The Empowerment Scholarship Account program hate groups want to make this week's issue about money! Their “slush fund” argument is ridiculous and falls flat quickly when looking at the facts.

Maricopa County taxpayers have a ticking time bomb on their hands. MIHS, the county hospital system, is an antiquated model in financial disarray.

Two Arizona congressmen are applauding news that top administrators at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care Center now are on administrative leave amid allegations of gross mismanagement and neglect at the facility.

This week's most outstanding quips, gibes and utterances from Arizona's political scene.

A report examining more than 400 sex-crime cases that were inadequately investigated or not looked into at all by an Arizona sheriff's office attributes the failures to understaffing and mismanagement, including hundreds of pieces of evidence intended for storage that were instead left in offices or taken home by detectives.