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Special session push exposes legislative discord
An outgoing House Republican’s effort to call the Legislature into a special session is driving a wedge in an already factional caucus.
Powerless lawmakers meet with owners of closed businesses
Republican lawmakers who have been spinning their wheels since spring have turned to meeting with lobbyists and owners of shuttered industries to search for ways to help them reopen — but they’re still limited in what they can accomplish.
Arson reminder of dangers that lurk in political world
Multiple current lawmakers have received threats so credible police investigated them, and they’re all left to try to differentiate angry but non-threatening speech and anodyne acts of vandalism, like defacing campaign signs, from serious threats.
Democratic jobless plan emerges to dormant Legislature
A Democratic proposal to bolster the state’s unemployment benefit system is taking shape. It’s the product of a consortium of lawmakers and left-leaning think-tanks who fear that the expiration of... […]
Cook defenders, critics both have concerns about ethics process
The five-month House Ethics Committee investigation into Rep. David Cook followed a long, winding path through a muck of innuendo and half-truth, only to arrive at a determination that never... […]
Lawmaker hires brother to test state’s COVID data
A Southern Arizona lawmaker is claiming that a new study he commissioned shows that there is no correlation between the rising number of people being infected with COVID-19 and the number who wind up in the hospital.
Cook off the hook, ethics probe dropped – for now
The House Ethics Committee will not pursue any action against Rep. David Cook at least at this time, special chair Rep. John Allen announced in a letter July 8, essentially ending the months-long investigation into the embattled lawmaker without punishment.
Rep. Osborne has COVID
Representative Joanne Osborne has tested positive for COVID-19, the Goodyear Republican announced on Facebook today.
GOP lawmaker calls for 10-year punishment for memorial vandals
The next time someone pours paint on, tars-and-feathers or tries to topple a monument somewhere in Arizona, one state lawmaker wants the vandal to face a prison sentence equivalent to... […]
Democrats, Republicans adopt divergent campaign strategies amid pandemic
Democratic legislative candidate Felicia French, who just returned from volunteering as a nurse on the Navajo Nation for a month, went back to a campaign that couldn’t look more different... […]
GOP lawmakers bypass Democrat Hobbs to disburse elections money
Legislative Republicans voted without warning Wednesday to yank $500,000 that Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs planned to use for voter outreach and redistribute it to counties in a move... […]
Q&A with Senate Minority Leader David Bradley
Senate Minority Leader David Bradley will end a 16-year career as a lawmaker this year with a rare accomplishment: having voted for a bipartisan budget. It only took a global... […]
