Laurie Roberts
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Columnist for The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. Wife, mom, desert dweller.
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One last column to say thank you, Arizona
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One last column to say thank you, Arizona | Opinion
These are some of the things I'm thinking during my final few hours as a journalist.
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Key grassroots leaders in the Republican Party are spurning Sen. Jake Hoffman's call to oust state GOP Chairwoman Gina Swoboda. That's potentially bad news for Democrats.
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Finally, Republicans are standing up to the biggest bully in Arizona | Opinion
Key grassroots leaders in the Republican Party are spurning Sen. Jake Hoffman's call to oust state GOP Chairwoman Gina Swoboda. Smart move.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/09/04/gina-swoboda-arizona-republican-party-far-right/85975959007/
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Three months after her son’s drowning, social media influencer Emilie Kiser has broken her silence and said what might be the most important thing she will ever say.
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Emilie Kiser just said the most important thing she will ever say | Opinion
Emilie Kiser has broken her silence on the drowning of her son, Trigg. Her words may be the most important ones she will ever say.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/29/tiktok-influencer-emilie-kiser-trigg-drowning-pool-fence/85886072007/
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I am frequently astonished by the lengths to which some of our elected leaders will go in order to showcase their, um, smarts. But rarely have I seen a more boneheaded move than this.
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Arizona lawmaker pulls a boneheaded stunt at a school reeling from violence | Opinion
A Democratic state legislator and her daughter are accused of staging a stunt at Maryvale High School, while it reels from the murder of a student.
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She's sane. She helps Republicans win. Why isn't she running for office? | Opinion
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She's sane. She helps Republicans win. Why isn't she running for office? | Opinion
Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Gina Swoboda would make a great candidate for Arizona Secretary of State, if she chose to run.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/28/gina-swoboda-arizona-republican-party-secretary-state/85857989007/
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Karrin Taylor Robson is campaigning for Arizona governor in 2026 the same way she campaigned in 2022. Look how that turned out.
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Karrin Taylor Robson is campaigning hard on a road to nowhere | Opinion
Karrin Taylor Robson is campaigning for Arizona governor in 2026 the same way she campaigned in 2022. Look how that turned out.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/26/2026-election-karrin-taylor-robson-republican-biggs/85835965007/
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Key Arizona Republicans want to oust state GOP chairwoman Gina Swoboda because she objects to spending school voucher funds on diamonds and lingerie and other educational essentials. h/t to @CraigHarrisNews
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AZGOP leader mentions 'guardrails' for school vouchers. Now, MAGA wants her head | Opinion
State education funds were spent on diamond rings and corsets. But Arizona GOP Chairwoman Gina Swoboda is learning you don't question such things.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/21/school-voucher-esa-reform-arizona-republican-swoboda/85762178007/
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Arizona DCS had an open investigation into suspicions that 10-year-old Rebekah Baptiste was being abused. Tragically, she died before the agency could finish. I have so many questions.
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Rebekah Baptiste was taken from her dad. Then, tragically, a judge sent her home | Opinion
Arizona DCS was investigating reports that Rebekah Baptiste was being abused, but she died before the agency could finish. That raises questions.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/21/arizona-dcs-rebekah-baptiste-child-abuse/85749401007/
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President Donald Trump lives in a curious and confusing world, a place where down is up and black is white and his devoted posse plays to the fantasy that a giant conspiracy robbed him of the presidency in 2020.
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End early voting? Trump must be panicked about the midterm elections | Opinion
Donald Trump is clearly having nightmares about the 2026 midterms, when voters will weigh in on his policies. No wonder he wants to end early voting.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/19/trump-mail-in-voting-arizona-republican-midterm-election/85725062007/
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The horrific death of 11-year-old Chaskah Davis is another damned outrage. Another case of the state agency charged with protecting children instead protecting itself.
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Chaskah Davis was tortured. How could Arizona DCS say there's nothing to see? | Opinion
Chaskah Davis was tortured and killed. Yet the Arizona Department of Child Safety found multiple reports of abuse to be 'unsubstantiated.'
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/18/arizona-child-welfare-dcs-chaskah-davis-smith/85714382007/
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Before Emily, Zariah and Rebekah, there were Anndreah, Liana and Za'Naya. Please, God, let's not go there again.https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/15/child-abuse-arizona-dcs-deaths/85666162007/ via @azcentral
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If Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego succeeds in helping Democrats win in 2026, there's one person he really should thank.
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Sen. Ruben Gallego has this person to thank for making him a national figure | Opinion
Sen. Ruben Gallego is growing his national profile, talking about issues that voters care about. Kari Lake must hate that.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/12/democrats-ruben-gallego-kari-lake-2026-election/85627322007/
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Andy Biggs' daughter is right. She really shouldn't run for the Legislature | Opinion
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Andy Biggs' daughter is right. She really shouldn't run for the Legislature | Opinion
Andy Biggs' daughter, Mylie, believes women belong in the home, not in public office. Yet she is running to represent others in the Arizona Senate.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/07/andy-biggs-daughter-mylie-arizona-senate/85559735007/
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ASU shattered the rules and tradition and gave Katie Hobbs the stage after she refused to debate Kari Lake in 2022. Now we know why, and the reason should make us all gag.
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ASU's reason for helping Katie Hobbs is enough to make Cookie Monster gag | Opinion
Who cares about objectivity? ASU officials didn't like Kari Lake, so they put their thumb on the scale for Katie Hobbs in the 2022 election.
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Is an Arizona state senator's ICE alert really a federal crime?
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RIP, First Amendment, if an Arizona senator's ICE alerts are illegal | Opinion
Arizona's GOP Senate president wants an investigation of Democratic Sen. Analise Ortiz for posting where ICE agents have been seen in public.
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Twelve times, the school called the Arizona Department of Child Safety. Twelve times over the last year, school staffers raised the alarm about what was happening to one of their students. Now, she's dead.
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It's an outrage that this 10-year-old girl died on DCS' watch | Opinion
An uncle and her school repeatedly reported suspected child abuse to the Arizona Department of Child Safety. And now, a 10-year-old girl is dead.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/05/child-abuse-arizona-dcs-rebekah-baptiste/85527847007/
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Trump says vicious criminal immigrants are everywhere. Yet his administration appears to be having a hard time finding people in Arizona to prosecute, even for the crime of being in the country illegally.
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Expect payback from Trump over Arizona's immigrants in 5, 4, 3 ... | Opinion
Federal prosecutions for immigration-related crimes have sharply dropped in Arizona this summer. Trump cannot be happy about that.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/04/us-attorney-arizona-immigration-criminal-charges-trump/85511345007/
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For more than a century, mules have delivered the mail to the Grand Canyon's Supai village. It is not, as one senior Trump official called it, 'stupid.'
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Trump should keep his hands off the Grand Canyon mule train | Opinion
There are good reasons the Postal Service uses mules to deliver food and supplies to the Grand Canyon's Supai village. Nixing them would be stupid.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/08/01/usps-grand-canyon-mule-mail-delivery/85477292007/
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This wouldn’t be the first time that Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, the MAGA flag bearer who vowed to “restore honesty, transparency & integrity in our elections”, has played fast and loose with the truth.
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Justin Heap should welcome an investigation into whether he has a 'lying mouth' | Opinion
A county election official promised honesty in office. But now a county supervisor is calling for an investigation over statements he has made.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/07/31/heap-gallardo-investigation-arizona-election-truth/85460294007/
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Ex-Sen. Justine Wadsack, having left reality in her rear view window, wants Tucson to pay her $8 million for daring to cite her for speeding.
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Former Arizona senator wants Tucson to pay her $8 million. Sure, that'll happen | Opinion
Justine Wadsack is suing Tucson police for writing her a speeding ticket. Even odder than the lawsuit is how much she wants in damages.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/07/30/arizona-senator-justine-wadsack-tucson-lawsuit-speeding/85445374007/
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Here are eight more reasons why Arizona needs a Stupid Hiker Law.
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Hiking Camelback on a triple-digit day is just stupid (You listening, RFK Jr.?) | Opinion
Eight out-of-town hikers were rescued in extreme heat while hiking Camelback Mountain, a week after RFK Jr. posted his ill-advised trek to the summit.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/07/29/phoenix-mountain-rescue-camelback-hikers/85426293007/
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This Arizona school district district has money to send several hundred employees on a three-day junket to Vegas but not enough for school bus rides for kids. This is a bad look.
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This district just gave Arizona lawmakers even more fuel to burn public schools | Opinion
Dysart slashed bus service for kids, then sent nearly 200 employees to Las Vegas - and made it harder for other public schools to ask for more money.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/07/28/dysart-buses-vegas-conference-arizona-school-funding/85412826007/
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Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Account program is exploding. But curiously, the staff to review how our money is being spent isn't.
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Who's watching how $1 billion is spent on ESAs? Answer: Hardly anybody | Opinion
Arizona's universal school voucher program has exploded since 2022. Yet the same 12 staffers are reviewing ESA expenses. What gets through the cracks?
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/07/28/school-voucher-esa-costs-arizona-review/85398944007/?fbclid=IwY2xjawL0ZVhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpPatJeq-P7CJeObb68y5PHCz1j_5Fq0MFqdqt_3sTK8m52662Q4-db-MdMy_aem_J0u84e7B3Dcoxg-Z_Sqcaw
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Gov. Katie Hobbs' former appointee has snagged yet another cushy state contract at DES. This, as DES employees are being laid off.
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Gov. Katie Hobbs needs a better answer for her pal's job as others lose theirs | Opinion
Why is Dana Allmond still on the payroll for $170,000 when other Arizona employees are losing their jobs? It's a fair question to ask.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/07/10/katie-hobbs-dana-allmond-des-contract-veterans/84535019007/
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Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego is heading to the Iowa State Fair in August. With six whole months in the Senate, he certainly doesn't lack ambition.
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Is the right message enough to make an unknown Arizona senator president? | Opinion
Ruben Gallego has six months in the Senate. But he's already making the pilgrimage to Iowa, presumably to get a jump on the competition for president.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/07/10/ruben-gallego-iowa-president-2028-election-democrats/84526460007/
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Arizona parents have stockpiled nearly $450 million in unused public funds in their Empowerment Scholarship Accounts. If they don't need public money to educate their kids, shouldn't we get it back? h/t to @CraigHarrisNews
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Thousands of Arizona parents are hoarding your cash. Think they'll give it back? | Opinion
Arizona parents have stockpiled nearly $450 million in unused public funds in their ESAs. Yet we can't get it back.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/07/09/arizona-esa-school-voucher-funding-unused/84519949007/
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Rep. Abe Hamadeh insists the One Big Beautiful Bill Act 'includes no cuts to Medicare.' He must think his constituents are really stupid.
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Rep. Abe Hamadeh says no Medicaid cuts? He's not fooling anyone | Opinion
Technically, the Big Beautiful Bill Act doesn't kick poor people off Medicaid. But it adds red tape meant to push them off, and that hurts Arizona.
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Turning Point Action called these Arizona GOP legislators traitors to the country. Well, goodness. Next we'll find out they think it's OK for women to work.
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These 4 Arizona Republican legislators are traitors? Turning Point USA said so. | Opinion
According to Turning Point Action, Arizona's Republican officeholders are mostly 'former patriots' ... or worse.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/07/07/arizona-turning-point-usa-legislature-republican-patriot/84492193007/
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With Arizona’s GOP congressmen now having voted for Trump’s massive budget, walk with me now on a big-beautiful stroll down memory lane. It's a pleasant trip, if you can avoid stepping in the steaming piles of hypocrisy.
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Arizona's GOP congressmen deliver one big, beautiful pile of hypocrisy | Opinion
Arizona's Republican congressmen were against increasing the national debt ...until Donald Trump said jump and they proceeded to leap with abandon.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/07/03/arizona-republicans-trump-big-beautiful-bill-debt-tax/84464814007/
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Move over, alligators. Sen. Wendy Rogers and her MAGA warrior pals want an Alligator Alcatraz, too. But with snakes and scorpions. (Pay no attention to the fact that most detained immigrants have never even been convicted of a crime.)
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Nothing says 'freedom' like MAGA pushing for an Arizona concentration camp | Opinion
The Arizona Republicans pushing for a desert version of Alligator Alcatraz seem eager to throw immigrants with no criminal record to the rattlesnakes.
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Every Arizona Republican member of Congress rails against the soaring national debt. Then, they vote to boost it. Tell me again why we should believe a word they say?
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Just how high will Arizona Republicans jump to hike our big, beautiful debt? | Opinion
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will increase the national debt by trillions. But that doesn't bother Arizona's self-professed fiscal hawk Republicans.
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Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap vowed to restore voters' trust in elections. I doubt these 83,000 voters probably are buying it.
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Imagine the howling if a non-MAGA elections chief had made this mistake | Opinion
Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap mistakenly told 83,000 voters they would be kicked off a list, yet the election conspiracy crowd stayed silent.
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Ah, summertime in the Arizona desert, where the temperature is passing blast furnace and approaching jaws of hell. What a perfect time to take a hike! Isn't it finally time for a Stupid Hikers Law?
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More idiot hikers rescued? Arizona needs a Stupid Hiker Law | Opinion
The families rescued from hiking in the heat should not have to pay for their stupidity with their lives. But they should have to use their wallets.
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The story of Idaho firefighters ambushed while battling a fire hits particularly hard in Arizona on a grim anniversary.
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Arizona has 2 words for firefighters shot in Idaho | Opinion
The murder of 2 firefighters in Idaho comes as Arizona mourns the anniversary of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, who died battling wildfire.
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Arizona's legislative session has (mercifully) ended. But not before winners were crowned and losers got burned.
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Making laws in Arizona was a dumpster fire. Here's who got burned | Opinion
Arizona's legislative session culminated with a weeks-long budget showdown that could have transpired in Tombstone.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/30/arizona-legislature-winners-losers-budget-diamondbacks/84415269007/
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Now that the House has approved the budget, the dumpster fire that is the 2025 Arizona Legislature will soon head home with a list of accomplishments that is embarrassingly small.
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The 2025 Arizona Legislature was a dumpster fire | Opinion
Gov. Katie Hobbs and the Arizona Legislature don't have much to show for the 165 days of what should've been a 100-day legislative session.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/27/arizona-legislature-hobbs-budget-session-sine-die/84383478007/
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The world got a good look at Kari Lake at a congressional hearing on the Voice of America. All I can say is, sorry world.
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Kari Lake's smear of Arizona Rep. Greg Stanton is vintage Lake | Opinion
When Rep. Greg Stanton confronted Kari Lake with facts, she deflected with insults and went on the attack. Arizona has seen this many times before.
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Arizona state government is five days away from a shutdown, and House Speaker Steve Montenegro is still living in fantasyland.
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Don't blame Gov. Hobbs for Arizona's sham budget or the shutdown it will cause | Opinion
Arizona House leaders are trying to blame a state government shutdown on Gov. Katie Hobbs, despite refusing to negotiate with her on the budget.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/25/arizona-budget-government-shutdown-hobbs-montenegro/84351542007/
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The Arizona Diamondbacks has scored a massive victory, snookering the state of Arizona into giving the team a grand slam of a subsidy that's worth far more than advertised.
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That DBacks giveaway isn't really $500 million. It's A LOT more | Opinion
The Arizona Diamondbacks just held us hostage for $1.2 billion. And Gov. Katie Hobbs says she's 'thrilled.'
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/24/arizona-diamondbacks-chase-field-renovation-legislature-hobbs/84333750007/
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If Arizona state government shuts down, blame the House speaker and its shadow speaker.
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7 days until Arizona government shuts down. Here is who to blame | Opinion
Arizona's House speaker is so terrified of one GOP senator that he's willing to shut down state government instead of approve a negotiated budget.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/23/arizona-budget-government-shutdown-house-republicans/84307408007/
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The Arizona Senate passed a bipartisan budget, one negotiated with ... gulp ... Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. House GOP whining to commence in 5, 4, 3 ...
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House Republicans should depart 'fantasyland' and pass Senate budget | Opinion
The Arizona Freedom Caucus must be feeling run over after their Republican colleagues in the Senate passed a budget negotiated with Gov. Katie Hobbs.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/20/arizona-freedom-caucus-republican-senate-budget/84288595007/
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It's goodie time at the state Capitol, where Maricopa County Republican lawmakers are hoping to sneak into the budget a $514% boost in daily pay for their non-existent expenses.
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Our leaders hoping to sneak a $215-a-day pay raise into the budget. Not cool | Opinion
Maricopa County lawmakers hoping to give themselves an outrageous pay boost | Opinion
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ESAs are paying for things like piano lessons and dance and gymnastics classes, per @CraigHarrisNews. It's ridiculous, and our leaders have no intention of stopping it.
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Poor rich kids. They (still) need our help to pay for their piano lessons | Opinion
Mostly well-to-do parents are about to gallop away with $1 billion in public money as Arizona's universal school voucher program continues to explode.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/18/esa-universal-school-voucher-reform-arizona/84261748007/
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Trigg Kiser died because nobody was watching him. It's a brutal thing to say. It is also the truth, and soon other young Arizona children will follow him into a far-too-early grave.
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Don't tiptoe around why Emilie Kiser's son drowned | Opinion
Trigg Kiser died because nobody was watching him. It's a brutal thing to say. It is also the truth.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/17/trigg-kiser-drowned-brady-emilie-water-safety/84243952007/
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The for-profit utility that scored $600 million in profits last year wants a 14% rate hike - not to be confused with last year's 8% rate hike or an 8% hike the year before that.
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APS wants more of your money. Who's looking out for customers? | Opinion
No doubt, APS will get the rate hike it wants, plus higher profits, thanks in part to an Arizona regulatory agency filled with rubber stamps.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/16/arizona-public-service-rate-case-electric-bill-profit/84229706007/
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While the world marvels that a man walked away from a deadly Air India crash, we in Arizona remember another sole survivor - a 4-year-old girl with purple nail polish.
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What Arizona's own sole survivor might tell the survivor of an Air India crash | Opinion
The world grieves as it marvels the sole survivor of an Air India plane crash. Just like Arizona did in 1987 for sole survivor Cecelia Cichan.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/13/air-india-sole-survivor-cecelia-cichan-guilt/84176930007/
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Superintendent Tom Horne, with the hard right nipping at his heels, says Scottsdale’s new high school history book is too “woke”. Then he admits he hasn’t read it.
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Arizona schools chief says history book (that he hasn't read) is too 'woke' | Opinion
Superintendent Tom Horne has threatened to sic the Trump administration on Scottsdale schools for teaching a 'leftist' view of history. But is it?
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/12/tom-horne-scottsdale-history-book-woke-dei/84166272007/
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Axon says it offered a “great deal” to Scottsdale. Reducing your project from 1,882 apartments and condos to 1,700 apartments and condos is a great deal?
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Scottsdale might as well sue Arizona over its outrageous gift to Axon | Opinion
Axon's president claims the Taser manufacturer 'put a great deal on the table' to appease Scottsdale. As if 1,700 apartments were a 'great deal.'
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/11/axon-headquarters-scottsdale-lawsuit-apartments/84141126007/
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The hard right has a new 'victim.' Ex-Rep. Austin Smith, one of Arizona's election integrity warriors, has been indicted on charges of election fraud. Oh, the irony.
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He called for election integrity, then was indicted for fraud. Oh, the irony | Opinion
Former Arizona Rep. Austin Smith's indictment should be a blow to the election conspiracy crowd. I doubt it'll even slow them down.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/10/austin-smith-indicted-election-fraud-signatures/84134000007/
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Gov. Katie Hobbs has proposed a plan that would actually bar China and our other enemies from buying land near Arizona military bases. But is the Legislature more interested in hobbling China or hobbling Hobbs?
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Gov. Katie Hobbs goes on offense against China and the Legislature | Opinion
Republicans excoriated Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs for vetoing a bill that claimed to outlaw Chinese land ownership but didn't. Then, Hobbs clapped back.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2025/06/09/arizona-governor-katie-hobbs-china-land-republicans/84121730007/
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