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entrepreneurs, small businesses, city of Phoenix
Nov 28, 2023

Starting a Phoenix business should not take 58 steps

Phoenix should look at consolidating fees and streamlining the building and zoning permit process, which can be lengthy and opaque. Aspiring restaurant owners, for example, must submit seven sets of plans with their applications. This is too much.

Afghanistan, students, Arizona State University, girls, Taliban
Jul 24, 2023

Scholarships have helped displaced Afghan students find homes on university campuses

As the Taliban swept back into power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, Fahima Sultani and her fellow university students tried for days to get into the Kabul airport, only to be turned away by gun-wielding extremists. Nearly two years later, Sultani, now 21, is safely in the U.S. and working toward her bachelor's degree in data science at Arizona State University in Tempe on a scholarship.

Feb 14, 2022

U.S. Rep. Schweikert fined in campaign spending case

Republican Arizona Rep. David Schweikert’s campaign committee has been hit with a $125,000 fine by the Federal Elections Commission for misreporting spending and diverting some campaign funds for personal use.  […]

Aug 1, 2016

School system prepares for K-12 funding overhaul

Each of the special-interest groups within the education system has its own ideas for overhauling the state’s K-12 funding formula.

Nov 6, 2015

Barring disaster, school spending limit unlikely to be reached

A spending cap in the K-12 settlement approved by legislators was pounced on by Democratic lawmakers who say the cap will be used in the future to limit spending on schools.

Jim Swanson, co-chair of a panel looking at school funding, details some of the preliminary findings Tuesday of a plan to redivide how state dollars are divided up. (Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer)
Sep 22, 2015

Classrooms First Council wants K-12 formula overhaul, but details are scarce

Gov. Doug Ducey’s Classrooms First Council, which is charged with overhauling the formulas used to fund public schools, ended its grand unveiling of its finding with more questions than answers. But its members did agree on several broad priorities, including somehow finding a way to equalize the funding formulas between district and charter schools.

Jun 5, 2015

Fixing Arizona education: Outdated spending policies should be scrapped

Arizona’s K-12 education finance system must be reformed. This 35-year-old construct demands a review because structural deficiencies presently create significant distortions.

Dec 2, 2013

Article V constitutional conventions gaining popularity

Blair Henry is a regular guy with big dreams: He wants to amend the U.S. Constitution.

Dec 2, 2013

Extracting funds for K-12

Crandell’s overhaul of school finance plan attracts skepticism and support

It’s a puzzle that has vexed policymakers, education leaders and business groups for decades, but it’s one that Sen. Chester Crandell hopes to solve: How can the state revamp education funding to be both fair and simple?

RUCO Director Patrick Quinn (Photo by Evan Wyloge/Arizona Capitol Times)
Nov 22, 2013

Packing a big punch from a small office

Hours before energy regulators approved a small surcharge on residential solar this month, the head of a little-known consumer advocacy group played wingman to the solar industry’s lawyer.

Nov 20, 2013

Company slows uranium mining in northern Arizona

The only two uranium mines operating in Arizona and an associated mill in southern Utah are set to cease operations temporarily as prices for the ore decline.

Nov 4, 2013

Republican candidates could benefit from their support of Medicaid

When asked how his vote for Medicaid expansion could threaten his chances at another term in the Arizona Legislature, Senate Majority Leader John McComish points to an Arizona Capitol Times newspaper hanging in a frame behind his desk “The risk of defiance,” the headline reads. “What will GOP senators’ ‘no’ votes on immigration bills cost them?”

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