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Senate President Steve Yarbrough (R-Chandler) (Photo by Katie Campbell/Arizona Capitol Times) A Republican proposal to end the dramatic annual growth of tax credits for private school...
Legislative staffers say pro-Trump supporters called them ‘illegal’ for being dark-skinned
Four-year-old Alexander Flores stands with his back to Trump supporters shouting insults at the Capitol on Jan. 25. (Photo courtesy of Marilyn Rodriguez) Editor’s Note: This...
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Legislature passes opioids package
GOP legislator wants to take constant ‘campaign mode’ out of lawmaking
Senate president sees tricky course to rein in tuition tax credit
Altering a cap on corporate tax credits for private school scholarships will require a two-thirds majority vote in both chambers of the Arizona Legislature. That’s no easy task for Senate...
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Senate President willing to consider cap on school tax credits
The architect of an ever-increasing siphoning off of state tax revenues to help send students to private and parochial schools said Thursday he’s now willing to consider a cap —...
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Montenegro resigns Senate seat to concentrate on run for Congress
Steve Montenegro To give his full attention to a congressional run, Sen. Steve Montenegro, R-Litchfield Park, submitted his resignation from the state Senate today, triggering the...
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Dem leader says new Senate harassment policy doesn’t go far enough
Senate Minority Leader Katie Hobbs (Photo by Katie Campbell/Arizona Capitol Times) A move by Senate leadership to update the chamber’s harassment policy is provoking some criticism...
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Political pandemonium in the works in rush to fill vacated congressional seat
Committee of one: Lawmakers lack interest to meet on state income tax credits
(Photo by Ellen O’Brien/Arizona Capitol Times) Apparent indifference has halted a legislative committee required by law to analyze the effectiveness of state income tax credits. The...
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Cathi Herrod The historian Garry Wills once mused how Americans are periodically astonished to see evangelical Christians blazing on the national stage in what he described...