ATRA in the News: 2009

Education Finance

Plan to sue over TUSD deseg levy is dropped

Budget losses at polls worry Valley schools

School-funding system flawed

Local taxpayers may see higher rates to pay for school costs

District seeks more funds

Dilemma: More teachers or higher pay?

Closing desegregation loophole could choke TUSD's finances

Miscellaneous

Adams vowed transparency, didn't deliver

Senate chief hopes to avoid same mistakes

Setting record straight on taxation in Arizona

State, federal cigarette taxes to hit $3 per pack on April 1

Municipal and County Government

Death of a thousand cuts

On Prop. 200, resist ballot-box budgeting

House GOP leaders' budget plan would go easier on cities, schools

State should abide by its TIF deal with Tucson

Property Tax

Maricopa County rejects most tax appeals

Bill capping secondary property taxes advances in Senate

Plan would shift bond, override cost onto homeowners

GOP budget proposal raises taxes on homeowners

Should we repeal the equalization tax?

Businesses join to fight property tax in Arizona

Assessed values drop, tax bills probably won't

Panel takes step to repeal property tax

Budget squabbles singe rural firefighters