Supreme Court lets challenges to federal agencies go forward
The Supreme Court is allowing challenges to the structure of two federal agencies to go forward in federal court.
High court to hear arguments over Biden’s deportation policy
The Supreme Court is taking up a dispute over a blocked Biden administration policy that would prioritize deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.
Brewer travels with all-star crowd to Super Bowl
Gov. Jan Brewer traveled in style to Super Bowl XLVII over the weekend with an all-star cast that included a prominent Arizona entrepreneur and philanthropist, an All-Pro football star and an Academy Award nominee.
ALEC’s influence looms large at Capitol
The American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative organization whose corporate largesse and influence over policy have become a flashpoint for liberal criticism, has a deep reach into the Arizona Legislature.
When the group kicked off its 2011 summer conference in New Orleans on Aug. 3, 29 of Arizona’s 61 Republican lawmakers were in attendance.
Birdman lands in Bisbee
In November 1911, R.L. “Birdman” Fowler made a stop at the Bisbee Country Club on a cross-country air trip and became the first man to fly into the copper mining camp (Didier Masson whose plane appears in this photo was the first to fly out of Bisbee in February 1911, but his biplane was shipped into Bisbee by railroad.)
Phoenix mining company invests in Gulf of Mexico oil drilling
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. is investing $500 million in a Louisiana company set to ramp up oil production in the Gulf of Mexico in the next few years.