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Dana Naimark: Growing Children’s Action Alliance
Dana Naimark spent the past 27 years at Children’s Action Alliance, where she has long served as president and CEO of the organization dedicated to advocating for kids’ issues at the Arizona Capitol and beyond.
Ducey pulls incentives from Nike over flag-sneaker flap
Gov. Doug Ducey nixed up to $1 million in incentives meant to help attract Nike manufacturing jobs to Arizona after the company decided to pull back a new shoe featuring a U.S. flag design credited to Betsy Ross.
AG to appeal ruling on 2017 campaign finance overhaul
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich will appeal a ruling that parts of a campaign finance overhaul violated the Voter Protection Act by altering the state’s clean elections process.
Maricopa County supervisors hire additional elections director
After two election cycles marred by long lines and unfounded accusations of partisan bias, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved changes on June 26 to the way the county hosts elections.
Ducey embraces Trump after years of keeping distance
In 2016, Gov. Doug Ducey never tweeted about Donald Trump while the future president was on the campaign trail.
Board of Ed to sit on $20M earmarked for cops and counselors
Arizona schools will have to wait another school year to hire new counselors and cops.
Discontent with 2018 election brings slate of new voting laws
Amid lingering frustrations over the 2018 election – with Republican accusations that a Democrat in charge of ballots in Arizona’s most populous county had mucked up the process– a flurry of election-related bills were introduced this year.
Expect revival of pet bills that failed to survive
Even after settling on a multi-billion spending plan for the next year, there was plenty left unsettled when lawmakers went home for the summer.
Session Wrap with Gov. Doug Ducey
In the first session of Doug Ducey’s second term in office, the governor experienced his longest session yet, though the results were much the same – Ducey got most of what he wanted, including a billion dollars tucked away for a rainy day.
Ducey says voucher fix is high priority next year
Gov. Doug Ducey wants to expand Arizona’s voucher program to allow Native American students to spend public monies outside the state’s borders.
Law or not, school voucher oversight in the works
A provision slipped into the budget directs state officials to contract with a private company to help administer Arizona’s school voucher program.
Lawmaker’s encounter leads to de-escalation training for school cops
Police officers patrolling school campuses will soon undergo new training on de-escalation and crisis intervention with students, thanks to a tweet from Rep. Alma Hernandez.
