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Is Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District within Democratic reach?
Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District was supposed to be a lost cause for Democrats.
Pro-SolarCity IE argues that transparency laws are unconstitutional
Save Our AZ Solar, which is spending millions of dollars to elect its favored candidates to the Arizona Corporation Commission, is insisting that disclosure laws requiring it to report its spending are unconstitutional.
Kelli Ward says she’s challenging Jeff Flake in 2018
She lost to U.S. Sen. John McCain not even two months ago, and this year’s general election isn’t even over yet, but former state senator Kelli Ward already decided she’s going to challenge U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake in 2018.
Insurance premium tax revenues rose in September as corporate tax collections declined
Corporate income tax collections tumbled anew in September, as companies appear to have now caught on to the tax cuts enacted by lawmakers over the years.
Three polls show Clinton ahead in Arizona
Hillary Clinton is now ahead in Arizona, three separate polls conducted within days of each other show.
Jim Rounds: A tactful approach to better budget policies
Jim Rounds is a familiar figure at the Capitol. He served as a senior economist and budget analyst at the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and as senior vice president of Elliott D. Pollack & Company. He now runs his own consulting firm, Rounds Consulting Group.
Republicans struggle to defend Donald Trump following lewd comments
The Republican Party is reeling from the fallout of a 2005 video of presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, in which he bragged about groping women and kissing them without waiting for permission. Critics say Trump was doing no less than boasting of being able to sexually assault women.
Decimated Department of Revenue down to four auditors
The agency in charge of making sure the state has the resources to operate at “the speed of business,” as Gov. Doug Ducey wants it to, has only four auditors monitoring thousands of corporations, the agency’s former chief economist said today.
A timeline – the tumultuous legal life of Arizona’s SB1070
Six years after its enactment, Arizona’s most famous anti-illegal immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, is now but a shell of its old self. The courts have defanged it, and a settlement reached recently between the state and its critics further defined and limited how the police may enforce it.
Former GOP county chairman coins a new rallying cry: ‘Never McCain’
Republican activist Rob Haney is prepared to betray his party in order to save it. Save it from U.S. Sen. John McCain, that is.
Trump vs. Flake: Political and temperamental opposites continue their tense standoff
The animus between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake is escalating to the point of no return.
In Arizona, conventional wisdom – money, name ID – rules
Donald Trump might have upended the conventional wisdom about political campaigns, and yet in Arizona, the conventional wisdom reasserted itself in the most conventional of ways.
