Arizona continues to see a spike in positive COVID-19 cases and health experts say Gov. Doug Ducey sets a bad example by not wearing a mask in public. Arizona reached its second highest day of positive cases June 10, ...
Read More »State asks court to keep elections commission from enforcing some campaign laws
An attorney for the state asked the Arizona Court of Appeals to block the Citizens Clean Elections Commission from enforcing certain laws that regulate how much candidates and others can spend on campaigns.
Read More »Looters beware, legislator wants law to allow shooting them 
A Republican lawmaker who wants to allow business owners to maim or kill looters is under fire from progressive activists who say she’s inciting violence — and from her primary opponent, who says she stole his idea. Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, ...
Read More »Unemployment claims in Arizona decline, still high
Arizona employers continue to lay off workers even with the end of restrictions that Gov. Doug Ducey placed on individuals and businesses. New figures from the Arizona Department of Economic Security show that 23,037 individuals filed for first-time jobless benefits ...
Read More »Hobbs pushes for relocation of confederate monument 
After repeated calls to remove the confederate monument at Wesley Bolin Plaza (near the Arizona Capitol) have fallen short, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has a new plan -- relocate it to the Capitol Museum.
Read More »Doctors sue feds to loosen grip on drug used to prevent COVID-19
A Tucson-based national organization of doctors has sued the federal Department of Health and Human Services for putting roadblocks in the path of physicians who want to prescribe hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19. The lawsuit, filed in Michigan, asks a federal ...
Read More »Ducey won’t renew statewide curfew, National Guard still on duty
Arizonans are now free to stay out all night if they want without fear of arrest.
Read More »Curfew OK for conservatives who opposed stay-at-home order 
Conservatives in the Arizona Legislature who held Gov. Doug Ducey’s feet to the fire over his COVID-19 stay-at-home order have had few qualms with the curfew he ordered in response to looting at a Scottsdale mall, despite his promises that ...
Read More »Arizona virus hospitalizations climb past 1,000, new record
The number of Arizonans hospitalized with positive or suspected cases of COVID-19 shot past 1,000 on June 1, raising questions from the state’s former health chief about whether Gov. Doug Ducey should have abandoned his stay-at-home order. The figure, a ...
Read More »Arizona cities refuse to enforce statewide curfew
A dozen or so Arizona cities and counties have no intention to enforce Gov. Doug Ducey’s statewide curfew he declared on May 31.
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