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Lawmaker wants referendum on future of public financing for campaigns
A state lawmaker wants Arizona voters to decide whether to eliminate public funding for political campaigns, a change that would do away with the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission.
Clean Elections requires candidates to buy or return equipment
The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission approved a rule change Thursday that would require candidates to turn over laptops and other fixed assets exceeding $200 or purchase them at half of the original price.
A trimmer Tucson? Pima County out to help residents get active, shed pounds
Looking out on downtown from her second-floor office at the YMCA of Southern Arizona, Annemarie Medina could be any other person with a desk job. Except that her desk is waist high and she’s climbing on a stepping machine while she checks e-mail.
Bill would require return of equipment bought with Clean Elections money
A Democratic lawmaker wants to require publicly funded candidates to give computers, printers, cameras and other fixed assets purchased with Clean Elections money to the state or buy them at a reduced price.
Some say ‘incentives,’ others call them ‘bribes’
Like many public-private partnerships, the Arizona Commerce Authority will be responsible not only for attracting new businesses, but also for doling out incentives. Others say the incentives many states use to lure new companies ignore the needs of businesses already in the state, especially small businesses, while paying their competition to move in next door.
Fresh out of budget solutions, lawmakers warm up to trickery
Weary of scrounging for solutions to a relentless financial mess, some Arizona lawmakers have changed from criticizing budget gimmicks to shrugging and accepting probably the most blatant one of all.
Dear supreme court liberals, XOXO, love Nick
Goldwater Institute attorney Nick Dranias said he crafted his recently filed matching funds arguments with a very specific audience in mind: the U.S. Supreme Court’s more liberal members.
Legislators seek constitutional amendment to limit federal borrowing
If the federal government wants to borrow money, states should have a say in it, Republican lawmakers and a representative of the Goldwater Institute said Wednesday morning.
Shadegg named fellow at Goldwater Institute
The Goldwater Institute has named retiring U.S. Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona as a senior fellow.
Former Senate aide, lobbyist Christopher Smith dies
Christopher Smith, a former Senate staff member and capitol lobbyist, died Saturday, Dec. 18 in Phoenix.
Brewer preparing proposal on state employee system
Gov. Jan Brewer plans to propose significant changes to the state's personnel system, possibly including a reduction of current job protections held by many workers.
Vogt looking to raise campaign cash limits, but Clean Elections may be an obstacle
Arizona’s Clean Elections system may rise from the dead just long enough to slap the people who are dancing on its grave.
Rep. Ted Vogt, a Tucson Republican, plans to introduce a bill that would drastically raise the campaign contribution limits for privately funded candidates. But the voter-approved law that created the Clean Elections system may require a three-fourths vote in the L[...]
