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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 vetoes pronoun gender bill

5/22/2023
PHOENIX — Arizona won’t bar teachers from referring to students by their preferred pronoun or name.

Senate president Petersen heaps praise on Hobbs during …

5/21/2023
PHOENIX — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs took major heat from many Democrats for negotiating a state budget package with Republican legislative leaders that did not include any changes to the state’s new universal school voucher program.

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.

Judge to hear arguments on harassment order against …

4/27/2023
PHOENIX — A judge will hear arguments on May 10 whether to dissolve a court order that keeps an Arizona Capitol Times reporter away from the three homes of Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers.

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.

Senate panel recommends Hobbs' choice for ADOT head

2/20/2023
PHOENIX — A Senate panel agreed Monday to recommend confirmation of Katie Hobbs’ pick to head the Department of Transportation — but not before the chairman grilled her on her personal beliefs and at one point suggested she was not being truthful.

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.

Republicans carry Legislative District 14 

11/21/2022
Arizona’s Legislative District 14 will be in Republican hands for the next two years.  After the final ballot count was released Monday, incumbent Travis Grantham retained his House of …

LD-14 candidates give their views on state's issues

9/22/2022
The newly created Arizona Legislative District 14 covers most of Gilbert but also includes some of Chandler and a small piece of Queen Creek.  In the Senate, incumbent Republican Warren …

Tourism sales bill shelved

4/6/2022
PHOENIX — A measure to let the Arizona Office of Tourism sell goods and services to raise money is drawing opposition from some Republican lawmakers who see it as “a scandal in the …