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County recorders call relationship with Secretary of State ‘dire’
Arizona’s 15 county recorders this week delivered a letter to Secretary of State Michele Reagan in which they said communication between their offices and hers are “in a dire state” because state Election Director Eric Spencer has been “ineffective and disrespectful.”
Ducey says state’s gap in anti-discrimination laws won’t jeopardize future events
Gov. Doug Ducey said Wednesday he's does not believe that Arizona's lack of laws protecting gays and transgender individuals from discrimination will prevent the state from landing future national events as it has in North Carolina.
Lawrence calls for local partisan elections, raising objections from cities
A Republican state lawmaker wants all local elections, from city councils to water boards, to be partisan.
Top teachers call for 4 percent pay boost rather than 0.4 percent
Calling the governor’s salary hike proposal perhaps worse than nothing, the top teachers in Arizona want Gov. Doug Ducey to spend all of his new education dollars for a pay hike rather than spreading the cash around.
Ducey asks Congress to maintain Obamacare subsidies
Gov. Doug Ducey is giving Congress a roadmap of what he said needs to be done - both immediately and later - to repeal and replace the federal Affordable Care Act.
‘Unicorns and rainbows’ – Dems question governor’s budget plan
When Gov. Doug Ducey delivered his 2017 State of the State speech outlining his ambitious budget priorities, especially in the arena of K-12 education, legislative Democrats were more optimistic than they’ve been in years.
Fiscal reality intrudes on Ducey’s ambitious agenda
After Gov. Doug Ducey’s State of the State address, the most common question among lawmakers of both parties was how the governor would pay for the grand ambitions he laid out. The answer, given a few days later in his executive budget plan, was to put a few drops in a lot of different buckets.
In first adjustment since 1972, bill would require more car insurance
Saying Arizonans are one accident away from financial ruin, state lawmakers want to force motorists to buy more insurance to pay for the deaths and injuries they cause to others.
Arizona bill to ban school ‘social justice’ courses dies quickly
Republican Rep. Bob Thorpe’s bill to ban K-12 schools and universities from teaching “social justice” is dead for the year, according to the chairman of the committee to which it has been assigned.
Former AZ Governor Napolitano in hospital for cancer
University of California President Janet Napolitano, a former U.S. Homeland Security secretary, has been undergoing treatment for cancer and was hospitalized Tuesday with complications, the school system said.
Medical boards looking at Ducey’s recommendation of opioid education
Medical professionals say Gov. Doug Ducey’s letter urging that Arizona doctors receive more education on drug addiction is a step forward in the battle against opioid abuse, but that the curriculum must be detailed and useful.
Arizona pushing private expansion of state mental hospital
The state health department is asking the Arizona Legislature to pass a law allowing it to lease parts of the state mental hospital and its 93-acre grounds to private providers.
