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Livingston proposes accelerated tax breaks for insurance industry
A top state House Republican is moving to have the state speed up tax breaks for the insurance industry.
Stonewalled: Legislature redacts, delays and denies access to messages
Four months ago, the Arizona Capitol Times set out to learn how much of the state’s business is being conducted on smartphones, via newer technologies like text messages, social media chats and third-party messenger applications. But getting access to those messages, which most experts and public officials agree are covered under the state public records laws, can be extremely difficult.
Three Dems nominated to fill vacant House seat
Citing a unique opportunity to ensure the next lawmaker is a woman, LD26 Democratic precinct committeemen on Wednesday nominated an all-female slate of three candidates to fill the district’s open House seat.
‘Revenge porn’ law fix is first 2016 bill
Arizona lawmakers next year will again consider a bill designed to outlaw “revenge porn” after legislation fell just short of passage in April. Arizona lawmakers next year will again consider a bill designed to outlaw “revenge porn” after legislation fell just short of passage in April.
Senate Republicans urge schools chief, ed board to settle
Republican leaders of the Arizona Senate are urging state schools chief Diane Douglas and the Arizona Board of Education to end their dispute over board investigators' access to teacher records.
Lobbying records only disclose recipient for $1 out of every $8 spent
Less than 14 percent of the roughly $333,000 spent to lobby Arizona lawmakers in the first half of 2015 identified who the money was spent on, continuing a trend of scant disclosure going back years.
Paperwork filed for K-12 education campaign
The push for Proposition 123 got its official start as the campaign for the May 17 special election filed its paperwork with the Secretary of State’s Office on Thursday.
Money donated for border fence instead will go for binoculars, cameras, GPS equipment
Money donated by private individuals to help Arizona build fencing along the Mexican border won’t go toward a physical fence, or even a virtual fence.
Lawmakers to pull plug on Arizona border fence plan
Arizona lawmakers who hoped to build miles of fencing along the border with Mexico using private money are pulling the plug on the project after nearly five years.
Dems fear K-12 funding deal a prelude to tax cuts
Now that Gov. Doug Ducey and Republican legislative leaders have found a way to resolve the ongoing K-12 funding lawsuit without draining the general fund, Democratic lawmakers are concerned that the governor will use the projected budget surplus on tax cuts.
For it yet against it: Dems split on school funding package
In a span of less than 24 hours, House Democratic Leader Eric Meyer went from railing against the special session package designed to settle the lawsuit over education inflation funding, to vowing to support it at the special election in May.
Barring disaster, school spending limit unlikely to be reached
A spending cap in the K-12 settlement approved by legislators was pounced on by Democratic lawmakers who say the cap will be used in the future to limit spending on schools.
