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Four Peaks owners hope to maintain control despite Anheuser-Busch sale
Arizona’s largest craft brewery can no longer be classified by the state as a microbrew mere months after brewers won a legislative victory for the little guys.
Automatic voter registration bill faces uphill climb – again
Arizona’s conservative Legislature will have an opportunity, however unlikely, to follow in the steps of neighboring Democratic states and adopt measures to automatically register new voters.
Lawmakers admonish Department of Child Safety
Arizona lawmakers voted to rebuke the Department of Child Safety on Tuesday afternoon, a striking statement against an agency that has struggled to impress the legislators who created it over a year ago.
Stuart Luther: A catalyst for high school civic engagement
After four years with R&R Partners and Axiom Public Affairs, Stuart Luther left the world of lobbying to engage the next generation of policymakers as the Arizona program director for the Junior Statesman Foundation, a nonprofit educational group that supports Junior State of America.
Pancrazi opts not to seek re-election
Yuma Democrat Lynne Pancrazi won’t seek re-election to the Arizona Senate next year.
Another blow for Democrats: State Sen. Carlyle Begay switches parties
Democratic Sen. Carlyle Begay is now a Republican. The Ganado lawmaker announced Monday morning his switch to the Republican Party, a move he said is an extension of his independent streak at the Arizona Capitol. But Democrats categorized the move as no surprise for a lawmaker who often bucked his party to vote in favor of Republican-led bills.
Democrat Begay expected to switch to GOP
Democratic Sen. Carlyle Begay is widely expected to announce Monday he is switching parties, a move that ups the Republican Party’s already healthy advantage in the Senate.
Dem candidate Chavez calls police on party officials
Cesar Chavez is back. The self-proclaimed “most well-known Cesar Chavez alive today” showed up at the Arizona Democratic Party headquarters on Nov. 17, questioning why party officials aren’t taking his campaign to represent the 7th Congressional District seriously.
‘Revenge porn’ law fix is first 2016 bill
Arizona lawmakers next year will again consider a bill designed to outlaw “revenge porn” after legislation fell just short of passage in April. Arizona lawmakers next year will again consider a bill designed to outlaw “revenge porn” after legislation fell just short of passage in April.
Biggs succeeds in getting audit of First Things First
Rebuffed in his efforts to sweep dollars from First Things First as a part of K-12 funding plans, Senate President Andy Biggs will still get an audit of the early... […]
Barring disaster, school spending limit unlikely to be reached
A spending cap in the K-12 settlement approved by legislators was pounced on by Democratic lawmakers who say the cap will be used in the future to limit spending on schools.
Sherwood appointed to state Senate
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors appointed Tempe Democratic Rep. Andrew Sherwood to the state Senate.
