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Tuesday, October 13, 2026Tue, Oct 13
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Morning Signal: Arizona news for Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Key stories highlight declining homicides, rising education concerns, and legal challenges over public safety funding in Arizona.

Saguaro Signal Desk • Oct 13, 9:00 AM

Courts

Attorneys for Lake, Finchem lose bid to avoid paying legal penalties

Arizona Capitol Times • Oct 13, 3:27 PM

(from Arizona Capitol Times)

Elections

Clean Elections Commission to high court: Green Party candidates’ harm is self-inflicted

Arizona Mirror • Oct 13, 3:15 PM

(from Arizona Mirror)

Elections

Supreme Court won’t hear bid to overturn sanctions against Kari Lake’s lawyers

Arizona Mirror • Oct 13, 2:12 PM

(from Arizona Mirror)

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The true cost of mass deportation isn’t just the price tag

As a college student in South Phoenix and someone who was once undocumented myself, I know deportation is not an abstract political talking point. I have watched friends and neighbors disappear from our community after being deported and the lasting damage that separation leaves behind. A neighbor shared how her...

Arizona Mirror • Oct 13, 1:43 PM

(from Arizona Mirror)

Elections

Trump’s voter-data collection scheme is an illegal nationwide ‘dragnet,’ judge rules

Three weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge. The blistering court decision comes after the Department of Justice pressured or sued states...

Arizona Mirror • Oct 13, 12:46 PM

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Arizonans Can Have Fast, Accurate, Secure, Transparent Election Results with Prop 144

Arizona’s future belongs to its citizens. Only their votes should decide it, foreign money should not influence it, and they should not be left waiting weeks for answers after every election. Proposition 144 puts those principles into Arizona’s Constitution. You can read it for yourself. It is short, fits on one...

AZ Free News • Oct 13, 11:04 AM

(from AZ Free News)

Arizona

Who is to blame for Marvin Harrison Jr.’s now-concluded Cardinals tenure?

TEMPE – Once tabbed as a game-breaking receiver, Marvin Harrison Jr.’s Cardinals tenure ended with a thud as the team traded him to Houston. How did it come to this?

Cronkite News • Oct 13, 10:58 AM

(from Cronkite News)

Elections

Arizona’s secretary of state race pits an election defender against an election denier

Arizonans will soon weigh in on the future of the state’s elections — and once again, they face a choice between a defender or a skeptic. Democrat Adrian Fontes, a lawyer and former county recorder who has spent years championing the state’s voting system, is seeking a second term as secretary of state in this […]

Arizona Mirror • Oct 13, 9:41 AM

(from Arizona Mirror)

Local

Dysart School Board Cuts Public Comment Time in Half

Board member criticizes seemingly random application of law

The Arizona Globe • Oct 13, 9:36 AM

(from The Arizona Globe)

Elections

Arizona Morning Briefing, 10-13: Who Is Sending “Official” Campaign Texts? Why Did Corp. Comm Delete Open Meeting Video? Scottsdale Debate. And More

The Arizona Globe • Oct 13, 9:05 AM

(from The Arizona Globe)

Capitol

Researchers point to community anti-violence programs, pandemic recovery in historic homicide decline

As candidates debate public safety ahead of the midterm elections, a new assessment of the nation’s historic homicide decline suggests there is no single explanation for the drop — and that some widely discussed enforcement strategies may have played little role. A survey of nearly 50 crime scholars convened by the...

Arizona Mirror • Oct 13, 7:00 AM

(from Arizona Mirror)

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AZGOP Calls For Investigation Of Tammy Caputi Alleging Fraud, Forgery, And Perjury

Arizona Daily Independent • Oct 12, 8:12 PM

(from Arizona Daily Independent)