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Chandler mayor pleased with outcome of transportation …

8/9/2023
While a compromise on Maricopa County’s transportation funding announced earlier this month doesn’t give all interested parties everything they wanted, the Chandler mayor and another key …

Arizona Supreme Court allows some payment for petition …

6/22/2023
PHOENIX — A 2017 law making it a crime to pay petition circulators on a per-signature basis is legal, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

Senate bill to make automatic individual income tax …

6/12/2023
PHOENIX — The state House refused Monday to requiring that individual income tax rates be cut automatic any time the state runs a surplus.

House votes to add 2024 ballot measure for altering …

6/12/2023
PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers are moving to convince voters to hobble their ability to write their own laws. On a voice vote Monday, the House voted to put a measure on the 2024 ballot to alter existing constitutional provisions that can force a public vote any time backers get the signatures of 10% of the people who voted in the last gubernatorial election.

Hobbs vetoes four measures, brings total to 29

4/5/2023
PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs refused Wednesday to limit those digital signs above and adjacent to state roads to only traffic safety messages. The governor also vetoed three other measures on Wednesday, bringing her total this session to 29.

Chandler senator proposes move to kill forms of …

3/17/2023
PHOENIX — The way Sen. J.D. Mesnard sees it, when the people who crafted the Arizona Constitution put in a $350,000 debt limit they weren’t kidding.

Hobbs vetoes bill seeking to ban 'critical race …

3/9/2023
PHOENIX — Arizona won’t be banning what has been called “critical race theory” in public schools.

Arizona Senate votes to withhold personal information …

3/1/2023
PHOENIX — Every single member of the Arizona Senate voted Tuesday for a measure that will shield their addresses and other personal information from the public as elected officials are increasingly subjected to threats and protests at their homes.

Federal court rejects former Arizona …

7/23/2021
PHOENIX — A federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out the claims of former state Rep. Don Shooter that his rights were violated when he was expelled in 2018 from the House of Representatives.

Arizona Supreme Court sets limits on legislative …

6/30/2021
PHOENIX — State lawmakers have absolute immunity from being sued by those who are the targets of legislative investigative reports, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a unanimous …

Senators defend two Arizona voting bills

4/19/2021
PHOENIX — Two Republican senators lashed out Monday at businesses and the media, accusing them of mischaracterizing what is in changes they are proposing to state election laws. Michelle …

Money on the minds of Arizona lawmakers for 2020 …

1/10/2020
PHOENIX — State lawmakers return to the Capitol Monday to deal with something they appear to have plenty: Money and who gets it. State tax collections have been running ahead of projections …