http://azcapitoltimes.com Your Inside Track to Arizona Politics Fri, 24 May 2013 20:17:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-david-schapira-found-some-success-at-blocking-legislation-with-%e2%80%98watchdog%e2%80%99-approach/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-david-schapira-found-some-success-at-blocking-legislation-with-%e2%80%98watchdog%e2%80%99-approach/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 09:28:58 +0000 Luige del Puerto http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-david-schapira-found-some-success-at-blocking-legislation-with-%e2%80%98watchdog%e2%80%99-approach/
The immediate challenge for Senate Minority Leader David Schapira, a Tempe Democrat, and his caucus was to avoid being relegated to irrelevance. ]]> http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-david-schapira-found-some-success-at-blocking-legislation-with-%e2%80%98watchdog%e2%80%99-approach/feed/ 1 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-russell-pearce-recognizes-he%e2%80%99s-not-%e2%80%98a-party-of-one%e2%80%99-can%e2%80%99t-do-whatever-he-wants/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-russell-pearce-recognizes-he%e2%80%99s-not-%e2%80%98a-party-of-one%e2%80%99-can%e2%80%99t-do-whatever-he-wants/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 09:23:20 +0000 Luige del Puerto http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-russell-pearce-recognizes-he%e2%80%99s-not-%e2%80%98a-party-of-one%e2%80%99-can%e2%80%99t-do-whatever-he-wants/
Pearce is often perceived as unmovable, uncompromising, even single-minded — traits that may be good or bad, depending on which side of the aisle you’re sitting. Many wondered what his presidency would look like and some speculated whether he would rule with a hammer. ]]> http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-russell-pearce-recognizes-he%e2%80%99s-not-%e2%80%98a-party-of-one%e2%80%99-can%e2%80%99t-do-whatever-he-wants/feed/ 4 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-chad-campbell-house-dems-strive-for-transparency-cite-%e2%80%98broken%e2%80%99-budget-process/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-chad-campbell-house-dems-strive-for-transparency-cite-%e2%80%98broken%e2%80%99-budget-process/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 09:16:51 +0000 Luige del Puerto and Caitlin Coakley Beckner http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-chad-campbell-house-dems-strive-for-transparency-cite-%e2%80%98broken%e2%80%99-budget-process/
Predictably, the Democrats couldn’t get their proposals for tax reforms into the budget, nor could they stop a torrent of conservative legislation. But Campbell said that they did manage to get some of their goals accomplished, even if it was just keeping the public eye on the Legislature. ]]> http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-chad-campbell-house-dems-strive-for-transparency-cite-%e2%80%98broken%e2%80%99-budget-process/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-kirk-adams-session-was-%e2%80%98culmination%e2%80%99-of-legislative-career/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-kirk-adams-session-was-%e2%80%98culmination%e2%80%99-of-legislative-career/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 09:10:26 +0000 Caitlin Coakley Beckner http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-kirk-adams-session-was-%e2%80%98culmination%e2%80%99-of-legislative-career/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-kirk-adams-session-was-%e2%80%98culmination%e2%80%99-of-legislative-career/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-gov-jan-brewer-touts-openness-says-vetoes-represent-decision-not-to-%e2%80%98blow-a-hole%e2%80%99-in-budget/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-gov-jan-brewer-touts-openness-says-vetoes-represent-decision-not-to-%e2%80%98blow-a-hole%e2%80%99-in-budget/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 09:02:01 +0000 Jeremy Duda http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-gov-jan-brewer-touts-openness-says-vetoes-represent-decision-not-to-%e2%80%98blow-a-hole%e2%80%99-in-budget/
Having won an overwhelming voter mandate in November, Brewer no longer was the governor who simply inherited the job. And with her hard-fought battle for a sales tax increase won, she was no longer the Republican governor who spent most of her time feuding with her own party. ]]> http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/05/15/upclose-with-gov-jan-brewer-touts-openness-says-vetoes-represent-decision-not-to-%e2%80%98blow-a-hole%e2%80%99-in-budget/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/02/11/upclose-with-jerry-colangelo-sports-mogul-aiming-to-turn-arizona-economy-into-a-winner/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/02/11/upclose-with-jerry-colangelo-sports-mogul-aiming-to-turn-arizona-economy-into-a-winner/#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:28:37 +0000 Evan Wyloge http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/02/11/upclose-with-jerry-colangelo-sports-mogul-aiming-to-turn-arizona-economy-into-a-winner/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/02/11/upclose-with-jerry-colangelo-sports-mogul-aiming-to-turn-arizona-economy-into-a-winner/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/01/09/up-close-with-ken-bennett/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/01/09/up-close-with-ken-bennett/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:39:41 +0000 Jeremy Duda http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/01/09/up-close-with-ken-bennett/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/01/09/up-close-with-ken-bennett/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/17/upclose-with-andrew-morrill-teachers-union-chief-says-he%e2%80%99s-not-a-liberal-takes-balanced-approach/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/17/upclose-with-andrew-morrill-teachers-union-chief-says-he%e2%80%99s-not-a-liberal-takes-balanced-approach/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:17:49 +0000 Luige del Puerto http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/17/upclose-with-andrew-morrill-teachers-union-chief-says-he%e2%80%99s-not-a-liberal-takes-balanced-approach/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/17/upclose-with-andrew-morrill-teachers-union-chief-says-he%e2%80%99s-not-a-liberal-takes-balanced-approach/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/13/upclose-with-dale-baich-public-defender-talks-death-penalty-sodium-thiopental-and-jeffrey-landrigan/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/13/upclose-with-dale-baich-public-defender-talks-death-penalty-sodium-thiopental-and-jeffrey-landrigan/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:43:05 +0000 Gary Grado http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/13/upclose-with-dale-baich-public-defender-talks-death-penalty-sodium-thiopental-and-jeffrey-landrigan/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/13/upclose-with-dale-baich-public-defender-talks-death-penalty-sodium-thiopental-and-jeffrey-landrigan/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/03/upclose-with-todd-sanders-phoenix-chamber-ceo-says-business-community-unified-like-never-before/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/03/upclose-with-todd-sanders-phoenix-chamber-ceo-says-business-community-unified-like-never-before/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:57:58 +0000 Jeremy Duda http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/03/upclose-with-todd-sanders-phoenix-chamber-ceo-says-business-community-unified-like-never-before/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/03/upclose-with-todd-sanders-phoenix-chamber-ceo-says-business-community-unified-like-never-before/feed/ 1