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May 22, 2018

The Arizona Capitol Times wins more than dozen press club awards

The Arizona Capitol Times excelled in the categories of political writing and investigative reporting in the Arizona Press Club’s annual writing contest.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, left, accompanied by President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a meeting with governors in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 21, 2018, to discuss border security and restoring safe communities. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
May 21, 2018

Trump discusses immigration agenda with GOP governors

President Donald Trump dined Monday evening with Republican governors supportive of his immigration policies to discuss plans for border security and deporting people in the U.S. illegally.

Francisco Meneses, Jr. (Photo by Paulina Pineda/Arizona Capitol Times)
May 21, 2018

Francisco Meneses: Works to keep Arizona’s fighters safe

Francisco Meneses, Jr., remembers watching televised boxing matches as a child with his aunts and uncles at family parties. More than 20 years later, Meneses serves as executive director of the Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts Commission

These structures store spent fuel. Officials say Palo Verde has enough space to store used fuel indefinitely while the federal government decides where to place a permanent national storage facility. (Cronkite News Service Photo by Griselda Nevarez)
May 21, 2018

Clean energy ballot measure could close nuclear plant

The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station is the nation’s largest power producer, and if the Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona initiative appears on the ballot in November, voters will decide the plant’s future.

May 18, 2018

Democrats urge governor to call special session on guns after Texas shooting

Democrat lawmakers are using Friday's school shooting in Texas in a bid to get Gov. Doug Ducey to call lawmakers into special session to adopt new gun laws.

May 18, 2018

State Supreme Court rules search in Cochise County without warrant legal

Waiting until you're on your own property before pulling over for police won't save you from having you or your vehicle legally searched.

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May 18, 2018

Lack of resources, care leads to failed Native American schools

Native Americans still lag behind the rest of the country on test scores, graduation rates and school resources.

May 18, 2018

Sports betting ruling has potential for tribes with casinos

American Indian tribes are welcoming an opportunity to offer sports betting in potentially hundreds of casinos across the country after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to legalize it.

May 16, 2018

Ducey vetoes increase in car insurance requirements

Motorists are going to be able to operate their cars and trucks on Arizona roads with the same level of liability insurance they had to purchase in 1972.

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May 16, 2018

New law to force unemployed to take any job

Arizonans who don't take pretty much any job after being out of work for at least four weeks will lose their unemployment benefits.

May 14, 2018

Ducey signs bill to allow hemp farming

Don't be surprised if sometime next year you see acres and acres of what appears to be marijuana growing, unfenced, in the desert.

Dan Hargest (Photo by Carmen Forman/Arizona Capitol Times)
May 14, 2018

Dan Hargest: The man who clothed ‘Red for Ed’

Dan Hargest started screen-printing T-shirts in his back yard in 1999. Nowadays, he's more well-known as the printer who churned out nearly 25,000 “Red for Ed” shirts in the past two months.

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