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Committee votes Monday on bill for hand-counting …

3/20/2022
PHOENIX — A Republican lawmaker is finally going to get a chance to try to sell colleagues on his idea of killing early voting and requiring all ballots to be hand counted. Sen. Kelly …

Lawmakers address $1.1B school funding deadline

2/15/2022
PHOENIX — Top legislative leaders took the first steps Monday to ensure that Arizona public schools don’t have to slash more than $1.1 billion from their budgets in just two …

Townsend, state senator, to run for Congress

1/17/2022
PHOENIX — An Apache Junction lawmaker who continues to question the outcome of the 2020 presidential race now wants to represent southeast Arizona in Congress. “Anybody who knows me …

Mesa lawmaker withdraws complaint over Pima mask rule

1/6/2022
PHOENIX — Pima County is out of danger of having its state funds slashed because of its policies requiring most of its employees to be vaccinated — at least for the time being. Sen. …

Mesa lawmaker: ‘Off-label’ drugs should be …

12/7/2021
PHOENIX — The way Kelly Townsend sees it, if a doctor is willing to write you a prescription for ivermectin or any other drug, a pharmacist has no right to refuse to fill it — even if …

COVID issues loom in Legislature

1/26/2021
Arizona legislators have their work cut out for them as they enter their third week of a legislative session that comes on the heels of a tumultuous election cycle and in the midst of a worsening …

Townsend believes election is ‘tainted’

1/6/2021
PHOENIX — A Trump supporter in the state legislature has crafted legislation designed to give the president the state’s 11 electoral votes even as some GOP lawmakers in Washington work to keep Congress from certifying the election Wednesday for Joe Biden.