Gov. Jan Brewer forcefully declared that her proposal to expand the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System to hundreds of thousands of new patients is a pro-life plan. As a pro-life governor, she said, she will not sit idly by while people suffer. Since then, opponents of her plan have taken up the pro-life mantle in the Legislature.

New homeless programs in Arizona have just received a boost from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Department Secretary Shawn Donovan on Tuesday announced a $2.2 million award for homeless programs in the state.