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Arizona education executive to join Virginia community college system

[caption id="attachment_68474" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An experienced higher education executive from Arizona has been selected to lead Virginia's system of 23 community colleges after a lengthy search. (File Photo)[/caption] RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An experienced higher education executive from Arizona has been tapped to [...]

Virginia, Arizona, State Board for Community Colleges, Virginia Community College System, Pima Community College, Michigan, Tucson, Pepperdine University
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Attorney points to Richer’s fundraising as proof Lake did no harm

Kari Lake is advancing a new legal theory why she doesn't owe anything to Stephen Richer for the defamatory statements she made about his handling of elections: His 2024 bid for a new term as Maricopa County recorder is doing just fine financially despite all that. Attorney Tim La Sota, who is representing her in the defamation case[...]

Lake, Hobbs, gubernatorial, debate, Ask Me Anything, Hobbs, Chandler

Study committee underscores solutions for rental crisis

[caption id="attachment_96907" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Housing in Arizona ranks among the most important issues facing the state, as evidenced by the strong turnout for the bipartisan legislative Housing Supply Study Committee, which meets every two weeks to explore solutions to rising Arizona housing prices and the lack of [...]

Morning Scoop: Civic Engagement and Elections

Civic Engagement and Elections Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021 • Discussion: 8-9 AM [button color="gray" size="medium" link="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W419hVxnTdOJhV1blbnKDA"]REGISTER NOW[/button] Confidence in the electoral system is crucial to America's grand experiment in representative democrac[...]

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Eviction filings in Arizona's fast-growing Maricopa County surge amid housing supply crisis

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona's most populous county and one of America's fastest-growing regions saw more eviction filings in October than in any month since the beginning of this century, court officials said Thursday. Landlords filed 7,948 eviction complaints last month with the justice courts in Maricopa County, court spokesperson [...]

evictions, Maricopa County

$50M claim filed over fatal eviction shooting in Tucson

[caption id="attachment_102037" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Family members of an Arizona property manager who was shot to death during an attempted eviction in Tucson last year have filed a $50 million claim against Pima County and others. (File Photo)[/caption] TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The family of an Arizona property manager[...]

lawsuit, Pima County, apartment, fatal shooting

State won’t carry out execution after warrant issued 

[caption id="attachment_254275" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Arizona is not going to execute the state’s only inmate on death row even after the Arizona Supreme Court issued a death warrant in the case, Gov. Katie Hobbs said on Friday.[/caption] Arizona won’t execute the state’s only inmate on death row even after the Ar[...]

State continues pursuit of Dixon execution

[caption id="attachment_253515" align="alignnone" width="620"] Clarence Dixon, 2022.[/caption] Prosecutors on Thursday asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue an execution warrant for a convicted killer that if carried out would be the state's first use of the death penalty in seven years.  Attorney General Mark Brnovich's of[...]

legislature

New ‘No Labels’ party qualifies to run candidates in 2024 

[caption id="attachment_260865" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A new political party is set to field candidates in Arizona in next year’s elections and its name says something about its view of traditional party politics: the newcomer is called the No Labels Party. No Labels is a national organization that’s tried to encourage [...]

No Labels, political party, Democrats, Republicans, Fontes, Arizona Democratic Party

Planned Parenthood to spend record $50M in midterm elections – including Arizona

[caption id="attachment_129449" align="aligncenter" width="620"]  (Deposit Photo)[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) — Planned Parenthood, the nation's leading reproductive health care provider and abortion rights advocacy organization, plans to spend a record $50 million ahead of November's midterm elections, pouring money into contest[...]

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Former Arizona Corrections director pleads no contest in armed standoff with officers at his home

PHOENIX (AP) — Former Arizona Corrections Director Charles Ryan pleaded no contest Tuesday to disorderly conduct stemming from an encounter in which police say he fired a gun inside his Tempe home in early 2022 and pointed a firearm at two officers during a three-hour standoff. The maximum sentence Ryan, who retired as correctio[...]

former Corrections director, no contest, disorderly conduct
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Arizona’s death penalty is cruel and unusual; it's time to abolish it

[caption id="attachment_96452" align="aligncenter" width="621"] Last month, following a series of botched killings, Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes took much-needed action, ordering a review of Arizona’s use of the death penalty and halting all pending executions. Now, we must make these changes permanent. (File Ph[...]

death row, Mayes, Hobbs, Conover, lethal injection, Mitchell, equal treatment, prison, death row, Gunches

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