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Mar 28, 2020

Arizona governor signs stripped-down $11.8 billion budget

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a stripped-down emergency state budget Saturday that contains $50 million in spending to help tenants, homeowners and small businesses weather the coronavirus crisis.

Mar 28, 2020

How Arizona is shaping America’s response to virus crisis

As the nation faces the unprecedented coronavirus health care crisis, Arizona’s innovative spirit and fidelity to our state’s constitutional protections has paved the way for us to have an outsized role in the way Washington is responding.

Mar 27, 2020

Tucson to close some businesses, sets up possible showdown with Ducey, Legislature

The City of Tucson is ordering all businesses not considered “essential” by Gov. Doug Ducey’s recent “essential services” executive order to close starting Saturday morning.

Mar 27, 2020

Lawmakers put pet projects in perspective as virus rages

Lawmakers introduced a record 1,731 pieces of legislation this year, from small tweaks to sweeping changes to state statutes.

Mar 26, 2020

At Healthcare Rising Arizona public health is top priority

While we have paused our signature-gathering campaign, we still believe that we can improve public health in Arizona by passing our measure. The Stop Surprise Billing and Protect Patients Act would crack down on hospital infections, ban surprise bills from “out-of-network” providers, protect coverage for people with so-called “pre-existing conditions,” and give a much-deserved pay raise to[...]

Mar 26, 2020

Coronavirus puts brakes on signature gathering for ballot measures

Initiatives face a strong possibility of not collecting enough signatures to land on the November ballot with the COVID-19 becoming widespread, and the latest projections of cases could mean a shelter-in-place policy is coming.

Mar 25, 2020

COVID-19 cases could peak in April, hospitalizations in May

Arizona’s health director said today statewide cases of COVID-19 will peak in mid to late April and hospitalizations will peak in May.

Mar 24, 2020

Mayors at odds with Ducey’s list of essential services

A new executive order by Gov. Doug Ducey on "essential services'' appears less designed to empower him to force people to stay home than to preclude Arizona cities from once again getting out in front of him on actions to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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Mar 24, 2020

Ducey orders evictions delay as economy plunges amid pandemic

In an attempt to relieve some economic anxiety from the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Doug Ducey issued an executive order delaying the enforcement of eviction orders for renters impacted by it.

Mar 23, 2020

Legislature passes $11.8B budget, $50M for COVID-19 aid

The Arizona Legislature will adjourn until April 13 after lawmakers in the House passed a $50 million deal Monday intended to mitigate the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mar 22, 2020

State to fund hotline mired in controversy for COVID-19 information

The viral pandemic is finally getting the state to fund a hotline that has been mired in controversy for years.

Mar 22, 2020

Ducey: Troops needed for more than grocery help, state ‘catastrophically affected’ by COVID-19

Gubernatorial press aide Patrick Ptak denied late Sunday that his boss was withholding information from the public about conditions in Arizona or the role Ducey wants the Guard to play.

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