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Secretary of State Michele Reagan is urging lawmakers to enact regulations on “petition blocking,” a practice in which people hire away needed signature-gatherers in order to undermine an initiative campaign.

Vance Phillips and Tasya Peterson were impressed with the popularity of a Fox News tweet featuring the indictment of Rep. Ceci Velasquez on charges related to food stamp fraud.

A state employee of 22 years was fired from the Department of Economic Security and branded an “idiot” by Director Tim Jeffries after objecting to a news report shared with agency staff that the employee felt was purely political in nature.

Gary Phillips’ case was one of several involving publicized arrests of DES employees, including one in which the agency may have unlawfully disclosed the name of an employee who was a food stamp recipient.

Arizona residents can expect to see the largest rate increases in the nation when open enrollment for Obamacare begins next week, but advocates say those increases should be offset by similarly large increases in tax credits for consumers.

Gov. Doug Ducey has suspended the head of the Department of Economic Security's ability to terminate agency employees and installed a personnel monitor in the wake of a large number of dismissals.

Rodney Glassman has gone from Tucson Democrat to Phoenix Republican in a little more than a decade. Starting out as a city councilman in the Old Pueblo, he’s now in a coalition pushing to make kindergarten a full grade equal to one through 12.

Tapping white canes and carrying signs reading “white cane = competent traveler,” more than 100 blind people and their advocates stormed the Capitol on October 19 to protest assumptions about, and state practices regarding, the blind.

The state’s former health director has a simple plea to those implementing Arizona’s Medicaid reforms: Track what happens and report it.

The two remaining health insurers in Arizona's federal health marketplace will both be raising rates by more than 50 percent next year.