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By Rep. Steve Gallardo The current voting rights of minorities in Arizona are at risk because Congress has not reauthorized Section 5 of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 set to expire in 2007. Members of Congress are scheduled ...

What will happen to the voter who gets lucky enough to win $1 million under the proposed plan to turn Arizona elections into a lottery≠ I mean, after she calls for tax cuts for the rich. A proposal by Tucson ...

We began this legislative session with high hopes and for good reason. State revenues were returning to normal. As the year progressed, the revenue surplus climbed higher and higher. Today Arizona has a budget surplus exceeding $1 billion. As you ...

Three years ago, the governor and allies like Rep. Pete Hershberger, R-26, said they knew why so many children were dying even when their plight was well known to Child Protective Services. CPS workers, they claimed, were fanatically bent on ...

Pity our state legislators. In the best of times, they have a tough job. They must deal with different philosophies about the role of government, reconcile conflicting claims to state revenues, and negotiate with governors who have their own agendas ...

During the last four years, some otherwise conservative Arizona legislators have voted for huge spending increases. Arizona’s general fund budgets have increased by an average of 11 percent per year since 2003. That’s more than double the average increase in ...

A recent Oprah “Special Report” and a Time magazine cover story exposed a shocking statistic — nearly one in three American students do not graduate from high school. One in three. Prompting the coverage was “The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives on ...

Center for Arizona Policy director will make it an issue, candidates say

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