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Lawmakers this afternoon voiced their displeasure with the progress, or lack thereof, at DCS in the tenure of Director Greg McKay. At a JLBC hearing, lawmakers cast a bipartisan vote to accept a DCS report on the agency’s progress towards benchmarks set for the first quarter of FY2016 with an “unfavorable review.”

Speculation building about Schweikert for Senate

Biggs, E. Farnsworth and Peterson today announced their plans to defund Planned Parenthood facilities in the wake of renewed calls here and nationally to put a financial squeeze on the organization. In a news release, the trio said they would sponsor the legislation in 2016. However, the lawmakers didn’t specify how.

Former superintendents and current Ducey allies Lisa Graham Keegan and Jaime Molera are considering filing a complaint with the AG over DeWit’s use of a private attorney in his opposition to Prop 123, Molera told our reporter yesterday. To read ...

At a sunset review hearing today, House com and Senate com-work dev rejected the Commerce Authority’s request for an eight-year continuation, opting instead for a two-year continuation that would be contingent on a number of “reforms.” To read more on ...

SolarCity is one of the funders of a nonprofit that provides most of the support for Checks and Balances Project, the group that has been investigating the Corp Comm and possible ties between utilities and commissioners. To read more on ...

The AG’s case against Bitter Smith hinges on her ties to companies that either are regulated or have subsidiaries or affiliates that are regulated by the Corp Comm. But one source said Brnovich either deliberately avoided or failed to note ...

The Legislative Council met yesterday to adopt its analysis of Prop 123, the K-12 settlement deal that will appear in May’s special election, and the point of contention was whether the election’s publicity pamphlet should include the fact that the ...

As previously noted, Brnovich’s decision to seek Bitter Smith’s ouster from the commission stemmed from a complaint that attorney Tom Ryan filed against the commissioner. But what’s not included in Brnovich’s Nov. 30 petition to the court is a key ...

Ward today announced that she’s resigning her LD5 Senate seat on December 15 to focus exclusively on her primary challenge to McCain in next year’s US Senate race. In a news release, Ward said she knew it was going to ...