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Recent news Jan 9, 2024, 2:55AM MST

Are unstaffed ballot drop boxes allowed in Arizona? Final rulebook offers little clarity

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Arizona voters have long relied on unstaffed ballot drop boxes to conveniently cast their ballots, but challenges to their use persist and a new state rulebook does little to clarify their legal [...]

Jan 6, 2024, 8:20PM MST

New Mexico attorney general says fake GOP electors can't be prosecuted, recommends changes

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's top prosecutor said Friday that the state's five Republican electors cannot be prosecuted under the current law for filing election certificates that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential race. However, Democratic Attorney General Raúl Torrez is making recommendati[...]

Top Stories Jan 6, 2024, 11:41AM MST

Water, housing, abortion, teacher pay could be top issues for lawmakers

It's taken four decades, Saudi cows munching on alfalfa grown with Arizona water and national headlines about whether Arizona is finally drying up. But state lawmakers appear to finally be ready to update the 1980 Groundwater Act to plug the holes it left, even as Gov. Katie Hobbs considers a recommendation from her Water Policy Cou[...]

Dec 6, 2023, 12:49PM MST

Court finds Trump challenger not serious candidate

A federal judge has tossed a bid by a would-be Republican contender for president to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in Arizona, saying the challenger's presidential campaign is not really serious.  In a ruling late Dec. 5, Judge Douglas Rayes acknowledged that John Castro has in fact qualified to have his name on the ballot for[...]

Oct 3, 2023, 8:00AM MST

Maricopa County Sheriff Penzone says he's stepping down a year early in January

Penzone is credited with ending some of the polices of his predecessor Joe Arpaio, which have been widely criticized as anti-immigrant and racist. PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone announced Monday that he is resigning in January, a full year before his term ends. Penzone said at a news conference that he d[...]

Commentary Aug 17, 2023, 4:00PM MST

Presidential shenanigans nothing new to nation

The Republicans and the Democrats are stuck for 2024. It seems inevitable that Donald Trump will have a rematch with Joe Biden. While the current polling does not bode well for Trump, in 2016, he was always shown to be comfortably behind HRHC (Her Royal Highness Hillary Clinton). Both sides see the opposing candidate a[...]

Recent news Jul 27, 2023, 10:33AM MST

Survey: Young Arizona voters more engaged, informed than earlier generations

Arizona’s young voters, ages 18 to 29, may have been the state’s most engaged youth electorate group ever, driven in 2022 by concerns about cost of living and reproductive rights. That was the finding of a study by the McCain Institute, which found that Generation Z and younger millennial voters surpassed expectations and prev[...]

young voters, Arizona, issues, Arizona State University, Diane Brown
Jul 14, 2023, 12:56AM MST

Best Activist

Anna Hernandez [caption id="attachment_480450" align="alignright" width="200"] Anna Hernandez[/caption] Sen. Anna Hernandez is a fierce advocate for residents in her West Valley district and throughout Arizona, fighting for reforms to address public education, the housing crisis, and police accountability. The latter is a parti[...]

Best of the Capitol Jul 14, 2023, 12:02AM MST

Toughest Bill/Hardest Sell

HB2457 Anesthesiologist assistants; licensure The tragic death of two patients in 2021 due to administering anesthetics brought attention to the issue of who is qualified to dish out such powerful medicines. While those cases involved a nurse anesthetist rather than an anesthesiologist assistant, they made it clear that failure in[...]

Jul 13, 2023, 11:35AM MST

US House majority in play next year after weak GOP midterm showing, court ruling

Republican Rep. David Schweikert used to win his wealthy, suburban Phoenix congressional district by nearly 30 points. Then Donald Trump was elected president, and his victories started shrinking. Schweikert, who won his last election by just 3,200 votes, is now among the top 2024 targets for Democrats, who sense better-than-expecte[...]

Top Stories Jun 12, 2023, 6:08PM MST

Voters to decide on measure that changes citizen initiative process

Legislative Republicans are asking voters to make it harder to put voter initiatives on the ballot. Ballot initiatives and referendums have long been a practice for Arizona voters to change the Constitution while bypassing the state Legislature. What is needed to put an item on the ballot is to get 10% of signatures from people wh[...]

citizen's initiative, ballot, House, Livingston, De Los Santos, Salman
Apr 7, 2023, 10:14AM MST

‘Any scenario you want to imagine, they could do;’ Harris ethics probe undecided

[caption id="attachment_261647" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Liz Harris speaks with attendees at a rally hosted by EZAZ at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix in January 2022. The ethics investigation into Republican Harris of Chandler, who is now a state representative, is still up in the air as s[...]

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