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Budget season is upon us! Preliminary documents were released to our team last week, and lawmakers have some thoughts.

Phoenix is heating up and the sky may be falling. The state GOP led by Kelli Ward came out in support of a tax hike this week. But is it too late?

Arizona is on its way to joining 47 other states that have banned texting while driving.

Last week, the state struck down a decades-old law prohibiting education around safe homosexual lifestyles. What led to the removal of the so-called “no promo homo” law 28 years later?

Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk has been targeting medical marijuana patients using extracts – until recently anyway. We’ll actually have that story for you this week.

After nearly a year of resisting calls for his resignation, David Stringer has left the House of Representatives. Who will take his place?

Gov. Doug Ducey is poised to appoint more judges than any other governor in the state’s history.

Gov. Doug Ducey gets to choose from among five candidates to be the next justice on Arizona’s Supreme Court.

Another session, another missed opportunity to fully fund special education programs.

The Legislature is contemplating a bill that would diminish the death penalty law for the first time since 1973. And you might be surprised to hear who’s pushing it.