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Sold! State auctions off cop cars, baseball bats and other old stuff
Standing on back of a golf cart equipped with a platform, microphone and pair of mounted speakers, Darren Shumway cruised through the lanes of hundreds of state-owned vehicles – mostly old cop cars, heavy American work trucks and a few Jeep Cherokees.
Corporation Commission responds to critics
The Arizona Corporation Commission is pushing back against the narrative that energy regulators are beholden to the utilities.
The Governor’s Race (for the train)
The bald pate and rotund body seen here on the Capitol veranda is that of George W. P. Hunt, photographed on Valentine’s Day, 1912, delivering his inaugural address as the state’s first governor.
Why sit on our assets?
Ducey today (June 4) unveiled his proposal to provide more funding for K-12 education by increasing the amount of money that schools receive from the state’s Permanent Land Endowment Trust Fund, which contains the proceeds from the sale of state trust land.
Fixing Arizona education: Outdated spending policies should be scrapped
Arizona’s K-12 education finance system must be reformed. This 35-year-old construct demands a review because structural deficiencies presently create significant distortions.
EPA tells Arizona: Not a drop is yours!
Once again the bright lights are shown on the caricature of the federal government regulating everything from cradle to grave – only this time it is from stock pond to ditch.
12 years and counting: Child safety backlog continues to grow
On May 28, the director of the state Department of Child Safety acknowledged that backlogs are growing again at the agency. Greg McKay told a legislative oversight committee that the number of hotline reports the agency receives each month is greater than the number of reports the staff can close.
Regulation taking back seat at Registrar of Contractors
Recent comments and actions by the new director of the Registrar of Contractors are raising concerns that regulation and enforcement are becoming less stringent under the new administration.
FBI agent’s description raises question about whether aborted baby was born alive
The doctor who performed the abortion on a woman who stands accused of swindling taxpayers for the procedure may have broken a state law that requires doctors to try and resuscitate babies who survive.
Ducey Land Department plan expected to bring $2.2 billion for schools
Gov. Doug Ducey wants increase the amount of money K-12 schools receive from sales of state trust land, which he expects to provide an additional $2.2 billion over 10 years without raising taxes or taking money from elsewhere in the general fund.
Doctors, Planned Parenthood challenge medication abortion law
A group of doctors and Planned Parenthood Arizona filed suit today to challenge a law requiring doctors to tell women medication abortions can be reversed.
Ducey will seek more trust land money for schools
Ducey’s office today (June 3) called a meeting of education officials, during which he laid out a plan to increase the amount of money from trust land sales that goes to K-12, according to a source familiar with the governor’s plans.
