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County mired in frivolous lawsuits, sketchy hire
We’re peeved about the costly elections-related tussles in Cochise County: failed attempts to conduct an illegal 100% hand count of ballots; a lawsuit filed by two supervisors during an Open Meeting Law violation to compel our elections director to break the law; the intentional delay of canvassing election results and the transfer of election duties to our partisan election skeptic recorder.
Crash closes section of freeway from Arizona to New Mexico
A fiery semi-tractor trailer crash early Wednesday damaged an overpass pillar in southeastern Arizona and closed a section of Interstate 10 from Willcox to the New Mexico state line, authorities said.
Hobbs vetoes bill to bar cities from taxing residential rentals
Calling it a flawed solution to the housing crisis, Gov. Katie Hobbs on Thursday vetoed legislation to bar cities from taxing residential rentals.
Let’s let PSPRS wither away
The single best thing that could be done for Arizona cities when federal stimulus money arrives Governor Ducey, would be for the state to pay the next six months of the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System, or PSPRS, payments for any city that requests it.
Lawmaker in feud with Glendale proposes pay cap for city workers
A state senator at odds with his own city government wants to cap salaries for municipal employees throughout the state, a move city officials say could hobble efforts to attract and retain good government workers.
Republican lawmaker takes aim at public schools
Rep. Kelly Townsend wants school district employees and board members investigated at the whim of any legislator who questions the legality of their policies.
The Sanitary Milk Crusade
“Local Milk Fails the Standards” announced the headline of the Bisbee Daily Review on June 18, 1914. The following day more alarming news greeted citizens as they read: “Conditions of... […]
Cochise County Attorney Allen R. English
Allen Robert English, born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1858, earned a law degree by age 19. His father was a well-to-do shipbuilder and his mother was from a pioneer Irish... […]
Nick Ponder: Man about cities and towns and lobbying
Nick Ponder, the new legislative director at the League of Arizona Cities and Towns, said his goal is to reintroduce the organization to the Capitol community.
Legislators’ complaints of lawbreaking by cities on the upswing
Bisbee is one of eight municipalities or counties in the state whose laws have been targeted by state legislators under SB1487, a 2016 law that allows any state legislator to ask the attorney general to investigate an ordinance.
Bisbee to change disposable bag ordinance to duck budget hit
The City Council's decision late Monday responds to state Attorney General Mark Brnovich's recent conclusion that Bisbee's ban violates an Arizona law barring local governments from imposing regulatory mandates on disposable bags.
AG rules Bisbee bag ban illegal
The finding is the latest loss for Bisbee, which prohibited local retailers from providing single-use plastic bags to customers in 2014. State lawmakers then banned such local ordinances the following year, and now the attorney general has weighed in following a complaint from Sen. Warren Petersen, a Gilbert Republican.
