term as Senate president, Karen Fann controlled a one-vote Senate majority and oversaw a side audit of 2020 election results that drew national headlines and derision from late-night comedians.

In a recent interview with the Arizona Capitol Times, House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, discussed the highlights and disappointments of the 2021 session.

The Legislature actually took voter suppression and voter restriction laws to a whole ‘nother level.

The third longest legislative session in state history provided more time for Gov. Doug Ducey to accomplish all the priorities he laid out in his January State of the State speech, but most of them happened before the 100-day mark.