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Project aims to improve courts by making them resemble the community
During the four decades of merit selection for judges in Arizona’s most populous counties, the number of women and minorities serving in judicial positions has increased gradually. The Arizona Judicial Diversity Project was launched in February to maintain this upward trajectory of increasing diversity, which former Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor says results in a better-funct[...]
Prosecutor Montgomery urges judge to let smuggling law stand
The top county prosecutor in metropolitan Phoenix is urging a judge to reject the Obama administration's request to throw out Arizona's law banning immigrant smuggling.
S1062 becomes focal point of Sec. of State race
Goddard went a bit off-topic with his first general election ad today, which features a lesbian couple criticizing Reagan for her vote last year on the controversial S1062.
After 33 years, class-action suit seeking care for the seriously mental ill comes to a successful end
In 1980, local mental health experts came together to draft what became known as Senate Bill 1057, a proposed statute intended to create a responsive and accessible community-based system for persons with serious mental illness.
Official: Southwest border focus is on immigrant children, not ISIS
The head of Customs and Border Protection said there is no evidence of ISIS attempts to infiltrate the Southwest border and his agency is more focused on trying to prevent more unaccompanied minor immigrants.
Arizona-Mexico border crosser deaths down
Pima County officials say the number of people dying while crossing the border into the Arizona desert is down from previous years.
Will Rogers, Jr.
Born in New York in 1911 when his famous father, the humorist Will Rogers, was starring in the Ziegfeld Follies, William Vann Rogers Jr. grew up in the house that is the centerpiece of Will Rogers State Historic Park.
Kirkpatrick’s boots become a metaphor for the fight in CD1
The air war in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District has officially begun, with both candidates airing their own introductory TV ads, and their respective party’s independent expenditure groups taking on the role of attack dogs in a string of commercials blaring from TVs across the sprawling district.
Despite all the sunshine, Arizona falls below the national happiness average
Money may or may not be able to buy happiness. But a new WalletHub report shows that, on average, Arizonans are somewhat less happy with their lives than much of the rest of the nation. And part of the state’s ranking at No. 31 is because income is below the national average and is not growing.
Campaign finance law may contain coordination loophole
A provision of Arizona’s recent campaign finance overhaul may allow people to sidestep the state’s anti-coordination laws and move from a campaign to an independent expenditure with ease once the primary election is over.
Capitol Quotes: Sept. 26, 2014
This week's most outstanding quotes from Arizona's political stage.
Governor’s team completes its examination of child welfare cases
A special team formed by Gov. Jan Brewer to address 6,596 reports of neglect and abuse that child-welfare workers set aside without investigating has finished examining the cases.
