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Flying pickup trucks: New DPS aircraft leave onlookers agape
They have been known to land on rocky “goat fields.” They can haul a bomb robot and move a fully-equipped SWAT team. And best of all, they’re free.
No agreement on how to make a session special
Several sources say that a special session for education funding is likely to occur by the end of the calendar year, and perhaps as soon as next month. What would be debated in that session is less clear, as sources told our reporter that Ducey and Biggs are the driving forces behind that discussion and are still at odds over what lawmakers would consider.
Judges reject plan to ask voters to decide on Glendale council’s casino support
The state Court of Appeals has quashed a bid by a Glendale neighborhood group to force the council to reconsider its support of tribal gaming on the city’s west side.
As millennials tune out, Secretary of State Reagan reaches out to a younger generation
A recent event at a Phoenix Mercury basketball game was a part of a new effort by Secretary of State Michele Reagan to get kids excited about voting. At least for a day, it worked.
Solar groups demand recusals from 3 commissioners
Forese and Little must recuse themselves from the proceeding on APS’s solar fee increase, according to a filing from attorney Hugh Hallman, on behalf of two former commissioners, Renz Jennings and Bill Mundell, and solar company Sunrun.
Tribe plans to proceed with Class II gaming at West Valley casino for now
A federal judge on Thursday refused to immediately order state gaming officials to give the go-ahead for the Tohono O’odham Nation to operate a full-scale casino on the edge of Glendale.
Cap Times Q&A: Petra Falcon – ‘We promised that we would keep fighting’
Petra Falcon is a woman of stories. Stories not just her own, but of the thousands of people she has connected with over the more than 20 years she has spent as a community organizer in Arizona, working with farmworkers, in border towns, and rallying the Hispanic community around civic engagement.
Idea of Western states taking over federal land is back in vogue
Back in the mid-1990s, Republican Sen. Sylvia Allen was a rebel. A Sagebrush Rebel. Long before she was a state lawmaker, Allen was pushing back against environmentalists and the federal government as part of a long-standing movement to force the federal government to turn over federally-managed lands to the Western states.
Per diem payments to industrial commissioners raise eyebrows
There are 251 work days in a calendar year, and some members of the Industrial Commission of Arizona are claiming per diem payments for every one of them and more.
From Streetcar to Sky Train: Arizona Environmental Awards
Arizona Forward announced the winners of its 35th Annual Environmental Excellence Awards on Sept. 12 at Chateau Luxe in Phoenix in partnership with Salt River Project.
In an era of climate change, Arizona needs the Clean Power Plan
Climate change is happening now. We are already experiencing more extreme weather, higher temperatures, drought, flooding, and rising sea levels across the United States.
No mandated minimum wage pay boost for Arizonans this year
Arizona’s 43,000 minimum wage workers are not going to get a government-mandated pay boost in January. And you can blame low oil prices for that.
