Striking the right balance is hard. But there should be a strong presumption in favor of leaving politics – and its inherent passions and prejudices – at the courthouse door. Criminalizing politics doesn't just poison our government and undermine our justice system. It imperils our nation as a whole.

As for those who have money to spare, contributing to local candidates in heated races would prove to be the most impactful way to reach their desired outcome in an election. So as the 2020 general election nears, make sure to spend your money and vote wisely to have your values represented in Arizona politics.

The results from ignoring scientific warnings is a metastasizing virus. When will ignorance give way to the educated? Cut out the politics and make the health and safety of your family, friends, and neighbors your number one priority.

As Hugo Polanco sees it, all of Arizona’s lobbying firms are either bipartisan, nonpartisan, or conservative. Well, all but one: Creosote Partners, a progressive lobbying firm where Polanco became the newest addition in July.

In Phoenix, as people go about their business and make conversation, climate isn’t likely the top water cooler topic, much less that we are facing an existential climate crisis of our own making: drastically altered climates, extreme heat and weather, relentless and extreme loss of biodiversity, vanishing forests and catastrophic wildfire threats. And that’s just here in Arizona.

Affordable housing advocates scored a win this legislative session after lawmakers voted to reverse a decade-long trend of capping the state Housing Trust Fund’s budget.

The 2019 legislative session is finally behind us. Or is it?

The Legislative Governmental Mall Commission was given a name bureaucracies dream of and a death Sen. Lela Alston described as “snakey” even by political standards.

How exactly do you work with someone you believe has betrayed you? That’s a question some lawmakers are asking themselves about the state’s county prosecutors after what some saw as an 11th hour reversal on criminal justice reform measures.

Sine die watch is finally over after the Senate approved an $11.8 billion budget on Memorial Day