We don’t need rescuers and saviors to address homelessness and the housing crisis. We need courageous leaders who will listen to those with lived experience and people on the front lines. We need to implement evidence-based best practices and proven solutions.
Read More »Take care when sweeping property of unsheltered
These people living in the streets are our neighbors, and we have a duty to treat them like neighbors. Trash and waste can be thrown away. Things that are broken can be replaced. But human lives that are lost on the streets of our city cannot be brought back.
Read More »MLK III comes to Phoenix, slams Sinema over filibuster
Martin Luther King III came to Arizona with harsh words for Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, whose refusal to change the Senate’s Jim Crow-era filibuster rules makes voting rights legislation unlikely to pass. King told a crowd campaigning to protect voting ...
Read More »Tax issue: Is shooting range amusement? 
A day at the shooting range may provide amusement, but, for tax purposes, one range is hoping the state’s high court also sees it as a place to “learn how to shoot, practice necessary professional skills, and improve self-defense training.”
Read More »Ducey won’t challenge local mask ordinances
Gov. Doug Ducey is not taking any action to curb the decisions of some cities and counties to ignore his directive that they scrap their mask mandates.
Read More »Cities defend progress after slipping in clean energy ranking
Local officials pushed back earlier this month against a new report that showed three Arizona cities slipping in a national ranking on clean-energy policies, saying the report does not appear to reflect their clean and renewable-energy efforts.
Read More »Barto holds slim lead in LD15 showdown
A battle over the ideological heart of the Republican Party remains too close to call in Legislative District 15, where challenging Rep. Nancy Barto holds a narrow lead over incumbent Sen. Heather Carter.
Read More »Ducey places Arizona under statewide emergency following protests 
Gov. Doug Ducey today declared a sweeping statewide emergency and imposed an 8 p.m. curfew that will last at least one week.
Read More »Mayors at odds with Ducey’s list of essential services
A new executive order by Gov. Doug Ducey on "essential services'' appears less designed to empower him to force people to stay home than to preclude Arizona cities from once again getting out in front of him on actions to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Read More »Ducey’s proposed infrastructure upgrades road to bipartisanship
Spending part of a one-time windfall to build new roads and bridges was a rare idea in Gov. Doug Ducey’s January 13 State of the State Address that won plaudits from both liberal and conservative lawmakers.
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