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Chester Crandell

Mar 18, 2014

Arizona Senate votes down 4 conservative bills

The Arizona Senate on Monday voted against four conservative Republican bills targeting employee unions and a set of educational standards known nationally as Common Core.

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Mar 17, 2014

Anti-Common Core bills defeated in state Senate

Five Senate Republicans again helped Democrats kill two bills that would have undermined Common Core.

Mar 4, 2014

Senate panel kills bill requiring local permission for federal law efforts

Arizona Senate bills requiring federal agents to register with a local sheriff and barring federal officials from making arrests without the sheriff's permission have essentially been killed over constitutional concerns.

Feb 4, 2014

Arizona GOP lawmakers take aim at feds once again

Three proposals show the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature's penchant for wagging its finger at the federal government is far from satisfied despite rebukes from federal courts on the state's efforts to control immigration reform and push the limits of abortion restrictions.

Feb 3, 2014

Chicken bill advances: Panel approves ‘Homegrown Freedom Act’

An Arizona Senate panel advanced a bill that will allow a chicken in every backyard, despite the objections of Chandler city officials concerned with how modern neighborhoods will adjust to farm animals.

Jan 24, 2014

Fine-tuning last year’s oversights and unintended consequences

When it comes to cleaning up legislation, there’s always an opportunity next year, which is the case with these bills that were heavily vetted and debated in 2013, but still require some fine-tuning in the 2014 legislative session.

Dec 2, 2013

Extracting funds for K-12

Crandell’s overhaul of school finance plan attracts skepticism and support

It’s a puzzle that has vexed policymakers, education leaders and business groups for decades, but it’s one that Sen. Chester Crandell hopes to solve: How can the state revamp education funding to be both fair and simple?

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Nov 29, 2013

Capitol Quotes: Nov. 29, 2014

This week's most outstanding political quips, gibes and utterances.

Arizona charter schools oppose more state regulation
Jul 24, 2013

Costs soar for new Common Core achievement test

The cost per student for the new test to measure progress under Common Core is nearly 50 per cent more than the AIMS test, causing sticker shock among some lawmakers and advocates for the learning standards.

Rep. David Livingston (R-Peoria)
Jul 5, 2013

Livingston scores a perfect legislative batting average

The award for best legislative batting average for the session — the calculation of bills introduced versus bills signed into law — goes to Rep. David Livingston, a freshman Republican lawmaker from Peoria who has been vocally critical of the governor.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (Photo by Ryan Cook/RJ Cook Photography)
Jul 5, 2013

Moratorium leads to near-record number of Brewer vetoes

The bill moratorium that rankled lawmakers as Gov. Jan Brewer started applying pressure to pass her Medicaid expansion plan helped push her to a near-record number of vetoes in 2013.

Brewer vetoed 26 bills this year, the second highest total of her career, behind the 29 she rejected in 2011.

May 28, 2013

After losing control of Senate, Biggs looks on as new majority emerges

The Arizona Senate’s passage of a budget plan that includes Medicaid expansion on May 16 was a tremendous victory for Gov. Jan Brewer, as well as the lawmakers who stuck their necks out for the governor — most notably Senate Majority Leader John McComish, who sponsored the amendment that added expansion to the budget plan.

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