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Arizona may have to fight again for Medicaid expansion when Trump takes office
After President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning upset over Hillary Clinton, former Gov. Jan Brewer, a staunch Trump supporter, indicated she is willing to fight anew for Medicaid expansion.
After fainting, Brewer had to view Trump celebration from emergency room
When Donald Trump was giving his victory speech, cheerleader Jan Brewer was in a hospital emergency room, straining to watch what was happening on the TV on the wall.
A look at Arizona election winners, losers
Election Day in Arizona saw Republicans winning the presidential vote despite Democratic efforts to tap into the state's growing demographic shift, a GOP sweep of statewide utility regulator races, and a sturdy defense of a swing congressional district in southern Arizona.
Brewer defends Trump’s comments on challenging election results
Donald Trump’s chief Arizona surrogate is defending his comments that he won’t commit to abiding by the results of the election.
Trump allies defend allegations of ‘rigged’ election – but say it won’t happen here
Top allies of Donald Trump in Arizona said they don’t believe the 2016 presidential election will be rigged, but defended the GOP nominee over a slew of remarks that have drawn condemnation from Republicans across the country, including some supporters.
Joe Kanefield: A winding road from Republican to Democrat to Republican
It was the impeachment of former Gov. Evan Mecham that first interested Kanefield in government. More than two decades later he, too, would find himself in the midst of divisive controversies at the Capitol.
A timeline – the tumultuous legal life of Arizona’s SB1070
Six years after its enactment, Arizona’s most famous anti-illegal immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, is now but a shell of its old self. The courts have defanged it, and a settlement reached recently between the state and its critics further defined and limited how the police may enforce it.
Arizona governors offer advice to Trump
As Republicans gather in Cleveland, three Arizona governors say they know what it will take for Donald Trump to unite the party behind him: Focus.
Jan Brewer is Cleveland-bound, after all
Brewer, perhaps Trump’s most prominent and vocal surrogate in Arizona, will join the state’s delegation to the Republican National Convention after all, if only as an alternate.
Ted Simons: After decades in the media, a show that’s a perfect fit
As the host and managing editor of “Arizona Horizon,” Ted Simons sits down each night with some of the state’s heaviest hitters, from governors to state and local lawmakers.
Despite concerns, firings haven’t increased since 2012 personnel reform
A massive personnel reform package pushed through the Legislature by Brewer in 2012 dramatically shifted the balance of power between the state and its employees. The law made most new employees at-large, or “uncovered,” and required covered employees to give up their merit protection in order to receive promotions or raises. Covered employees were offered bonuses to entice them to switch to u[...]
Superior Court judge upholds Brewer’s Medicaid expansion
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge upheld former Gov. Jan Brewer’s 2013 Medicaid expansion plan, ruling that a hospital assessment that funds the program is not subject to a provision in the Arizona Constitution that requires a two-thirds vote in the Legislature for a tax increase.
