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Plan unveiled for juvenile corrections
The Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections would close in March 2011 under the Legislature’s plan to shift the cost of incarcerating juveniles to counties.
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Day 1: Tracking the special session
The second special session of the year began just after 2 p.m. today. Click here for updates.
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Arizona’s Cash Crisis special report
Arizona Capitol Times veteran reporter Jim Small talks about the state’s serious budget issues and what to expect in the next few weeks from the Legislature in part 1 of Channel 5’s special report “Arizona’s Cash Crisis.”
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Special session begins today
Gov. Jan Brewer announced March 5 that the Legislature will begin the second special session of the year today to work on a budget that will fill in a deficit of $3.4 billion in the fiscal 2010 and 2011 budgets.
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O’Connor’s project: Usher in second century of statehood with new direction
Years ago, an old adobe house in Paradise Valley was known as a place where politicians and community leaders gathered for Mexican food, beer and cross-party solidarity.
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Despite wide support, construction of a $187M medical school building still on hold
On the surface, it seemed like a no-brainer to build a new Health Sciences Education Building for Arizona’s three state universities.
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Democrat urges pay cut for lawmakers
If all state workers have to take a pay cut, then so should lawmakers, says one Democratic senator who has sponsored a measure to reduce lawmaker salaries by the same percentage of state employees.
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No budget yet, but some details slipping out
Republican lawmakers hoped to have a budget plan approved by March 4, but were apparently unable to cobble together the support needed to paper over $3.4 billion in deficit.
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Campaign finance now in uncharted territory
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that corporations and labor unions can spend freely on political campaigns, Arizona has a simple choice - create new regulations to monitor that type of spending, or run the risk of an entire election cycle being dominated by millions of dollars worth of anonymous advertising.
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Burns proposes new controls on state borrowing, debt repayment
Senate President Bob Burns said he will propose a ballot measure to cap the state’s ability to take on new debt.
First, he wants to remove the debt limitation in the Arizona Constitution, which is $350,000.
That limit has been in place since the state’s founding in 1912.
