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Elections officials mull criminal probes of forgeries
Elections officials said they will likely refer several campaigns that have been implicated for fraud and forgery to law enforcement for further investigation. At least four candidates whose nominating petitions...
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Pay hike flap leaves rank and file lawmakers with little to do
Eileen Klein named state treasurer
Gov. Doug Ducey tapped former Arizona Board of Regents President Eileen Klein to serve as state treasurer on April 17 until the November election. Klein unexpectedly resigned from the board...
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Politicians block constituents’ speech on social media
Some politicians block spam accounts on social media. Some block corporations or trolls. But some Arizona lawmakers block their constituents, something First Amendment experts say may be unconstitutional. And many...
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Most medical marijuana bills go up in smoke; Senate OKs 1
(Deposit Photos/Uros Poteko) Legislators have introduced a swath of bills aimed at amending the state’s voter-protected Medical Marijuana Act, but getting the necessary votes to pass...
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Ducey outraises 2 Dem foes combined in gubernatorial race
Gov. Doug Ducey (Photo by Katie Campbell/Arizona Capitol Times) Gov. Doug Ducey raised more than $2 million more than his Democratic competitors for the 2018 governor’s...
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Democrat Cardenas enters race for state treasurer
Time has come to modernize the nation’s obsolete air traffic control system
Like so much of our nation’s critical infrastructure, our country’s air traffic control system is obsolete. For the two million Americans and thousands of Arizonans who fly every day, the...
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State employees, retirees will pay for health insurance trust sweeps
Arizona state employees will pay higher premiums and copays for health insurance next year, and some lawmakers say funding sweeps approved by the Republican-controlled state Legislature are partly to blame....
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State retirement fund invests in private prisons that hold large contracts
The Arizona State Retirement System has invested in the country’s largest private prison operators, which also hold state contracts. The state pension fund owns 49,800 shares of CoreCivic, formerly Corrections...
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National popular vote and other ideas that did not make the cut
By the time this year’s legislative session adjourned sine die, lawmakers passed 395 out of 1,180 bills, memorials and resolutions. Here are a handful of the roughly 70 percent of...
