Douglas wants more than Ducey’s funding assurances for unfinished IT work
Ducey’s assurance isn’t enough, said Douglas’s spokesman, Stefan Swiat. The department wants the governor’s office and the Arizona Legislature to publicly spell out how much exactly they will set aside for the IT needs, he said.
Trump’s immigration crackdown puts the spotlight on Ducey, local police
Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants puts the spotlight on border governors like Doug Ducey, who must decide whether to fully cooperate with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and allow their state’s law enforcers to act as immigration agents.
Ducey signs bill clearing way for San Tan Valley incorporation
Residents of the San Tan Valley are now free to try to incorporate their area as a new city.
Ask, and ye shall receive suggestions
Ducey last month asked Arizonans to tell him what regulations they want sent to the scrap heap, and the people delivered. Some want Ducey to roll back environmental regulations. Others want to make it easier to do their jobs and be subject to less regulatory oversight.
First Democrat to challenge Ducey talks about sex life, debt
Dyer preemptively listed all details about his background, including the not-so-savory ones, in a lengthy press kit.
Governor appoints former lawmaker Adam Driggs as judge
Ducey announced the appointment Monday, noting Driggs' experience as an attorney and lawmaker.
The value of the governor’s proposal to expand full-day kindergarten
We applaud Governor Ducey on embracing the importance of expanding access to high-quality full day kindergarten and urge members of the Arizona Legislature to join in his commitment to advocating for Arizona’s neediest students.
Arizona legislators desire tax carve out for all that glitters
Arguing that federal policies have made paper money “virtually worthless,” Arizona lawmakers are moving to allow residents to invest in gold coins and not have to pay state taxes on any profits they make when they sell them.
Ducey: Newborn screening would spare these families from heartbreak and turmoil
It took multiple hospitalizations for various ailments – and hundreds of thousands of dollars – to figure out what was happening to Angel Cortez-Pirie.
House panel approves poverty benefits extension, but with strings attached
An Arizona House panel approved a bill that would allow people living in poverty to receive cash assistance for longer.
Bill advances that could jeopardize more than $200 million in desegregation funds
At a time when Gov. Doug Ducey boasted more than $100 million in new investments for education in his budget plan, a Senate panel advanced a bill that could put roughly double that amount of school funding in jeopardy.
Ducey, not Brnovich, is fighting case on immigrants’ driver licenses
Gov. Doug Ducey’s repeated assertions that he is not the one fighting to keep “deferred action” recipients from getting licenses to drive are not true, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Friday.