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The Breakdown: Walking a fine line
When do you ignore an offensive comment or unwelcome advance, and when do you speak up about it?
Fate of most 2020 bills met at Legislature’s deadline
Silent death has come for about two-thirds of the 1,842 bills and resolutions introduced this year in the Legislature.
The Breakdown: What a week
Migrants rights advocates started the week terrified that Republicans would try to ram through an attempt to enshrine a ban on sanctuary cities in the state constitution ahead of a presidential rally.
The Breakdown: Meanwhile, in corporate America
If the state lawmakers at the center of two ongoing scandals had been corporate employees, they would have been fired or disciplined immediately after news about them broke, corporate sources say.
The Breakdown: Sex scandals at the Capitol
A state senator who became the face of Arizona's Me Too Movement harassed a female lobbyist, according to court depositions.
The Breakdown: Oops?
The Arizona Department of Education failed to properly redact a document it sent our reporter and other media, leaving parents' information vulnerable.
The Breakdown: Love letters and budget
The House is embroiled in scandal over a Republican representative’s personal life for the third time in as many years, and this time, there are letters.
In their words: Pete Rios
Pete Rios wasn’t just there when Democrats split the Senate in 2001-02 and actually controlled the chamber in 1991-92, he was leading the charge.
In their words: Russell Pearce
There are the historians and there are the history makers.
Live Blog: The 54th Legislature comes to a close
After 134 days in the 2019 legislative session, things are finally starting to wrap up.
Central Avenue, Phoenix c. 1928
The photograph of Central Avenue in the 1920s shows the famous ash trees planted by pioneer William J. Murphy. The second photograph is a 1903 view of the home he... […]
Sirens, Courtesans & Ladies of Ill-Repute
Frontier Tucson had a red-light district like most Western towns. In the late 1870s and ‘80s, prostitutes operated along Maiden Lane in the Wedge between Church and Main. (The Wedge... […]
