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Local student makes dean’s list

4/5/2024
Bennett Allen of Scottsdale, made the fall 2023 Dean’s List at the University of Puget Sound for achieving at least a 3.7 grade-point average, completing all of their enrolled courses without …

Hobbs wants to impose new restrictions on private, …

1/2/2024
PHOENIX — Unable to get the Republican-controlled Legislature to roll back a universal voucher program, Gov. Katie Hobbs now wants the lawmakers who approved the expansion to now impose some new restrictions on the private and parochial schools that accept them.

Ballet Arizona in Phoenix offers sneak peek event …

10/12/2023
Audiences ready for “Juan Gabriel” to open Ballet Arizona’s new season later this month can get a sneak peek ahead of time.

Hobbs says no one has right to keep Trump off Arizona …

9/14/2023
MESA — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs said neither she — nor any other state official — has the unilateral right to keep Donald Trump off the ballot for the state’s presidential preference primary based on the 14th Amendment.

Finchem drops bid to overturn 2022 Secretary of State …

8/1/2023
PHOENIX — Concluding there’s probably no legal path to victory, Mark Finchem is dropping his bid to overturn the 2022 race for secretary of state.

Finchem files 'Statement of interest' to run for state …

7/26/2023
PHOENIX — Rebuffed in his bid to become secretary of state, Mark Finchem now wants to go back to the Legislature. But not from the Pima County district that first elected him in 2014. Finchem on Wednesday filed a “statement of interest” to run for the state Senate for LD 1.

Republicans working to make deal with Hobbs on …

7/25/2023
PHOENIX — Republicans who hold the majority in the Arizona Legislature are working to strike a final deal with Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and leaders of cities, counties and tribes in metro Phoenix over an extension of a transportation tax that has funded massive expansions of the region’s freeway and roads system, bus routes and the light rail over nearly four decades.

Legislative committee denies Fontes' request for …

5/4/2023
PHOENIX — A Legislative committee on Thursday denied a request from Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to use $250,000 already in his office budget to pay for a private security detail to protect him and his family from “credible security threats,” a move that comes after Gov. Katie Hobbs also denied a request to assign state troopers to protect Fontes.

Appeals court upholds Biden ability to require …

4/20/2023
PHOENIX — A federal appeals court has ruled the Biden administration has the power to require the state or any Arizona company with a federal contract to vaccinate all of its workers against COVID-19.

Arizona Senate votes to remove Secretary of State from …

4/4/2023
PHOENIX — The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate voted Tuesday to require that the state’s top election official not participate in overseeing elections in which he or she is on the ballot — leaving the proposal one vote away from heading to Democratic governor and former secretary of state Katie Hobbs’ desk.

Trademarking their turf: Jack Daniel’s, Arizona …

3/23/2023
WASHINGTON – An Arizona dog-toy manufacturer told the Supreme Court Wednesday that its “Bad Spaniels” squeaky toy is a “playful parody” of Jack Daniel’s that does not infringe on the distiller’s trademarks.

State lawmakers moving to require election equipment …

3/21/2023
PHOENIX — Insisting that a “made in USA” label means more security, state lawmakers are moving to require that all election equipment be built only with domestic components and assembled in this country.