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GOP argument: Lawmakers’ duty is to expand economy, not protect state revenues
While business groups cheer the massive tax cuts passed in the loftily titled Arizona Competitiveness Package — known to most as the jobs bill — some people who rely on that disappearing revenue are wringing their hands over what the future may hold.
Jobs bill: smooth start, feisty middle, undramatic passage — like a budget plan
The day-by-day, play-by-play account of how one of the most sweeping tax cut packages was passed.
Capitol Quotes: Feb. 18, 2011
“I honestly don’t know.” — OSPB Director John Arnold, when asked whether the jobs bill would generate more revenue than it costs the state.
2011 ‘jobs bill’: Dead then, a deal now
In 2010, a jobs bill passed the House and died, but its resurrection shows how Arizona politics gets done in 2011.
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Arizona governor signs economic development bill
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a massive economic development bill laden with business tax cuts.
Economic development bill awaits Brewer signature
A massive economic development bill laden with business tax cuts awaits Gov. Jan Brewer's expected signature.
Despite strong criticism, jobs bill passes
The jobs bill, announced on Monday and debated fiercely since, has passed the Arizona House and the Senate, even as many legislators acknowledged its flaws.
Lawmakers want to defend immigration law in court
The Arizona Legislature is asking a federal judge to let it become a party in the federal government's challenge to Arizona's controversial immigration enforcement law.
Sebelius: Arizona doesn’t need waiver to cut 250,000 people from AHCCCS
Arizona officials who spent nearly a year railing against the federal government for not allowing the state to cut its Medicaid rolls got some startling news Tuesday: Federal permission isn’t necessary for the state to drop 250,000 people from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.
Jobs bill survives late Senate debate
Despite strong objections from Democrats and some Republicans, the Senate leadership Tuesday evening pushed ahead to debate the jobs bill, a maneuver that moves the business-tax-cutting legislation closer to passage.
Having cleared the debate, the bill now goes to the full Senate for a formal “aye” or “nay” vote, which is expected on Wednesday, Feb. 16.
Whether the me[...]
Interest group ranks Arizona near the bottom in children’s health care
Arizona ranks among the lowest-performing states in the nation for children’s health coverage, riding the bottom line for access, affordability and equity, according to a national report.
Centennial expo kicks off Arizona’s 100th year with dancers, cowboys and a penny drive
A cowboy lassoed a bale of hay, flamenco dancers clapped castanets and a Navajo sounded his drum on Monday, Arizona’s 99th birthday, as Gov. Jan Brewer kicked off the countdown to the state’s centennial.
