Elections
Arizona's GOP Primary Is a Test of Addition, Not Just Volume
The Biggs-Schweikert primary is really an argument about whether Arizona Republicans can turn intensity into a statewide majority.
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Courts
Lockdown limbo claims on Arizona’s women’s death row need logs, not adjectives
Arizona Mirror says all three women on Arizona’s death row faced a “lockdown limbo” this month. With a cohort of three, prison officials can and should publish the dates, reasons, services affected, and durations. Show the log and the ratios, not just the rhetoric.
Courts
Homeland Security agents illegally recorded and retaliated against immigration protesters: lawsuit
Three people who observed federal immigration enforcement during the Trump administration’s sometimes-violent surge said in a federal lawsuit filed Friday the Department of Homeland Security illegally recorded them and revoked their status in the department’s trusted traveler programs. The suit, filed in the...
Capitol
‘We are in hell’: The lockdown limbo Arizona’s 3 women on death row faced this month
There are three women on Arizona’s death row, and they got there the usual way. Wendi Andriano beat her terminally ill husband to death. Shawna Forde formed an anti-immigrant militia, then staged a home invasion that left a man and his nine-year-old daughter dead. Sammantha Uriarte and her husband, John Allen,...
Capitol
New federal housing law brings carrots and sticks to city halls. The details will decide Arizona’s fate.
A newly enacted federal housing law promises carrots and sticks for city halls. The details that will decide Arizona’s budgets and building timelines are still to come.
Opinion
USDA unions push back on D.C. relocation. Arizona taxpayers should demand the numbers.
USDA unions are fighting a plan to move 2,500 employees from D.C. to five regional offices. Arizona taxpayers should insist on the math: clear costs, measurable benefits, and guardrails against budget theater.
Border
Landmark new federal housing law rewards cities that build and penalizes those that don’t
Championed as one of the most consequential and bipartisan federal housing laws in decades, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act enacted this month makes significant changes across federal housing policy. Included in the 139-page law are a host of provisions that will restrict some institutional investors from...
Capitol
USDA union leaders rally against proposed DC downsizing
A group of current and former U.S. Department of Agriculture employees are calling on the Trump administration to halt the mandated relocation of more than 2,500 employees from its Washington, D.C., headquarters to five regional offices across the country. In an online briefing hosted by federal union leaders...
Local
Post-primary agenda puts city halls, school boards and counties on the line
Arizona’s post-primary agenda on elections, ESAs, housing and water would fall hard on city halls, school boards and counties. Here is what’s on the table, per statehouse reporting, and why local officials should demand sunlight before November.
Elections
Primary victors went big on election integrity, ESAs, housing, water
Key Points: Democratic and Republican voters chose candidates that align with each party’s values Candidates will now have to appeal to a wider range of voters Primary winners have varying […] The post Primary victors went big on election integrity, ESAs, housing, water first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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