Saying magistrates can be squeezed politically, a House panel voted Wednesday to all but strip city councils of their ability to fire them.
Read More »Bill gives citizens right to sue schools, cities over elections
Saying state and county prosecutors may balk, a House panel voted Tuesday to let anyone file suit to claim that public dollars are being used to influence elections.
Read More »Multi-housing lobby seeks state-only purview of landlord-tenant relations
Republican lawmakers agreed Thursday to put new limits on the regulations that cities and counties can enact on landlords.
Read More »Dems: House restriction on debate silences minority
House Republicans voted Jan. 28 to limit the amount of time lawmakers can speak in debate, a move Democrats say is an attempt to silence the minority party.
Read More »GOP lawmakers question lack of tax conformity details in Ducey budget
Republican lawmakers Tuesday balked at Gov. Doug Ducey’s plan to keep tax conformity out of his executive budget and then squirrel away its potential revenue windfall into the state’s rainy-day fund.
Read More »Speaker, some lawmakers resistant to Ducey’s push to end legislative immunity
A proposal by Gov. Doug Ducey to abolish so-called legislative immunity is getting some negative reaction from some lawmakers who enjoy its protections -- and would have to vote to put it on the ballot for voters to repeal.
Read More »Legislator seeks to curb teen use of e-cigarettes
Calling the current law fatally flawed and ineffective, a veteran lawmaker wants the state to impose far more restrictions on access to vaping products by teens.
Read More »Laetrile bill would make drug illegal in Arizona
A veteran lawmaker says the time has finally come to tell Arizonans they can't legally use cyanide as a cancer treatment.
Read More »Bill gives drivers more options to scrub traffic tickets
Arizona motorists accused of speeding and other offenses could soon have a new way to escape their tickets -- and, more to the point, the higher insurance rates that follow.
Read More »Democratic SOS spurs talk of change in line of succession 
The election of a Democrat as Arizona’s next secretary of state has renewed some Republicans’ interest in the line of succession.
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