Large manufacturers that produce their own renewable energy may soon save some money on their taxes, as long as they are willing to make a major investment.
Read More »Renewable energy tax credit bill aims to attract major manufacturers
Common Core foes suffer through difficult week 
Common Core opponents took a beating this week when two bills were killed in the Senate followed by a sparsely attended press conference in which one of the Legislature’s most ardent foes of the learning standards was a no-show.
Read More »Anti-Common Core bills defeated in state Senate 
Five Senate Republicans again helped Democrats kill two bills that would have undermined Common Core.
Read More »Center for Arizona Policy faces more scrutiny in the wake of SB1062 
The international furor over SB1062 has led to a reassessment of the Evangelical Christian lobby behind the bill and whose power at the Capitol was considered to be unparalleled. Some said the Center for Arizona Policy and its president, Cathi Herrod, overreached and gave the state a black eye. Others say that even if its influence is undiminished.
Read More »Senate passes bill to help Arizonans survive disastrous electric pulse 
The Senate approved a measure directing Arizona officials to advise residents how to prepare for a disaster of Armageddon-like proportions.
Read More »Senators on SB1062: “We made a mistake” 
A trio of Arizona state senators urged Gov. Jan Brewer to veto a controversial “religious freedom” bill on Monday, just days after all three cast votes in favor of the proposal that opponents say will legalize discrimination.
Read More »Legislative candidates who supported medicaid expansion awash in money 
Republican legislators who are facing a backlash from the conservative right for approving the expansion of Medicaid tapped into a vast network of supporters to easily outraise colleagues and opponents last year.
Read More »Pro-Medicaid expansion lawmakers outraising other candidates 
Republican legislators facing a backlash from the conservative right for approving the expansion of Medicaid tapped into a vast network of supporters to easily outraise colleagues and opponents last year.
Read More »200 border cameras: Worsley proposes virtual fence to monitor illegal immigration 
After three years of jockeying over how to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars raised to construct a fence along Arizona’s border with Mexico, a state lawmaker is proposing to use those funds — and another $30 million — on a virtual fence to patrol the border.
Read More »Medicaid battle causes deep rifts 
When Gov. Jan Brewer used her 2013 State of the State address to announce she wanted to expand Arizona’s Medicaid program, she kicked off a clash that is still reverberating through the Republican Party.
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