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by David Safier If you live in Tucson and you want to know about the tuition tax credit/STO mess, there's currently only one place to go: my posts on BfA. The Star has been AWOL when it comes to covering...

by David Safier The other legislative committee looking into tuition tax credits and STOs met Monday. I call it "the other committee" because it was set up by Rs to counter the task force set up by Ds. The D-created...

by David Safier As you know if you've been reading this blog, I've had several bones to pick with the Goldwater Institute's studies comparing public and private school students in their knowledge of civics, tolerance of others and feelings about...

This hearing will not be televised

by David Safier

[Note: In classic blog fashion, Part 3 is at the top of the page with Parts 2 and 1 following. Scroll down if you want to read them in the order they were written.]

These days, state legislative business is videotaped and streamed on the web. It's one of those wonderful high tech features that were impossible a few years ago. Bring the government to the people! (or at least let them watch the sausage-making live on their computer screens.)

The first meeting of the House's tuition tax credit/STO task force was streamed, as usual. Wednesday's session, however, wasn't.