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Prison panel to focus on 4 key areas
Gov. Katie Hobbs’ prison oversight commission will split into four working groups to develop proposals by the end of the year, advisers said at the newly created commission’s first meeting last week.
Hobbs establishes prison oversight commission to recommend reforms
Gov. Katie Hobbs is calling for a top-to-bottom review of the Arizona prison system, where inmates and their families have complained about a wide range of issues and a federal judge recently found medical care to be “plainly grossly inadequate.” The governor issued an executive order on Wednesday establishing an “independent prison oversight commission” to review problems in the prison sy[...]
Let’s add more independents to the AIRC
Every ten years Arizona remaps its legislative and congressional districts, based on the latest census data. In 2011, many Republicans in Arizona were convinced that the Democrats had gamed the... […]
House panel votes to overhaul ACC qualifications
A House panel voted Tuesday to give Arizonans fewer choices for who gets to set the rates they are charged by their utilities. The measure crafted by Rep. Gail Griffin,... […]
Arizona utility regulators again reject clean energy rules
Arizona's utility regulators have rejected new rules that would have drastically boosted the use of renewable energy for the second time in a year.
