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Rio Verde Scrambles to Keep Its Head Above Water Amidst Southwest Megadrought

Feb 28, 2023

By Ian Balitis. The Arizona Megadrought Ninety percent of the world’s population lives within six and a half miles of a surface freshwater body. This comes as no surprise considering the essential role water plays in human life. Access to…

Arizona Now Has a Flat State Income Tax—Will It Serve Arizona Right?

Feb 22, 2023

By Dallas Fox. Arizona's Past and Current Income Tax System Long is the debate on whether state income tax should be split into different tax brackets, kept at a single flat rate, or eliminated entirely. Prior to former Arizona Governor…

Dragging Out the Inevitable: Arizona’s Proposed Drag Laws and their Constitutional Issues

Feb 20, 2023

By Evan Ridley. Amidst a wave of anti-LGBTQ bills currently being brought around the nation, Arizona now has multiple bills in the State Senate proposing to restrict drag performances. Since January, State Senators have introduced four separate bills looking to…

Super Bowl LVII: Touchdown for Arizona Residents and the Freedom of Speech

Feb 14, 2023

By Tatum Weight. In a desolate land, thwarted by the scorching sun, spectators from surrounding nations convened by the masses. Some traveled by day and night, journeying thousands of miles to observe the annual phenomenon; others fixed their tents outside the…

Are Mail-In Ballots “Secret”? Arizona Court of Appeals Says Yes

Feb 08, 2023

By William Harren. In 2020, litigation over mail-in voting exploded across the country. Concern about COVID-19 forced many voters to stay home and resulted in a record number of absentee ballots. Lawsuits began to percolate as Republicans and Democrats jockeyed for…

Mishandling Panhandling: Proposals to Address Arizona’s Homelessness Crisis

Feb 06, 2023

By Mary Saxon.Arizona has one of the worst homelessness crises in the country. Despite this, Senator John Kavanagh of Fountain Hills recently introduced a pair of bills, Senate Bill 1022 and Senate Bill 1024, which criminalize homelessness. Senate Bill 1022,…

House Bill Offers State Benefits for Pregnant Women Barred from Seeking an Abortion: Will It Survive?

Jan 30, 2023

By Katharine Greer. ‘Tis the season for bills. On January 9th, the Arizona State Legislature opened with forty-one new members and a new governor. Representatives and Senators are excitedly plopping their bills in their respective hoppers. As of January 25th,…

Arizona Prop. 211 Passes, Requiring Political Committees Taking Out Ads to Disclose Their Donors in Certain Circumstances

Dec 05, 2022

By Chris Shanley.Arizona residents voted overwhelmingly to approve Proposition 211 at the ballot box on November 8, 2022. The passing of Proposition 211 now requires that independent expenditure committees spending $50,000 or more on a statewide campaign or $25,000 or…

An Early Affirmative End to Affirmative Action in College Admissions

Nov 30, 2022

By Anthony Gonnella.On Halloween morning, October 31, 2022, the Supreme Court heard two cases challenging affirmative action policies in college admissions: Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. Petitioners are…

The CRIT Water Resiliency Act: Water Can Flow or It Can Crash

Nov 26, 2022

By Clayton Kinsey.Water, water, water! If you follow the news, presumably you’ve run into a piece about the Colorado River and/or Arizona’s dire water situation. If not, many of my colleagues have highlighted important issues such as the consequences of…

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