All those folks fleeing elsewhere puts Arizona on track for picking up a 10th seat in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in 2022.
Read More »House set to begin votes on bills Tuesday 
The Arizona House of Representatives is set to hear potentially dozens of bills this week -- including a measure to shield businesses from legal liability if a patron or employee gets COVID-19 -- even as the Senate sits recessed, poised to finalize last week’s adjournment motion and end the session.
Read More »The Breakdown: In other news
Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk has been targeting medical marijuana patients using extracts – until recently anyway. We’ll actually have that story for you this week.
Read More »The Breakdown, Episode 18: The Red (for Ed) wave?
Red for Ed may be over, but it's too soon to tell what consequences - and possibly new elected officials - it will bring to the Capitol over time.
Read More »Democratic blitz, GOP votes doomed redistricting measure 
The threat of a massive infusion of political spending by a liberal advocacy group during campaign season helped thwart a legislative effort to overhaul Arizona’s redistricting process.
Read More »Redistricting commission likely to need additional funds 
The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission is likely to need some extra funds after the Legislature declined to let it to use leftover money it says it needs to fight the final legal challenge to the maps it approved in 2012.
Read More »US Supreme Court upholds AZ legislative map
Arizona's 30 legislative districts were legally drawn and can continue to be used through the end of the decade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this morning.
Read More »Scalia’s death could doom Republican redistricting case
The death Saturday of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia could undermine efforts by Arizona Republicans to undo the state's 30 legislative districts.
Read More »Year in Review: Big year for Redistricting Commission at U.S. Supreme Court 
The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission became a quasi-regular fixture at the U.S. Supreme Court this year as remapping panel defended the work it did and even its right to do it.
Read More »Hispanic congressmen say Texas lawsuit would disenfranchise many
A separate redistricting case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 8 has Hispanic congressmen worried it could lead to giving the majority Anglo population a new tool to maintain political control despite changing demographics.
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