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Will the Arizona House finally give voters a say on in-state tuition for 'Dreamers'? Denny Barney and Sintra Hoffman 'Dreamers' deserve legal status. Republicans don't get that Replay Video Sometimes good policy and good politics converge.  The state House on Monday takes up Senate Concurrent Resolution 1044, which will let voters the decide whether to give the children of undocumented immigrants, sometimes called “Dreamers,” or DACA kids, the opportunity to attend college on the same tuition basis as their peers. They must attend an Arizona high school for at least two...

Kyrsten Sinema could be the 50th vote for — or against — Biden's ambitious agenda. So what does she want? Andrew Romano Last week, President Biden came before Congress to kick-start the next phase of his presidency, calling on lawmakers to pass $4.1 trillion worth of legislation meant to modernize America’s infrastructure, combat climate change, expand education and shore up the safety net for working families — “a fundamental reorientation of the role of government not seen since the days of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society and Roosevelt’s New Deal,” in the w...

The left should level with the American people about financing the European-style social democracy they are attempting to establish. That begins with jettisoning President Joe Biden’s fiction that his proposed massive increase in the federal government’s role in the economy and in American life can be paid for without any tax increase on those earning less than $400,000 a year. All of this is well illustrated by what he proposes to do with the child tax credit. This isn't a limited, anti-poverty program  Before the pandemic, the tax credit was $2,000 per child, applicable against income ...

The claim: Parents in Vail, Arizona, took over the school board and removed the mask mandate A group of parents protesting mask mandates recently swarmed a Vail Unified School District meeting in Arizona, sparking online claims of a school board takeover by the group.  The protest followed Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey's April 19 announcement rescinding the statewide order that directed K-12 schools to require masks. This gave districts the option to implement their own face-covering policies, which the Vail school board was planning to discuss before the meeting was canceled due to safety...

President Biden has promised an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system that would include legalizing the roughly 700,000 young immigrants known as “Dreamers.” But Biden can’t even get support in the evenly divided Congress to legalize them, let alone anyone else. We can only hope that Biden eventually drums up enough backing, but we shouldn’t wait idly for that to happen. Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers can give “Dreamers” a dose of hope. He can’t legalize them, of course, but he can at least let his fellow state lawmakers vote on a proposal aimed at giving “Dreamer...