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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 $6.1 million in FY17, an 82-percent drop. To read more ...

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 who won’t run for a full term next year. To ...

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 item plus all the stories in the Nov. 29 Yellow Sheet Report, ...

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 and performance gap between the major parties would otherwise suggest. ...

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 last count) and the GOP’s historical over-performance compared to the ...

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 our reporter today. To read more on this item plus ...

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 voted unanimously – commissioners Amy Chan and Steve Titla were ...

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, which it released today (LINK). To read more on this ...

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 and did not require the Legislature’s supermajority vote. To read ...

Libertarian Barry Hess is preparing to launch his fifth consecutive gubernatorial campaign. Hess said he’s gotten some pressure to run for Flake’s seat instead, but that it has little appeal to him. To read more on this item plus all ...