Arizona’s copper dome (original photo on Arizona Capitol Museum’s Web site)

Remember back in December when Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature described the pending billion-dollar budget shortfall as a crisis that would be the first priority of lawmakers when the regular session started in mid-January? The budget committees meet for a week before the session started, and then all regular committee meetings were canceled for another week so the budget writers could focus on the next fiscal year which will start July 1.

Now it’s the 1^st of March, so the Legislature must have wrapped up all of those budget issues and moved on other stuff, right? Hmm … No. The Senate Appropriations Committee acted Feb. 19 on what’s supposed to be the latest Republican plan to solve this year’s budget problems. But not a word since, and nothing on next year’s budget, either.

It’s going to be a looong spring for the Legislature that could stretch right into early summer. But what’s new about that?

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