A string of vetoes is making some Republican legislators wonder if they should turn to Magic 8-Balls, tarot cards and tea leaves next session if they want to know what Gov. Jan Brewer will think of their bills.

Three experts talk about what the Valley needs to boost the economy and get the engines of economic development revved up again.

A plan viewed by supporters as a second jobs bill cleared another legislative hurdle, but a provision expanding tax credits for new jobs might have to wait until next year.

The ink is barely dry on Arizona Competitiveness Package, but business groups and Republican lawmakers have at least one more batch of economic incentives they hope to push through the Legislature this session.

Supporters of the Arizona Commerce Authority say public-private economic development agencies play important practical and psychological roles in attracting new jobs to the state.

Shuffling the state’s ineffectual Commerce Department into a public-private economic development collaboration called the Arizona Commerce Authority is an attention-grabbing maneuver that, history teaches, will fall short of propelling Arizona out of its economic doldrums.

Arizona’s business community isn’t the monolithic entity that some people make it out to be, but Todd Sanders sees more unity now than ever.

A Chinese solar-panel manufacturer's decision to put its North American headquarters and about 150 jobs in Arizona shows that a law providing tax credits will boost the state's appeal to renewable energy firms, Gov. Jan Brewer said Nov. 16.

The year is 2012. Arizona, in its quest to attract businesses to the state, has cut taxes and decreased regulation. But the flood of corporate investment the state's leaders expected has not come, and the businesses they hoped to attract now reside in places such as North Carolina, Texas and California.

Picture a horde of California’s most successful business owners standing on the western bank of the Colorado River, peering longingly across the water. For years they’ve run their offices and factories in the Golden State, but high taxes and burdensome regulations have taken their toll.