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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?
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.
Leaders of Save Our Schools Arizona and the Arizona Education Association make the case that universal ESA vouchers are draining the public schools most families still choose—and lay out the ballot measure to rein them in.
The bipartisan town hall has all but disappeared from Arizona politics. A freshman legislator decided to hold three anyway, and found that civility still holds when voters get room to be heard.
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