The state’s largest county has a plan to keep tabulating ballots if the Elections Department gets hit with an outbreak of COVID-19 before the November 3 election.
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Walkout teachers now in a drive to win US statehouse posts
Kathy Hoffman and the other teacher candidates represent a wild-card political movement following the teacher-driven #RedForEd effort that drew support from parents and school children in Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia
Read More »Why they walked
Arizona teachers went on strike for a shorter period of time, and will end up with higher wages than teachers who walked out before them.
Read More »Rand Paul touts individual liberty, jabs McCain during ASU speech
Presidential hopeful Rand Paul came to Arizona Friday to drum up supports, preach individual liberty – and continue his war of words with the state’s senior senator by taking a few more verbal whacks at him.
Read More »Veteran Senate secretary retires to the hills of Kentucky 
Few people can claim they know the legislative process as intimately as Charmion Billington, the longtime secretary of the Arizona Senate.
Read More »Court conflicts lead to uncertainty for gays wishing to marry
Gay couples who want to wed in Arizona might want to do it soon. That’s because the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 6 upheld laws banning same-sex marriage in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Read More »Growing movement targets federal gun laws with state-level nullification
Across the country, a thriving dissatisfaction with the U.S. government is prompting a growing spate of bills in state legislatures aimed at defying federal control over firearms - more than 200 during the last decade, a News21 investigation found.
Read More »Holder urges AZ to restore voting rights to ex-inmates
Attorney General Eric Holder called on a group of states Tuesday to restore voting rights to ex-felons, part of a push to fix what he sees as flaws in the criminal justice system that have a disparate impact on racial minorities.
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