Sonoran News columnist Becky Fenger has a great take on the latest push by union bosses to sink what little is still floating in local government finance:

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blockquote>Union power play

Bill Hess gave us a decent write-up in the Sierra Vista Herald:

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blockquote>November is coming.

In large white letters, that message was painted on two sides of a bus, calling into action people upset with big government and the size of the federal budget deficit.

Wednesday morning, Americans for Prosperity rolled into town, and the Arizona director of the group, Tom Jenney, said the organization “is the largest grass-roots, free-market organization” in the country.

This appeared in the August 27 edition of Inside Tucson Business:

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blockquote>Six Arizona municipalities rank among the nation’s top 25 cities for having the highest combined rates of state and municipal sales taxes, according to the Tax Foundation, Washington, D.C. Tucson was No. 16 at a combined rate of 9.1 percent.

This appeared in the August 27 edition of Inside Tucson Business:

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blockquote>Six Arizona municipalities rank among the nation’s top 25 cities for having the highest combined rates of state and municipal sales taxes, according to the Tax Foundation, Washington, D.C. Tucson was No. 16 at a combined rate of 9.1 percent.

This appeared in the August 27 edition of Inside Tucson Business:

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blockquote>Six Arizona municipalities rank among the nation’s top 25 cities for having the highest combined rates of state and municipal sales taxes, according to the Tax Foundation, Washington, D.C. Tucson was No. 16 at a combined rate of 9.1 percent.