Sign In
Free Newsletter
Sit tight, the end is nigh
Some of Brewer’s agency heads and others have been fidgeting over whether they’ll still have jobs under Ducey’s new administration. Last Wednesday, Ducey’s transition team told them to wait a little bit more, although it also looks like they – and those who are seeking jobs in the new administration – will have their answers soon.
Final action: Huppenthal again finds TUSD in violation of ethnic studies law
Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal in the final hours of his administration today again found Tucson Unified School District in violation of a state law forbidding ethnic studies.
Dem compares immigrant proposal to Nazi Germany
Sen. Robert Meza was one of several activists who said Friday that Rep.-elect Jay Lawrence’s proposal to add the words “non citizen” to Dreamers’ driver’s licenses was comparable to Nazi Germany’s efforts to require Jews to wear yellow badges and armbands.
The Mertz Family
This photo shows 444 Monroe Street in downtown Phoenix in 1936. The building in the background is the former convent of the Sisters of the Precious Blood, who taught St. Mary’s Elementary School classes for nearly a century.
New state schools chief Douglas says Common Core changes will be gradual
The state’s new top education official is promising to use her position to push for more money for public schools. But Diane Douglas won’t demand that lawmakers and incoming Gov. Doug Ducey give the schools the $317 million a court has said they’re owed right now, much less than $1 billion they may be owed for the years that schools were shorted.
Brewer granted 6 clemencies in 2014, mostly to dying inmates
Gov. Jan Brewer cut three years off the sentence of a 24-year-old man convicted of manslaughter, the only prisoner she gave mercy to in 2014 who wasn’t dying.
Traffic accident 30 years ago could spare inmate the death penalty
A man who killed two others in a 1989 Tucson drug ripoff will get a chance to escape being executed. In a split decision on Dec. 29, the majority of a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the attorney for Eric Owen Mann failed to investigate the effects that a 1985 traffic accident might have had on him.
New TPT law takes effect, but changes are likely
How much headache can a barrel of screws create? A lot – if you bought them before Jan. 1, 2015, and you happened to be a subcontractor.
Supreme Court Voting Rights Act ruling could help Democrats and lead to more competition
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to lift the requirement that Arizona and other states get federal pre-approval for election law changes could lead to an era of greater competitiveness in the Grand Canyon State’s rigidly partisan legislative districts.
Don’t forget your checkbook
The end of any year is always met with a mix of emotions – gratitude for the things that went well in the previous 12 months, excitement about the upcoming challenges and regret for the things that didn’t go as hoped. For those who make a living in the government affairs arena, there’s an additional emotion: stress stemming from the flurry of legislative fundraisers that take place the first[...]
GOP lawmaker proposes adding ‘non citizen’ to Dreamers’ driver’s licenses
A proposal from a newly elected Republican legislator to add the label “non-citizen” to licenses now being issued to Dreamers is drawing fire from on Democratic legislator as “another SB1070 waiting to happen.”
Medicaid expansion decision could affect a quarter of a million people
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that 36 Republican lawmakers have standing to sue over Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion program, dealing a potentially crushing blow to one of Brewer’s signal accomplishments just days before she leaves office and threatening to take away health care from a quarter million people.
