If the U.S. Supreme Court returns authority for congressional redistricting to the Legislature, lawmakers will have to become familiar again with a process they haven’t used in nearly a quarter century.

The US Supreme Court hasn’t yet ruled in the redistricting case brought by the Legislature, but Republican leaders are already hiring consultants to work on redrawing the congressional map.

Lawyers for Arizona and the American Civil Liberties Union are asking a federal judge to let them continue trying to settle a legal dispute over a 2014 law targeting so-called revenge porn.

Gov. Doug Ducey and Republican lawmakers like to talk about the hard decisions they had to make regarding where to cut the state budget. But when it comes to their own portions of the state budget, they didn’t cut a dime.

The race to replace Meyer in LD28 is heating up. While Meyer said he is still looking for a Dem who has the bio and can put in the time and effort necessary to hold onto the seat for the party after he is termed out next year, two Republicans are already announcing they want the spot.

Members of Arizona’s business community count Gov. Doug Ducey as one of their own, and the governor did not disappoint them in his first few months in office.

If you are ever asked what you do for a living and you reply, “I am a lobbyist” what usually follows is a rant about how the Legislature can never get anything done, that everything is so partisan and that there is incredible gridlock.

If a little sunshine is the best medicine, Arizona legislators seem afraid to take their proper dosage.

The 2015 legislative session was rough for Arizona towns, cities and counties. Proposals sought to limit local control even as state lawmakers continually railed against federal overreach, city and county officials observed.

“Honeymoon” seems almost too soft a word to use to describe Gov. Doug Ducey’s relationship with the Republican-led Legislature in his first session.