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Lawmaker: Budget hearing to air transplant cuts
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.
Pearce to skip national birthright bill unveiling in D.C.
The unveiling of what may become the most controversial immigration legislation of this era will have to go on without one of its primary architects.
Company seeking copper mine forges pacts with town, stakeholder groups
In the “mutual benefits agreement” signed in 2008 and renewed recently, Superior pledged its support for federal legislation that would make a huge copper mine possible by exchanging protected land in the Tonto National Forest for parcels of comparable value elsewhere in the state. Any official communication opposing the plan to the governor or a member of Arizona’s congressional delegation [...]
Navajo Nation seeks court order to evict longtime ranchers
Loretta and Raymond Morris have ranched the same 5,500 acres in northwestern New Mexico for more than 40 years, but their time there might be cut shorter than they hoped.
2010’s wildest statements, other gaffes and a pregnant pause
At the end of the year, it’s easy to look back and recognize the high points and low points. But often the most memorable moments are neither high nor low — they’re just ridiculous.
Immigration, gays in the military, abortion — these are all weighty topics. But in the hands of politicians, these subjects get pretty wild and, in some cases, twisted.
Top AZ movers and shakers of 2010
2010 was Gov. Jan Brewer's year, but here's a list of the five other most significant people in Arizona politics this year.
Arizona cities aim to protect state-shared revenue
A top priority of cities and towns during the upcoming session of the Arizona Legislature is protecting the tax revenue distributed back to them from the state.
In Congress, a harder line on illegal immigrants
The end of the year means a turnover of House control from Democratic to Republican and, with it, Congress' approach to immigration.
Tucson lands federal grant for streetcar project
Tucson officials say the city has secured a $63 million federal grant for its modern streetcar project.
Redistricting likely to renew Navajo, Hopi divide
The Hopi reservation sticks out like a sore thumb on the state's congressional map. Instead of being in the same district as the larger Navajo Nation, which surrounds it, the Hopi land is connected by the Colorado River to residents in the far western side of the state.
Bills filed for 2011
The guns-on-campus bill is back. And John Kavanagh has a new plan to stop an education association from using taxpayer money to influence elections.
Both proposals were among the 20 bills that lawmakers had filed as of Dec. 22 in anticipation of the upcoming legislative session, which will kick off Jan. 10.
Arizona gains 9th congressional seat, but massive growth isn’t enough for a tenth
The U.S. Census Bureau confirmed what local politicos had long expected, that Arizona will gain a ninth congressional seat.
But states with far less growth grabbed new seats that Arizona hoped would be its tenth.
