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Governor’s office won’t release McKay whistleblower letter
The Governor’s Office is refusing to make public a whistle-blower complaint the Department of Child Safety’s general counsel made against the agency’s newly appointed director Greg McKay.
The plan is to wait for the plan
The governor’s office today (March 17) insisted that there’s no immediate need for additional legislation this year to start implementing Ducey’s Access Our Best Public Schools Fund, under which members of a new achievement district have access to $24 million to construct new schools or expand existing facilities.
New legislation not needed for achievement district, Ninth Floor says
Now that the budget includes $24 million for Gov. Doug Ducey’s Arizona Public School Achievement District plan, the Ninth Floor said no additional legislation is needed for the governor to put his marquee education plan into action.
GOP passes bills with elements from repealed election law
Republican lawmakers have approved key provisions of a sweeping Arizona election law that the Legislature abandoned last year after opponents took steps to repeal it.
House committee OKs bill for voters to kill Clean Elections
A House committee has passed a measure asking voters to eliminate the Citizens Clean Elections Commission.
Senate committee set to hear bills to buy back federal land
A Senate committee is set to hear three proposals to transfer federal public lands to the state.
Arizona House set to debate abortion restrictions bill
The Arizona House is set to debate a bill barring women from buying any health care plan through the federal marketplace that includes abortion coverage.
No longer doing it for the children
Opponents of SCR1001 (Clean Elections repeal; education funding), which would ask voters in 2016 to repeal Clean Elections and sweep its annual funding of about $9 million into the Dept of Education, have accused advocates of forcing voters into an unfair choice between a popular public campaign funding program and K-12 education.
Arizona judges can’t do only opposite-sex marriages, ethics opinion says
Arizona judges who perform wedding ceremonies in Arizona are being told that they cannot turn away gay couples who want to marry.
You don’t need a crystal ball to predict this
Rather than wait for its next regular rate case, APS will soon seek to increase the solar surcharge adopted by the Corp Comm in 2013 by as much as 400 percent, Tell Utilities Solar Won’t be Killed said today (March 13).
Corrections Dept. gets $12M to meet inmates’ class action settlement
The Arizona Department of Corrections will have an extra $12 million during the next fiscal year to meet requirements of a far-reaching agreement to settle a class-action suit brought by the state’s nearly 34,000 prisoners. The department began taking steps to comply a year ago.
FCC v. ADOC: Battle over price cap on prison phone calls’ link to recidivism
The federal government wants to regulate in-state prisoner phone calls as a way to keep families in touch with their incarcerated loved ones. The Arizona Department of Corrections is fighting the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed regulation for the sake of maintaining schooling and other services for prisoners.
