Sitemap - 2023 - Robert Robb

The wages of wokeism become clearer

A state budget preview

Crow, MAGA legislators, and free speech

National security starts with a credible nuclear deterrent and missile defense

Lessons for a Prop. 123 extension

Hoffman, Freedom Caucus, expand Arizona's welfare state

Podcast: Do U.S. House Republicans even have an interest in governing?

The Political Notebook 11.3.23

Thinking through Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan

Where's a $2.5 billion surplus when you need it?

The Political Notebook 10.13.23

Virtually entire Arizona Commerce Authority is an anti-subsidy clause violation

The Political Notebook 10.6.23

Hobbs' confirmation bypass creates legal minefield

Budget dysfunctions are the wages of excessive partisanship

Pence's speech didn't fully express the extent of the GOP's decrepitude

Horne on the right track with Covid ed funds

No security guarantees for Saudi Arabia

DeSantis should drop out of the prez race

Podcast: Does free enterprise have support in either major political party?

Sinema, the "I-delivered-the-bacon" candidate

The State of Opinion Journalism

Shouldn't matter if Trump believed his election fraud claims

Hobbs' misleading voucher memo

Ukraine should be a 2024 election issue, particularly in Arizona

How state GOP lawmakers blew a $2.5 billion surplus

PGA Tour brass tossed in the towel too soon

Continued confusion about the Constitution and race

Kris Mayes's disappointing start

Richer's lawsuit leaves Lake with no place to hide

DeSantis is blowing his opportunity ... and perhaps ours

A mealy-mouthed reaction to cutting off groundwater to new subdivisions

Podcast: Is Trump inevitable?

A thank you to Bill Gates

Not the way to use price to allocate Colorado River shortages

Stephen Richer for U.S. Senate?

An attempt to restore judicial restraint

Thinking about AI regulation

Budget Notes 5.12.23

This is not an adult way to manage a $6 trillion enterprise

Did Mayes run for AG or Guv?

Trump could beat Biden in a rematch

Inching toward water markets

The Political Notebook 4.21.23

When should the U.S. fight?

A final plea: Go with top-two, not ranked choice

Judges shouldn't be deciding homeless policy

Don't compete with China over Africa

The fight over schools

Don't play the Saudi game

Sinema joins the Silicon Valley Bank blame game

Is Sinema to blame for the failure of Silicon Valley Bank?

Yelling "socialism" won't get the job done

Is there any idea too dumb to pass?

A constitutional backstop budget is a good idea

Managing Hobbs' political brand

Thinking about the end game in Ukraine

The credibility crisis on the right

Let's have a Covid policy amnesty

Podcast: Can the legislative session be salvaged?

Read the column banned by Facebook

Biden's unlimited national government

The Political Notebook 2.10.23

Petersen declares war on Hobbs

The Political Notebook 2.3.23

The rationale behind Arizona's set of spending limits, including on schools

The Political Notebook 1.27.23

Podcast: Where are Arizona politics headed?

Debt ceiling isn't the place for a spending fight

The Political Notebook 1.20.23

Hobbs' budget is cautiously liberal

Can we have a productive discussion about border security and immigration?

The Mayes Effect

Of Hayek, abortion, and opioids

Stanton, Gallego dance on Southwest's bones