SashaTheBOLD

It could be an arcade-style mini-game called "Whack-a-Binks," only with a light saber instead of a mallet.

Next day: $67.4 billion

Second day: Free with Amazon Prime!

My wife has a serious problem with chronic pain. Because of the new regulations, she routinely spends the last few days of each month weeping in agony and desperately waiting until she can refill a prescription.

How could our government craft legislation that both prevents prescription drug abuse and also enables those with chronic pain to avoid suffering?

A million regulations add up to a bad situation:

• She can't have stronger drugs, because they're regulated
• She can't have more of the drug, because there's a legal maximum
• Her prescriptions are for pain "as needed," so she uses them up before the law allows a refill

Her doctors act as though there is no solution. A terrible doctor before prescribed a particularly harsh medication that nearly killed her and left her with such gastric troubles that she has a lifetime ban from all NSAIDs. Her pains are migraine, so common pain blockers are useless.

She's the exception that clumsy rules ignore.

Our legislature has seriously reduced education spending in our state. K-12 funding has fallen by unimaginable amounts, the state universities have lost a quarter of their total funding, and the Maricopa Community Colleges have lost 100% of their state funding. At some point, the benefit of an additional tax cut is dwarfed by the benefit of having a properly funded government doing important things for its people.

Will you fight to increase funding to education in the state, even if that means increased taxes? Do you have a plan to improve education in Arizona?