Now, this is how you do it.

Nearly 100 days after Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs sounded the alarm that some of Arizona’s most vulnerable citizens are facing disaster, the Republican-run Arizona Legislature has raced to act.

OK, raced probably isn’t the right word. It has, after all, been nearly 100 days, but our leaders finally have authorized emergency funding that will keep services flowing to tens of thousands of Arizonans with developmental disabilities.

“This,” said Sen. Eva Diaz, D-Tolleson, “is a good day in Arizona.”

One that was a long time in coming. Too long.

Hobbs warned on Jan. 17 that the state Division of Developmental Disabilities was “projected to begin facing cash flow challenges in late April or early May of 2025.”

Turns out, “cash flow challenges” meant the program would flat run out of money on May 1.

Unless the Legislature provided $122 million, nearly 59,000 Arizonans with developmental disabilities and those who care for them would be out of luck for the rest of the fiscal year.

For more than three months, these families waited for the rescue they so desperately needed.

Instead, they watched last week as House leaders

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