Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae has opened a mortgage help center to help struggling homeowners with loans owned by the company.

As soon as First Things First survived the Legislature’s bid to dismantle the agency and take its money, the program had a surprising message for its would-be executioners: We’re willing to help.

Opponents of a measure to legalize medical marijuana in Arizona have seen their advantage shrink as election officials continue to count ballots.

Opponents of a measure to legalize medical marijuana in Arizona saw their advantage grow slightly Saturday as election officials continue to count ballots.

2010 Ballot Measures Results as of 5p.m. Nov. 4

Arizona fought California and the feds to win 1.6 million acre feet of water supplies that we pump into the Valley each year. We can take on these fights and win, but not with a bunch of bureaucrats and watercrats.

I will be voting no in November on Proposition 109. This proposition to amend the state Constitution is nothing more than power grab by politicians to take away voter-initiative rights and put all wildlife-management decisions in their hands.

A proposition to make hunting, fishing and lawfully harvesting wildlife constitutional rights in Arizona has nearly equal support and opposition among voters most likely to cast a ballot Nov. 2.

Although utility deregulation was a colossal failure in California, Libertarian Rick Fowlkes says turning the energy industry over to the free market in Arizona will be his top priority if he is elected to the Corporation Commission this November.

Union Pacific Railroad says it is restarting track improvement projects in California and Arizona that were put on hold because of the recession.