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Recent Articles from Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services
Legislature 2020: How to spend surplus of money
State lawmakers return to the Capitol Monday to deal with something they appear to have plenty: Money and who gets it.
Bills would prohibit landowners from transferring private property to feds
Fearing an eroding tax base, two Republican legislators are leading efforts to block private individuals from transferring property to the federal government.
Attorney General files suit against vaping companies
Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed suit Tuesday against two companies that make vaping products, charging that they have illegally targeted teens and mislead consumers about the amount of addictive nicotine in their products.
State strikes deal to end voter lawsuit
State officials have agreed to alter procedures to ensure that Arizonans who change address aren't turned away at the polls because their voter registrations have not been updated.
Court ruling ends suit to challenge 2016 law on Israel
A federal appeals court on Monday quashed an injunction that kept Arizona from enforcing a law designed to use the state's economic power to keep firms from boycotting Israel and companies that operate there.
Private landowners can build unregulated border wall under proposed legislation
A top Republican lawmaker wants to allow people who own property along the border to build a wall without first getting any building permits.
Initiative campaign asks judge to order state not to enforce election law
An organizer of a campaign to rein in title loans is telling a federal judge that Arizonans won't get to decide the issue in November unless she blocks enforcement of a law on how initiative signatures are disqualified – and soon.
Gender identity debate comes to Capitol in opposing bills
A Green Valley lawmaker wants motorists to have more than the current either-or choice of "male'' or "female'' on state-issued driver's licenses.
Arizona likely to gain seat in Congress in 2020
An analysis of the latest Census numbers by Election Data Services shows Arizona is virtually certain to gain a congressional seat after the 2020 census.
Lawmaker wants health care providers to disclose morals, beliefs
A two-term state lawmaker wants to force health care providers to disclose – up front – whether they won't provide certain medical services or products based on their religious beliefs.
Minimum wage to bump up in new year
What would you do with an extra $2,080 a year? Well, maybe closer to $1,600 after taxes? That's the happy question facing hundreds of thousands of Arizonans who are in line for a wage bump come Jan 1. That's when the last phase in a 2016 voter-approved increase in the minimum wage kicks in.
State asks U.S. Supreme Court to overrule state high court
Attorney General Mark Brnovich wants the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a new trial to a man who says bad legal advice he got in a criminal case resulted in his deportation.
