In a day where the news in Peoria centers around a monster truck ralley and the news in Glendale focuses on the t-shirt vending machine at Arrowhead Mall, we look towards the state as a whole to provide us with something of substance. Voila! It looks as though we may have a state budget that the GOP can agree with.
After months of fighting, back-biting, lawsuits and general childish-ness, republican legislative leaders are trying to hurry through a plan by Wednesday that would resolve the state's $3.4 billion budget deficit.
The Senate Appropriations Committee is hoping to meet later today to consider 12 budget-related bills, although no language describing the bills has been released yet.
Democrats are protesting the hurry-up approach, saying it leaves no time to review what's in the bills, much less any time for the public to get involved.
I would hope that this all comes to a neat and tidy end, although I'm not holding my breath. Arizona, as I have said before, is in a crisis. No surprise there. We need to be calm and rational but we also need to be firm and aggressive in our resolution. I welcome the opportunity to see a budget that has been approved by both sides of this awful mess.
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