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Hero or Pied Piper?
Every industrialized country on Earth delivers health care to its people at a far lower per-person cost than the United States. How do they do that?
It’s time to shine light on wasteful spending at the local level
When Phoenix realized that it faced a projected $245 million budget shortfall for the coming fiscal year, new City Manager David Cavazos requested that every department submit proposed budget reductions ranging from 7 to 25 percent. Those proposals were placed on his desk in November and early December. But when the Goldwater Institute asked for them, they disappeared into a black hole.
Republicans made reckless decisions; now vote them out
Seriously, are you happy with Arizona's leadership? I'm not. There's not a lot to be happy about right now. Arizona has become the only state in the union to eliminate its Children's Health Insurance Program, KidsCare.
Passage of Prop. 100 will signal voter permission to raise taxes even higher
A recent survey found that 71 percent of Arizona small-business owners oppose passage of Proposition 100, the one-cent sales tax on the May 18 special election ballot. Our entrepreneurs and job-creators know instinctively that this tax increase is a bad deal for Arizona and the start, not the end, of further bad public policy decisions.
Support for payday lenders grows where money flows
In the March 5 edition of the Arizona Capitol Times, three of the state's chambers of commerce ran a full-page ad on page 2 supporting the "short-term consumer financing industry," or in English, the payday lenders.
Keep the public noticed
If public notices were not published in newspapers, the community would not know about hearings, requests for proposals, companies that are forming and other actions by government.
Western Union settlement a turning point in smuggling war
Our $94 million settlement with Western Union ranks as one of the most important legal agreements in Arizona's history.
Adoption bill doesn’t exclude single adults
In the Feb. 5 edition of the Arizona Capitol Times, the story headlined "Married parents would get preference in Adoptions" stated that H2148 would prohibit the Arizona Department of Economic Security from "approving an adoption by a single adult unless no qualified married couple was available."
Support for employer sanctions was sarcastic
It was a bit of surprise to see that a has-been like me was mentioned in an article in the Arizona Capitol Times (‘I hate this bill and I vote aye', January 25, 2010). I guess there must be very little happening at the Legislature.
Changes to revenue-sharing system would devastate cities
If anyone doubts the state's troubled economy is clobbering Arizona's cities and towns, they only have to look in the newspaper. "Phoenix details plan for drastic cutbacks;" "Cities, towns resort to layoffs;" "Falling revenues affect city of Prescott operations."
Oregon stepped up, so can Arizona
In the face of a crippling national recession that has driven down state revenues by historic proportions, Arizona is not alone in facing stark choices about priorities for our present and our future.
Arizonans play crucial role in bringing aid to Haiti
Lt. Meredith Doran peers at her computer monitor at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and sees the pain of Haiti.
