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Hobbs vetoes four bills targeting 'drag' shows, …

6/16/2023
PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed four bills Thursday designed to target “drag” shows and performers.

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.

Republican senators vote to outlaw diversity, equity …

3/21/2023
PHOENIX — Saying he was doing what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted, a Queen Creek senator got Republican colleagues to vote to outlaw diversity, equity and inclusion programs in state and local governments and the university system.

Republican senators approve measures to outlaw 'drag …

3/16/2023
PHOENIX — Over the objections of Democrats, all 16 Republican state senators approved two measures Thursday that proponents say are designed to outlaw “drag shows” that can be seen by children — even as neither measure actually uses those words.

Arizona lawmakers looking to strip 19 cities of 'home …

2/24/2023
PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers are moving to strip 19 cities of their right to home rule simply to help get Republicans elected to the Tucson city council.

Arizona Senate bill defines how to teach anti-Semitism

6/29/2021
PHOENIX — Teaching anti-Semitism in Arizona public schools will include any claim that the state of Israel has no right to exist, according to legislation approved Tuesday by the state …