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The Breakdown: Kicking up dust
It’s junket season in Arizona, and lawmakers spent their week talking policy in Scottsdale and Puerto Rico.
The Breakdown: HOBB-ling toward 2020
The Arizona Secretary of State’s campaign finance websites are broken.
The Breakdown: Budget talks already?
Republican leaders in the House and Senate are forging ahead with plans to draft a budget by the end of the year, reasserting authority they say their predecessors ceded to the governor’s office years ago.
The Breakdown: Taxes for everyone
Invest In Ed was thrown off the ballot in 2018, but now it’s coming back and educating groups want to increase the sales tax to help pay for schools — even though the group previously opposed a regressive tax.
The Breakdown: Keeping it clean
A new ballot measure aims to make voting easier and take big money out of politics, but its backers, who have been against dark money in the past, won’t commit to turning down dark money for their own campaign.
The Breakdown: Going courting
On this edition of The Breakdown, our reporters discuss Mark Brnovich, Criminal Justice Reform, and Gov. Doug Ducey's latest court appointment.
The Breakdown: On Wednesdays we have news
Maricopa County “top cop” Bill Montgomery’s got a new job, and while he’s trying on black robes half the lawyers in Phoenix are gunning for his old one.
The Breakdown: Runnin’ dirty
Thousands of Arizona women could have to choose between paying more for health care or driving long distances to receive it after Planned Parenthood withdrew from a federal funding program.
The Breakdown: High stakes
Marijuana advocates are launching a new effort to legalize the drug. What’s changed since 2016?
The Breakdown: Unanswered questions
Governor Ducey’s early-morning tweetstorm yanking financial incentives from Nike may have exceeded his own authority.
The Breakdown: Between the lines
One Democratic lawmaker wants to spend 2020 tackling a unique form of gerrymandering, and argues that inmates in Arizona prisoners shouldn’t count towards the population of the legislative district that the prison is drawn in.
The Breakdown: A new dawn
A federal court awarded a former Senate staffer $1 million after a jury ruled she was discriminated against based on her race.
