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House panel to examine Hobbs' social media conduct as Secretary of State 

A legislative panel is meeting next month to investigate the social media conduct of executive officials including Gov. Katie Hobbs before she was elected as governor.   Speaker of the House Ben Toma, R-Peoria, announced the creation of a new Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight, Accountability, and Big Tech Thursday afternoon. The comm[...]

social media, Hobbs, investigation, Twitter, Facebook
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County tailors ballot project to politically connected firm 

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.   As an Arizona county prepares to spend up to $1 million in state money to test anti-counterfeit features on ballots, it appears the project was tailored for one company in particular that [...]

ballots, Cochise County, Stevens, elections

Former lawmaker Shawnna Bolick will join Senate

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Wednesday to appoint former lawmaker Shawnna Bolick to replace former Sen. Steve Kaiser in the Senate. The board voiced some concerns with Bolick but said she’s the only candidate the precinct committeemen in Legislative District 2 sent up who can “hit the ground ru[...]

Kaiser, Bolick, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Senate
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Money expected to be deciding factor in LD7 GOP primary

Hard work versus money.   In a political campaign, consultants and pollsters will put their money on money.   They predict that in a primary contest between Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, and Rep. David Cook, R-Globe, her larger campaign stash will ensure she keeps the Legislative District 7 seat in the Senate.   On July[...]

Judge dismisses groups’ challenge to Prop. 211

A Superior Court judge dismissed the legal challenge to the Voters’ Right to Know Act, or Proposition 211, on June 22, and deemed the ballot measure requiring further donor disclosures for campaign media spending to be constitutional on both the state and federal level. The Center for Arizona Policy and the Arizona Free Enterpri[...]

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Changes to tax forms – you can keep more money

[caption id="attachment_260895" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Arizona employees will be able to keep more money in their paychecks as Arizona's individual tax rate has been lowered to a flat 2.5%, and withholding forms are changing, as well. (Photo by Pexels)[/caption] Arizona employees are getting to keep a bit more in their p[...]

tax form, individual taxes, A-4 form, Arizona Department of Revenue, paychecks
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Hobbs cancels $210M contracts signed by Ducey

[caption id="attachment_260343" align="aligncenter" width="620"] In this file photo, Katie Hobbs, who at the time was governor-elect and Arizona secretary of state, watches as Republican then-Gov. Doug Ducey, looks over documents to sign for the official certification for the Arizona general election canvass in a ceremony at the Ariz[...]

Ducey, Hobbs, contracts
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GOP-supported measure would ask voters to remove more of their law-writing authority

[caption id="attachment_257918" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Voters wait in line outside a polling station on Nov. 8, 2022 in Tempe. Republican lawmakers on Feb. 14 advanced a measure that would ask voters to take away even more of their own power to write their own laws after persuading them last year to significantly limit thei[...]

voters, elections, voters initiatives, Mesnard, Sundareshan, Epstein, Senate, bill

Sinema's split from Democrats shows party discord in Arizona

[caption id="attachment_260104" align="aligncenter" width="620"] U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing Sept. 14, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sinema won Democrats a Senate seat from Arizona for the first time in a generation thanks in no small pa[...]

Sinema, Democrats, Senate, division, Republicans, Trump, Biden, Hobbs
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State GOP makes another effort to kill on-demand early voting

[caption id="attachment_258238" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Ballots from the general election are boxed up at the Maricopa County Recorder's Office in Phoenix on Nov. 14, 2022. Now the Arizona Republican Party is making a last-ditch effort to get a court to do what lawmakers have so far refused: Kill on-demand early voting in th[...]

Maricopa County, Mohave County, Cochise County, ballots, Crosby, Judd, delays, general election, election deniers, conspiracy theorists, Ward, Arizona Republican Party, Arizona Democratic Party, ballots, early ballots, early voting, lawsuit, Court of Appeals, GOP, Arizona Republican Party, Supreme Court, early voting

Committee moves bill to scrap sales tax on food

[caption id="attachment_259649" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A shopper chooses food products from the grocery store in this illustration. The House Ways and Means committee approved a bill proposing to scrap sales tax on food in Arizona. (Deposit Photos)[/caption] A bill that would cut municipal taxes on food got initial appro[...]

Fry's, merger, grocery stores, Smith's, Kroger, Fry's Food,
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Buu Nygren sworn in as next Navajo Nation president

[caption id="attachment_259461" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Buu Nygren announces his win for the Navajo Nation president as he reads tabulated votes from chapter houses across the reservation at his campaign's watch party at the Navajo Nation fairgrounds in Window Rock, Ariz., on Nov. 8, 2022. Nygren was sworn in Tuesday as the [...]

Navajo Nation, president, water, tribal rights, Biden Administrationtribal, Indigenous, Buu Nygren, Jonathan Nez, general election, Washington, D.C., Diné, Navajos, New Mexico, Arizona, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Vietnamese, oil, gas, pandemic, generational trauma

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