Arizona’s opt-out eliminates physician safeguard during surgery
Community members, lawmakers, people of Arizona, I beg you to ask yourselves: who do you want in charge of your anesthesia care? If it was your family member, your child, your spouse, your parent – would you want a physician in charge of the anesthetic care, or a nurse working alone?
Night clubs, bars in state’s sights as businesses reopen
Two state agencies are scouting Old Town Scottsdale and Mill Avenue in Tempe for businesses that violate restrictions enacted to prevent further COVID-19 spread.
Unemployment fund expected to dry up in weeks
Hundreds of thousands of unemployed Arizonans are within weeks of losing more than half of their benefits.
Arizona State shifts housing plans amid COVID-19 case rise
Arizona State University has announced that some students living on the college campus will be moved because of an increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Governor adds time to renew driver’s licenses
Arizonans whose licenses are set to expire will be on the road for another year without having to get a new license — or, for seniors, the eye test that... […]
Ducey defends barefaced attendance at RNC
The state's top health official said Monday said she's not concerned that nationally televised photos of Gov. Doug Ducey barefaced at a Trump campaign event undermines the state's $3 million "mask up'' campaign.
Nursing homes, assisted living centers make plans for in-person visits
Sometime this coming week you'll find out when you can finally visit grandma in the nursing home.
Clean energy investment, economic development go hand-in-hand
When we talk about clean and renewable energy, it is important to recognize that clean energy investment and economic development are not mutually exclusive — in fact, to the contrary, the two go hand-in-hand.
State gives bars green light to open in 9 counties
As of right now, bars in nine of the state’s 15 counties can reopen. But don’t expect them to look and operate the way they did before the governor ordered... […]
Bars can’t convince Supreme Court to hear case on reopening
Rebuffed by the Arizona Supreme Court, more than 100 bar owners are now taking their claims against Gov. Doug Ducey to a trial judge.
Movie theaters begin reopening with lower capacity
If sitting in a dark room to be entertained with a bucket of popcorn and an oversize container of soda in your lap is your idea of a good time,... […]
Let us not suspend academic expectations
If we don’t continue to expect and insist that our students demonstrate significant learning, I don’t believe we can genuinely say that we love them.