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Gaming compact amendment could settle Glendale casino dispute
A proposed amendment to Native American nations’ gaming compacts with the state could end a years-long dispute over the Tohono O’odham’s controversial casino in Glendale, but the tribe has not yet agreed to any changes, even as 10 others signed new agreements with Gov. Doug Ducey.
Ducey’s confidence in DES director ‘shaken’
Gov. Doug Ducey said he’s disappointed in what he’s hearing out of the Department of Economic Security and said his confidence in Director Tim Jeffries has been “shaken,” a marked change in tone regarding the embattled agency head and the controversies that have dogged him in recent weeks.
Director disparages, fires DES employee for critical email
A state employee of 22 years was fired from the Department of Economic Security and branded an “idiot” by Director Tim Jeffries after objecting to a news report shared with agency staff that the employee felt was purely political in nature.
Fired state workers call to appeal terminations
Fired state workers who want their terminations reviewed are calling the state Department of Administration after Gov. Doug Ducey pledged to allow employees who felt they were wrongly terminated to appeal the decision.
Case against civil forfeiture law continues even though couple gets seized car back
Navajo County has given up on its bid to seize the vehicle of an elderly Washington couple.
White Cane Day at Capitol challenges assumptions about blind
Tapping white canes and carrying signs reading “white cane = competent traveler,” more than 100 blind people and their advocates stormed the Capitol on October 19 to protest assumptions about, and state practices regarding, the blind.
Court mandates new recovery plan for Mexican gray wolves
Federal wildlife officials are now under a court order to update a decades-old recovery plan for the endangered Mexican gray wolf, a predator that has struggled to regain a foothold in the American Southwest despite millions of dollars of investment in reintroduction efforts.
Ducey administration increases number of firings
Gov. Doug Ducey's administration is stepping up the firing of state workers, many of whom can be let go without explanation under a law enacted during his predecessor's administration that revamped the state's personnel system.
Departments jockey to create the most compelling pleas for money
A new helicopter, more prison beds, money to pay utility bills – state agencies sent the Governor’s Office their annual budget requests detailing big and small priorities they hope the governor will include in his executive budget proposal to lawmakers in January.
Court to hear arguments in appeal by fired state workers
Appellate judges will hear arguments Oct. 20 in an appeal by five former state child welfare employees who contend they were wrongly fired in 2014 amid an agency scandal.
Decimated Department of Revenue down to four auditors
The agency in charge of making sure the state has the resources to operate at “the speed of business,” as Gov. Doug Ducey wants it to, has only four auditors monitoring thousands of corporations, the agency’s former chief economist said today.
Self-immolation, DOR style?
Are the wheels coming off of the Dept of Revenue? Georganna Meyer, the agency’s former chief economist who is now a senior economist at the Maguire Company, said historically, DOR would have about 30 corporate auditors monitoring between 50,000 and 60,000 companies.
