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... […]
Clean Election Legislation Goes Nowhere Official: Lawmakers ‘Reluctant’ To Make Changes
Despite the filing of 20 bills and concurrent resolutions that would have affected the voter-approved Clean Elections Act in one way or another, only two made it through the legislative... […]
Bales Named To State Supreme Court
Governor Napolitano on Tuesday named Scott Bales, a political and legal ally, to the Arizona Supreme Court. Mr. Bales, a Phoenix lawyer who had worked for Ms. Napolitano at the... […]
Governor Napolitano
‘One Thing I’ve Learned … About The Legislature — Nothing Is Ever Over’
House Speaker Jim Weiers
Until Governor Keeps Agreements, ‘It’s Going To Be Very Rocky And Tenuous’