Weekender: Let the voters decide

The Arizona Legislature adjourned for the year early Saturday morning, after four days of rapid-fire votes on hundreds of pieces of legislation and a marathon last day that saw Republicans send a series of measures to the November ballot in the hopes that voters let them enact policies Gov. Katie Hobbs won’t.

Legislators started the day around 10:30 a.m. and voted on many of the proposals late into the night, when most of their constituents were likely asleep or had stopped paying attention…

In the final hours of the annual legislative session, Republican lawmakers pushed through a ballot referral that, if approved by voters, would nullify two citizen-led initiatives aimed at regulating the state’s billion-dollar school voucher program.

The move came after a failed last-ditch effort to avoid a public vote on the voucher program led by the Arizona Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union. That proposal would have…

Legislators from both sides of the aisle tripped over one another on Thursday to take credit for provisions of the new state budget that might be popular with their constituents and to blame the opposition for portions that could cause heartburn.

After a day of patting themselves and other members of their parties on the back and lobbing insults at the opposing party, a bipartisan majority…

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