Arizona Talks Voices

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Eggs with a side of separation of powers

A Tucson restaurateur is challenging Arizona's cage-free egg mandate, and his case raises a question that reaches well past breakfast: who gets to make the law, unelected agencies or elected lawmakers?

Jon Riches 3 min read

Water

Arizona's land use and real estate questions have water law answers

Land-use and water attorneys Grady Gammage Jr. and Sean F. Krieg trace how Arizona's 1980 Groundwater Management Act tied the right to build to the right to water, and why that gate is straining under wildcat subdivisions, falling aquifers, and a shrinking Colorado River. The question was never whether Arizona grows, they write, but whether water gets priced honestly into the math.

Grady Gammage and Sean Krieg 5 min read

Democracy

We can have the elected leaders we want, need and deserve

Blake Sacha 2 min read

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Civility

Campaign like you're going to lose

Arizona Talks co-founder Jered Scrivner argues that most candidates are more likely to lose than win, and should campaign that way: on the positions they actually hold, not the ones they think will get them elected. Even a losing campaign, he writes, can push public debate somewhere more honest.

Jered Scrivner 3 min read