Seeking to rectify an embarrassing and expensive mistake, the Arizona legislature met in special session in October to call to a halt an alternative-fuel tax-incentive program it had approved only five months earlier.

Very often, a big development project achieves regional goals but does so by flattening a local community. Or vice versa.

The city council elections are over, and now, as chief of staff to Mayor Jamie Wiliams, you need to turn your attention to the next two years--the last two years. The city charter prohibits the mayor of Zenith City from seeking a third four-year term. Yet Mayor Wiliams has to govern for two more years--during which time everyone will call her (although not always to her face) a lame duck.