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With just two members voting today, the Board of Executive Clemency recommended a second pardon for an ex-convict who used a dead Watergate figure and a once-famous singer to vouch for his character.

Arizonans aren’t impressed with job Gov. Doug Ducey’s first five months in office, according to a poll conducted by a Democratic firm that showed far more disapproval than approval for his job performance.

The 2015 session is barely over, but Gov. Doug Ducey has already signaled one item that will be on his legislative agenda next year: the Arizona Commerce Authority.

Nicole Walker almost met the governor. In April, Gov. Doug Ducey spoke at the installation ceremony for the new president of Northern Arizona University, where Walker is an assistant professor teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in poetry and creative nonfiction.

Gov. Doug Ducey has picked a crime victims’ advocate tied to an organization that fights against parole for convicted murderers to be on a board that vets prisoners for release.

Gov. Doug Ducey said Thursday he’s convinced the climate is changing. But he doesn’t necessarily believe it is caused by anything that he or anyone else is doing.

Gov. Doug Ducey attributed his lack of information about a change in policy at the Department of Child Safety, which in February barred married same-sex couples from jointly fostering or adopting children, to the transition between ousted Director Charles Flanagan and his successor, Greg McKay.

Gov. Doug Ducey ordered the Department of Child Safety to allow married same-sex couples to jointly house foster children and adopt. Ducey ordered the policy change in response to an Arizona Capitol Times report that DCS had quietly reversed a policy that had allowed married same-sex couples to jointly adopt or provide foster care.

Former Arizona Department of Administration Director Brian McNeil is threatening a lawsuit over his 2014 firing, alleging that top aides to then-Gov. Jan Brewer illegally released confidential information to falsely portray him in a negative light in order to justify his termination.

Before boarding his “Opportunity Express” RV on Wednesday to celebrate his first 100 days in office, Gov. Doug Ducey said he has provided “100 productive days of promises kept.”