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On March 26, the Arizona Senate Education K-12 Committee unanimously recommended sending H2441 to the full Senate for a vote. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, requires the State Department of Education to create a list of authorized ...

There is a bill in the Legislature that could significantly change the way many of Arizona’s judges are chosen. It proposes the audacious idea that the people should choose judges instead of a select committee of politically appointed lawyers and ...

The Arizona Legislature is currently debating employer sanctions legislation. House Bill 2745, sponsored by Rep. Russell Pearce of Mesa, comes on the heels of a law approved last year that provides sanctions against employers who hire undocumented workers. The business ...

April 1 marked the opening day to apply for high-skilled work visas for use in specialized fields (H-1B visas). Last year the 65,000 H-1B visas were gone in a day with 150,000 total applicants. Last week they were again snatched ...

Arizona employers who failed to file H-1B visa applications by April 1 may be out of luck if they are seeking to hire foreign nationals in a professional or specialty occupation for fiscal year 2009. Last year at this time, ...

It’s a safe bet that most Arizonans are happy to acknowledge National Crime Victim Rights Week, which begins April 13. And that virtually all would endorse its official intent “to promote victims’ rights, and to honor crime victims and those ...

I was pleased to be able to represent the Mohave County Water Authority before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Rural Affairs on March 19 in regards to Rep. Nancy McLain’s House Bill 2132. That committee is chaired by ...

On March 14, the Capitol Times ran a guest column by the president of the Arizona School Boards Association stating that Arizonans should be “outraged” at me. The column was 100 percent emotion, zero percent analysis.The attack relates to the ...

The Arizona Capitol Times Feb. 29th article, “Availability of alt fuels limits use by state vehicles,” while focused on government vehicles, highlights the missing component that would help achieve increased consumer use of clean fuels in Arizona: Retail pumps.Other components ...

In this time of fiscal crisis, conversations about the future of the state must include the health and human services sector as well as immigration, transportation, water, economic development, tax policy and education.Too often, state budget allocations for health and ...