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Stories by Jim Small
Posted Apr 21, 2022, 4:43 pm
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that voters cannot determine the fate of a flat tax proposal that Republican lawmakers and Gov. Doug Ducey championed last year and designed to blunt the effect of the Invest in Education Act on wealthy Arizonans.... Read more»
Posted Apr 19, 2022, 4:09 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
A handful of Arizona Republican candidates who have built national profiles by embracing former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election found their campaigns getting a big financial boost from voters outside Arizona.... Read more»
Posted Apr 13, 2022, 10:59 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Democrats have launched a digital ad campaign in Arizona to remind voters in advance of Tax Day of a GOP plan - touted by Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott - that would raise taxes on half of Americans and an estimated 34% of Arizonans.... Read more»
Posted Apr 7, 2022, 4:43 pm
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
The combination of state tax collections that continue to exceed expectations and a recent court ruling striking down a voter-approved tax increase to spend more money on public schools means that Arizona lawmakers will have almost $5.3 billion in surplus revenue in the upcoming budget.... Read more»
Posted Apr 7, 2022, 9:28 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
The deadline for candidates to qualify for the 2022 Arizona ballot was April 4, and a total of 292 candidates filed enough signatures from voters to earn a chance to win over voters in the Aug. 2 primary election - here's the list.... Read more»
Posted Feb 28, 2022, 3:09 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona Sen. Wendy Rogers fawned over the leader of a white nationalist movement on Friday and told his followers that she fantasizes about hanging her perceived enemies from gallows in her speech to the white nationalist America First Political Action Conference in Florida.... Read more»
Posted Feb 14, 2022, 10:04 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
It’s impossible to overstate just how lawless and dangerous Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich showed himself to be when he issued a flagrantly political legal opinion that all but dares Gov. Doug Ducey to declare a literal war and send troops to the border.... Read more»
Posted Feb 7, 2022, 1:39 pm
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona AG Brnovich says Gov. Ducey would be on solid constitutional ground if he invoked war powers and sent the Arizona National Guard to the U.S-Mexico border to stop what he says is an "invasion" of drug cartels and criminal gangs.... Read more»
Posted Feb 1, 2022, 11:42 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona Republicans are wistful for days gone past, and they’re determined to do everything they can to catapult the state backwards in pursuit of winding back the clock. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 23, 2022, 5:39 pm
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona Democrats formally censured Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Saturday for her vote to preserve the filibuster and refusal to join her Democratic colleagues in carving out an exception to the 60-vote threshold to allow a voting rights bill to pass.... Read more»
Posted Jan 20, 2022, 11:56 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
There’s been near unanimity among political analysts and talking heads that Kyrsten Sinema’s obstruction on the filibuster all but destroys her chances of getting re-elected as a Democrat, but any analysis that writes Sinema’s political obituary underestimates how shrewd she is.... Read more»
Posted Jan 10, 2022, 6:24 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
With near-record COVID-19 caseloads and hospitalizations driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant sweeping Arizona, the state legislature will convene Jan. 10 with almost no restrictions in place aimed at limiting spread of the virus at the Capitol.... Read more»
Posted Dec 9, 2021, 9:23 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Marijuana sales in Arizona hit record highs in October, with nearly $58 million in estimated sales of recreational cannabis for the month, up from the previous record for adult-use marijuana sales in July, when dispensaries sold $54.5 million of cannabis. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 8, 2021, 4:05 pm
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
A new report from state health officials found that unvaccinated Arizonans were nearly four times more likely to test positive for COVID-19 in October and were more than 15 times more likely to die from the illness than vaccinated people.... Read more»
Posted Sep 28, 2021, 4:38 pm
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Kari Lake has carried the mantle of Donald Trump as she has surged to the forefront of the Republican primary for governor, and she now gets to carry the former president’s endorsement, as well.... Read more»
Posted Sep 21, 2021, 6:05 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona State Rep. Aaron Lieberman, a Democrat from Paradise Valley, resigned his seat to focus on his campaign for governor - where he faces Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and former Arizona Department of Commerce Director Marco Lopez for the Democratic nomination.... Read more»