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Senate to vote on taking power from regulators

Rejecting arguments about economic development, clean air and even constitutional issues, a Senate panel voted along party lines March 31 to strip the Arizona Corporation Commission of its power to set energy...

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Gambling bill stalls in senate as politics take shape

Arizona Diamondbacks left fielder Tim Locastro dives but cannot get to a ball hit for a single by Seattle Mariners’ Sam Haggerty in the third inning...

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Rosy state revenues belie need for recovery package

The COVID-19 virus might not have dissipated over the summer, but the specter of a billion-dollar deficit and draconian budget cuts not seen since the Great Recession certainly did. The...

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Democrats offer plan to raise $4 billion for education

In response to education funding plans proposed by the governor and legislative Republicans, Democrats today released their own school funding plan, boasting that their proposal would raise nearly $4 billion...

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Yuma lawmaker plans e-cigarette taxation legislation

In light of devastating projections of a $1.5 billion budget shortfall in the current and next fiscal years, a Democratic lawmaker is proposing a tax on e-cigarettes, saying that the...

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Brewer threatens vetoes until budget work finished

Gov. Jan Brewer (Photo by Ryan Cook/RJ Cook Photography) Gov. Jan Brewer is threatening to veto any legislation that hits her desk before lawmakers finish the...

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Senate panel to review $9.24B Arizona budget plan

(From left) Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, Rep. David Gowan, R-Sierra Vista, and House Speaker Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, watch as the Arizona House of Representatives votes...

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Senate panel moves budget forward, but questions go unanswered

The state Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a $9.13 billion budget package for fiscal 2015 on Tuesday afternoon, with all votes breaking on party lines as the chamber’s Republican majority took...

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Brewer again rallies Medicaid supporters at Capitol

[caption id="attachment_59387" align="alignleft" width="575" caption="Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer advocates for extending Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of low-income residents on the Capitol lawn Wednesday (right), while critics decry her...

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