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House panel votes to make ‘lab-grown’ meats …

1/22/2024
PHOENIX — Saying they want to prevent consumer confusion, members of a House panel voted Monday to make it illegal to call anything grown in a laboratory as meat or poultry.

Arizona legislators take aim at ticket buying …

12/14/2023
PHOENIX — So you missed out on Taylor Swift tickets even though you were among the first to sign in on the website? Rep. David Cook wants to help ensure you get a fair shot the next time.

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.

Hobbs seeks law for EV drivers to pay share of road …

6/24/2023
PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs wants state lawmakers to enact new laws to ensure that the drivers of electric vehicles pay their fair share of road construction and maintenance.

Tucson democrat Stahl Hamilton censured by state House …

6/13/2023
PHOENIX — The state House voted Tuesday to censure Tucson Democrat Stephanie Stahl Hamilton for what she said was a “playful” act of moving and hiding the Bibles in the lounge used by lawmakers.

Hobbs negotiating with Republicans to craft deal to …

6/3/2023
PHOENIX — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs is directly negotiating with Republican lawmakers who control the Arizona Legislature to try to craft a deal to ask Maricopa County voters to extend a half-cent sales tax that for nearly 40 years has paid for new freeways, bus routes and light rail transportation projects.

Hobbs completes 100 days as governor with …

4/11/2023
PHOENIX — Katie Hobbs completes her first 100 days Wednesday with various controversies, criticism and the liberal use of her veto stamp.

Arizona House gives preliminary approval to cut …

4/5/2023
PHOENIX — Insisting there are plenty of jobs out there, the state House gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a measure to cut the length of time that Arizonans who are laid off can collect jobless benefits.

Arizona lawmakers debate educational spending measure

1/31/2023
PHOENIX — State lawmakers are taking the first tentative steps to ensure that public schools don’t have to shut down before the end of the academic year.

Arizona official asks for urgency in Rio Verde water …

1/25/2023
An elected member of Arizona’s House of Representatives is asking the state’s corporation commission to move swiftly in an attempt to rectify water needs in the Rio Verde Foothills …

Senate committee approves election changes

1/26/2022
PHOENIX — With complaints and suggestions that there was fraud in 2020, state lawmakers began the process Monday of making major and minor alterations in state election laws. On party line …

Arizona House downs budget, tax cut after lone GOP …

6/7/2021
PHOENIX — A lone Republican lawmaker united with House Democrats Monday to quash at least part of a proposal for sharp cuts in taxes for the most wealthy. Rep. David Cook of Globe said he is …