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Arizona to sell shipping containers used as border …

6/29/2023
PHOENIX — So did you ever want your very own shipping container? You will soon get the chance, courtesy of a now abandoned vision by former Gov. Doug Ducey to build a wall out of them along the state’s southern border.

Former Gov. Ducey new chief executive of Citizens for …

6/20/2023
PHOENIX — Saying he wants to fight a “push toward socialism,” Doug Ducey has signed on as the new chief executive of Citizens for Free Enterprise.

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.

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.

I-11 project clears key legal challenge

5/25/2023
PHOENIX — A challenge to plans to build the 280-mile Interstate 11 project from Nogales to Wickenburg has survived a key legal challenge.

House lawmakers go on break until June 12

5/16/2023
PHOENIX — Their work isn’t done. But state lawmakers are on break — again — this time until June 12.

Hobbs says state is victim of fraud within AHCCCS

5/16/2023
PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes said Tuesday the state has been the victim of massive fraud in its health care program and blamed their Republican predecessors for ignoring it.

Hobbs gets some concessions in budget talks

5/8/2023
PHOENIX — The $17.8 billion budget deal Gov. Katie Hobbs negotiated with Republican lawmakers does include some things the governor wanted. And it even includes a tax cut, albeit a temporary one.

Hobbs gives up demand to curb ESA program in budget

5/8/2023
PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs has given up on her demand to curb a program that allows any parent already sending their child to private or parochial schools to now get the bill picked up by taxpayers.

Hobbs' plan to deal with immigration has ideas, but …

5/8/2023
PHOENIX — A five-point plan by Gov. Katie Hobbs to deal with what happens Friday when Border Patrol loses its ability to immediately deport those who enter this country to seek asylum includes lots of ideas but is short on specifics.

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.

Arizona state senators approve funding for Medicaid

5/3/2023
PHOENIX — State lawmakers on Wednesday finally approved the funding that the state’s Medicaid program needs to pay its current bills.