One last column to say thank you, Arizona www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

She's sane. She helps Republicans win. Why isn't she running for office? | Opinion www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

Karrin Taylor Robson is campaigning for Arizona governor in 2026 the same way she campaigned in 2022. Look how that turned out. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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 www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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

If Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego succeeds in helping Democrats win in 2026, there's one person he really should thank. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

Andy Biggs' daughter is right. She really shouldn't run for the Legislature | Opinion www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

Is an Arizona state senator's ICE alert really a federal crime? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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.' www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

Here are eight more reasons why Arizona needs a Stupid Hiker Law. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Account program is exploding. But curiously, the staff to review how our money is being spent isn't. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

Gov. Katie Hobbs' former appointee has snagged yet another cushy state contract at DES. This, as DES employees are being laid off. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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 www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

Rep. Abe Hamadeh insists the One Big Beautiful Bill Act 'includes no cuts to Medicare.' He must think his constituents are really stupid. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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.) www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral.com

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? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap vowed to restore voters' trust in elections. I doubt these 83,000 voters probably are buying it. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

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? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

The story of Idaho firefighters ambushed while battling a fire hits particularly hard in Arizona on a grim anniversary. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

Arizona's legislative session has (mercifully) ended. But not before winners were crowned and losers got burned. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

Arizona state government is five days away from a shutdown, and House Speaker Steve Montenegro is still living in fantasyland. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

If Arizona state government shuts down, blame the House speaker and its shadow speaker. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

The Arizona Senate passed a bipartisan budget, one negotiated with ... gulp ... Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. House GOP whining to commence in 5, 4, 3 ... www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

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? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral