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Rural Arizona city to store dead bodies in flower shop cooler in emergency
If something goes terribly wrong in southeastern Arizona, Cochise County has a way to temporarily store dead bodies.
House panel OKs bills on newspaper public notices
A divided Arizona House committee on Thursday gave initial approval to a pair of bills that change the way public notices are required to be published, pushing the bills forward despite strong opposition from the newspaper industry.
McGuire introduces bill to go after felons for trying to purchase guns
It’s already illegal for felons to own a weapon. Now a bipartisan group of legislators want to make it illegal for them to even attempt to own one.
Agreement reached in ballot dispute in Barber-McSally race
An agreement reached Tuesday at least temporarily resolves a dispute over 130 provisional ballots that could prove decisive in Arizona's last undecided congressional race.
Capitol Quotes: Feb. 17, 2012
This week's most outstanding quips, jibes and utterances.
F-16s intercept plane flown by ex-Arizona lawmaker
Authorities say a small plane owned by a former state lawmaker was intercepted by F-16 fighters for flying without a flight plan near the Arizona-Mexico border.
Some Sierra Vista residents oppose pot shops
Some Sierra Vista residents are not too high on a proposed medical marijuana facility.
Gowan: Make U.S. prove its mandates are constitutional
The federal government, state Rep. David Gowan says, is not showing Arizona the proper respect. So Gowan, a Republican from Sierra Vista, is pushing a bill demanding that when the federal government requires Arizona to create a program, the mandate comes with “arguments” that it “will pass a constitutional challenge if contested in a court of law.”
Vacancy-filling proposal would chuck county supervisors
Filling legislative vacancies, which now ends up in the hands of boards of county supervisors, would become totally the responsibility of political party operatives if a bill proposed by Rep. David Gowan, R-Sierra Vista, becomes law.
Few show in Sierra Vista for medical pot vote
Few Sierra Vista residents have anything to say about the establishment of voter-approved medical marijuana dispensaries in southern Arizona.
