Chamber Honors Legislative Leaders And Creightons
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry honored legislative, corporate and publishing leaders at its annual luncheon June 14. The chamber named Senate President Ken Bennett its Arizona State Senator […]
Few Businesses Verify Documents Of Immigrant Workers
Few employers are taking advantage of a little-known federal program that allows them to weed out workers who seek jobs using fake documents. It’s intended to fix one of the […]
9th Circuit Court Appears Inclined To Leave Prop. 200 Intact
A federal appeals court in San Francisco was urged on June 14 to overturn a voter approved Arizona law denying welfare and other benefits to illegal immigrants. A three-judge panel […]
Review The Facts On ID At Polls
I take issue with the recent letter to the editor by Bonnie F. Saunders, president of the Arizona League of Women Voters, thanking the governor for vetoing the bills enacted […]
Merit Selection Promotes An Impartial Judiciary
Carol Turoff urges Arizonans to review the current system of how we select our judges. However, I think what is lurking just beneath the surface of such a “review” is […]
School District Quandry: What To Do With The Money
A new law that limits state spending on vocational and technical education districts has a northern Arizona school district in a quandary: it’s governing board must decide what to do […]
Legal Observers Discount Partisanship On High Court
Not since the early 1990s have Democrats held a majority in the Arizona Supreme Court, but those who closely monitor the five-member panel of justices say politics really doesn’t enter […]
Fire! Fire!
Many of us are drawn to the sight of crackling flames and the plumes of dark smoke that point to a burning building. Part of the fascination is watching well-trained […]
Arizona News Service Promotes Two
Barry Gartell and Anna Cardassi have been named editor and assistant editor, respectively, for Arizona Capitol Reports, Ginger Lamb, vice president and publisher of Arizona News Service (ANS), announced. Arizona […]
Congress Eyes State Mortgage Lending Laws
Laws against abusive mortgage lending in more than half the states would be overridden by a congressional proposal that is the latest federal attempt to preempt state authority over financial […]