State House Appropriations Chairman John Kavanagh says a promised review of a controversial cut of medical transplant funding will be part of a budget hearing for the state's Medicaid program.
Read More »How’s this for diversity?
Commissioner Doug Cole said he supports the idea to send the Legislature two more candidates to add to the Republican pool, but declined to add details on exactly how he would like that to occur.
Read More »Kavanagh bill targets ASBA’s district fees, politicking 
Rep. John Kavanagh, who backed this year's ballot measure to sweep hundreds of millions of dollars from a childhood development agency, has a message for an education group that opposed the effort: You don’t kick a hornet’s nest without risking a sting.
Read More »Glassman spent nearly $460,000 in 2-month period
Democrat Rodney Glassman spent nearly $460,000 during a two-month period ending on Sept. 30 in his bid to unseat U.S. Sen. John McCain.
Read More »State lawmakers preparing citizenship legislation
Lawmakers in states across the country are combining to work on proposed legislation to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in this country to parents who are illegal immigrants, the sponsor of Arizona's 2010 law targeting illegal immigration said Tuesday.
Read More »Glassman posts unorthodox video
Underdog Democrat Rodney Glassman posted a four-minute Web video Monday in which he sings his criticism of Republican incumbent John McCain in a takeoff of the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic "Sweet Home Alabama."
Read More »Brewer mum on referendum advice
Gov. Jan Brewer won't say whether voters should support a ballot measure she and the Republican-led Legislature used to fill a gap in the state budget she signed this year by taking cash from an early childhood program.
Read More »Poll: McCain holds strong lead over challenger
A new poll shows that Republican John McCain holds a strong lead over Democrat Rodney Glassman in Arizona's U.S. Senate race.
Read More »Poll finds majority of Arizona voters favor key provisions of immigration law
Arizona voters overwhelmingly favor even the most controversial provisions within SB 1070, according to a poll released Wednesday Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy.
Read More »UpClose with Bill Montgomery 
Bill Montgomery is taking his second stab at elective office, and for the second time he’s going up against an Arizona political fixture. In 2006, he lost the attorney general’s race to Terry Goddard. This time he is running for Maricopa County attorney against Rick Romley, who held the office for 16 years and has continued to work behind the scenes in Arizona politics since he left office in 2004. Earlier this year, Romley was appointed to serve as interim Maricopa County attorney.
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