As Phoenix politicians continue in their endless quest to revive downtown business and create a hip nightlife, the most important thing they can do is to keep the city bureaucracy out of the way.

AFP- Arizona created its Tax Pledge with the hope of preventing some of the low scores that so many Arizona officials earned on its first annual scorecard. Too many local government officials seemed to be operating under the assumption no one was watching them...

As House appropriations chairman Russell Pearce explained in an op-ed in Saturday's Tribune, the only good way out of the state's current fiscal train wreck is to reduce spending to more reasonable levels.

Kudos to Sen. Jim Waring for introducing SB 1061, which would prohibit elected officials from using taxpayer dollars to promote themselves in government-funded advertisements.