Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Senate President Warren Petersen spent an hour talking over each other and making snide comments in a Wednesday night debate over which of the two candidates should be the state’s top law enforcement official for the next four years. Mayes highlighted the lawsuits her office has been involved in […]
The Republican and Democratic nominees for Arizona Treasurer attempted to woo voters Wednesday evening during a debate in which both men tried to paint the other as untrustworthy of being responsible for overseeing how the state’s money is invested. Republican Elijah Norton and Democrat Nick Mansour each claimed that they intend to keep “partisan politics” […]
The Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission says that its investigation into whether two Green Party candidates fraudulently qualified for campaign funding is squarely within the scope of its legally mandated job of protecting the state’s public campaign finance system, and that a Maricopa County Superior Court judge should throw out the candidates’ lawsuit to block […]
Family members of homicide victims called on lawmakers and law enforcement to shift funding away from heavy sentences and capital punishment to cold-case investigations, violence prevention and survivor support. At a news conference Monday, members of Arizonans for Effective Public Safety recounted the still unsolved murders of their daughter, son, husband and cousin, crimes that […]
Republican state Sen. Jake Hoffman set out to expose Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ alleged pay-to-play mess and instead stepped into a money-making scheme of his own. Hoffman is now backpedaling subpoenas he issued last week against Hobbs, Attorney General Kris Mayes and others to appear before his legislative committee. He’s blaming the “crooked media” for […]
Voters will decide in November whether city governments must earn their approval before raising grocery taxes. And while Republicans say doing so will help ease the financial burden on everyday Arizonans, some city officials warn that it will make it harder to provide public services. Proposition 316 would cap grocery tax rates at 2% and […]
Destroying a public record after a member of the public requests it should land government agencies in legal trouble, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled today. Matthew Abraham, a former English professor at the University of Arizona, sued the Arizona Board of Regents after the university denied access to a list of records pertaining to hiring […]
Andy Biggs, the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, said last year that he would support putting cameras in public school classrooms so that parents can keep an eye on “woke” teachers. Experts say that doing so would put student safety and privacy at risk because, even if streaming camera feeds are meant for a private […]
Attorneys for Arizona’s prison system ran to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to make one last plea to delay a court-ordered takeover of its healthcare system. A federal district court judge and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals already denied the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry’s request to put off receivership […]
An immigrant rights group will spend millions and knock on tens of thousands of doors to fire up Latino voters ahead of the November midterms, in the hopes of electing progressive candidates who will push back against President Donald Trump. Living United for Change in Arizona, which frequently campaigns on behalf of Democrats, is planning […]
September is National Cold Case Month and on Sept. 20, my cousin Loretta Lynn would have turned 65 years old. Instead, my family has spent nearly four decades waiting for the identity of who killed her. On June 14, 1988, I was traveling in Europe when I picked up a pay phone and received the […]
A national political action committee that aims to get science-minded Democrats elected is investing nearly $1 million in ads opposing former NFL kicker Jay Feely in his bid for Congress in one of Arizona’s most competitive contests. The PAC, 314 Action Fund, will be running its ad across the district for the next week on […]
Arizona’s billion-dollar and growing school voucher program took center stage Tuesday night as state Treasurer Kimberly Yee and former schoolteacher and community college president Teresa Leyba Ruiz sparred over how they would lead Arizona’s public schools as the next state schools chief. The program, known formally as Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, is projected to cost the […]
When Andy Biggs, the Republican nominee for governor, was a state senator, he tried to abolish Medicaid in the Grand Canyon State because it cost taxpayers too much to provide health insurance for low-income Arizonans. “When we allow the generations in the future to be robbed and enslaved to pay for the healthcare costs of […]
A political action committee founded by the head of one of Arizona’s largest charter school networks is facing a criminal investigation for allegedly violating campaign finance law by using funds from his company to donate directly to Republican candidates. Glenn Way is the CEO of Charter One LLC and the chairman of the Educational Freedom […]
Two candidates facing civil and criminal investigations into whether they fraudulently qualified for millions in public campaign funding want a court to block the Clean Elections Commission from making them repay the money. Gubernatorial candidate Risa Lombardo and secretary of state candidate Duwayne Collier filed a lawsuit against the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission, its […]
Criminally, Gov. Katie Hobbs may be cleared. But politically and ethically, this whole thing with Sunshine Residential still stinks royally. And, no, it’s not because the person who won’t charge her criminally is fellow Democrat Kris Mayes, the state’s attorney general. It has a lot to do with Hobbs’ secrecy about a state contractor and […]
Cooling systems in Arizona state prisons failed this summer as temperatures hit triple digits. Now, the reported outages have caught the attention of a state legislator who is demanding that leaders at the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry answer questions about it. To that end, Rep. Walt Blackman, a Republican from Snowflake, issued […]
Republican Congressman Juan Ciscomani and his challenger, Democrat Joanna Mendoza, both tried to woo voters Thursday night in a debate by trying to distance themselves from the divisive partisan politics that have dominated in the era of Donald Trump. Since it was drawn at the beginning of the decade, Congressional District 6 has been Arizona’s […]
The commission that oversees Arizona’s public campaign funding system voted Thursday to reject a settlement agreement with Ralph Heap, a Republican state legislator and a candidate for the state’s utility regulator. Heap has been at odds with the Citizens Clean Election Commission since June, when the commission began investigating a complaint that he had violated […]
The Arizona Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a 2024 law that punishes immigrants who cross the state’s southern border with jail time, rejecting a lawsuit that argued it violates the Arizona Constitution because it failed to take into account how much it would cost the state. Living United for Change in Arizona, the immigrant […]
Republican state Rep. Justin Wilmeth is running for reelection on his record of bolstering Arizona’s economy, even as his own legislative salary was garnished last year because he defaulted on a student loan. Wilmeth, who was a Republican policy advisor for the Arizona House of Representatives before he was elected to the body in 2020, […]
As Republican candidates nationally skipped President Donald Trump’s “midterm convention” and have sought to separate themselves from the historically unpopular president, Republican Jay Feely took the opposite tack, joining Trump in Dallas and giving a speech to the GOP faithful. Feely, a former NFL kicker and broadcaster, leveraged Trump’s endorsement in the July primary election […]
U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Phoenix, conducted a surprise oversight visit of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Phoenix on Wednesday after reporting last week by the Arizona Mirror showed that detainees are staying longer and in larger numbers than in previous years. Ansari cited the Mirror’s reporting for prompting her to conduct the […]