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DINO committee made its return in 2025, with much better results than 2023
Key Points: The Senate Committee on Director Nominations resumed this session Twelve nominees were ultimately confirmed, but six agencies are still without permanent leadership Hobbs blames “partisan agenda,” Hoffman claims […]
Hobbs’ nominee at insurance and finance department rejected by Senate on party line vote
Key Points: The Senate voted to reject the nomination of Barbara Richardson to lead the Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions The full chamber vote came one month after Richardson […]
Hoffman pushes renomination of holdover state agency heads
The chairman of the Senate Committee on Director Nominations has proposed a law that would require director nominees who served under a previous governor’s administration to be renominated by the […]
Public records access is ‘stacked against the citizen’
Arizona public records law allows individuals to submit a public records request through any means, but public records experts point out that many agencies often require additional steps that can slow a request being fulfilled.
Agencies use delays to thwart public records requests
Arizona’s public bodies often use delay tactics and loose interpretations of the state’s public records laws to avoid transparency, First Amendment lawyers say.
Ducey’s budget proposes funds for new and expanded programs
While nearly half the $12.3 billion is going to K-12 education, the proposed spending plan by Gov. Doug Ducey also carves out dollars for some new and expanded programs and priorities.
State agencies must inventory car fleets, cut back under proposed law
Arizona lawmakers want to find out whether every employee who has a state-issued car actually needs one.
Auditor: Admin staffing in child-safety agency reasonable
State auditors are giving a thumbs-up to the amount of administrative staffing in a high-profile social service agency.
County recorders call relationship with Secretary of State ‘dire’
Arizona’s 15 county recorders this week delivered a letter to Secretary of State Michele Reagan in which they said communication between their offices and hers are “in a dire state” because state Election Director Eric Spencer has been “ineffective and disrespectful.”
Office babies: Ducey wants to let more parents bring infants to work
Gov. Doug Ducey wants the Infant at Work program, currently in place at Health Services and the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, to expand to other state agencies, citing the program as a “win-win-win” for parents, babies and employers.
Jack August, beloved chronicler of the Southwest, dies
Dr. Jack August, historian and biographer of many prominent Arizonans, died Friday at age 63.
Secretary of State floats election law overhaul
Secretary of State Michele Reagan has begun circulating a memo detailing a proposed overhaul of the laws governing virtually every aspect of how elections are conducted in Arizona, from data protocols and recount procedures, to "sore loser" candidates and voter fraud investigations.
