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Elections
A party-line Senate panel opened an ethics investigation into Sen. Catherine Miranda in 2017 over an unchecked box on a voucher referendum petition. One Republican admitted he had the motions written before the hearing started. Six months later the chairwoman dismissed it. Almost nobody wrote the ending.
Elections
The Recorder, Board of Supervisors, and Elections Department split the work. Confusion about those desks is how bad claims spread.
Capitol
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.
Capitol
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.
Local
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.
Local
Mohave County is reclassifying many short-term rentals as commercial property, raising tax bills and setting up a fight over state law and local control.
Elections
Kolodin won the GOP nod for Secretary of State. Now the race turns on whether voters get plans and metrics, or just labels and slogans.
Capitol
Congress is split on reining in Trump's Iran war powers as gas prices spike. Arizona families feel it first at the pump and later on the federal ledger. Publish the price tag before writing the check.
Elections
Kimberly Yee's reported 55 percent lead over Tom Horne with a margin above 32,000 votes came despite heavier spending against her, including a nearly $200,000 out-of-state ad that used racial imagery, according to the Arizona Globe. The money did not buy a lead, and the pass-thru
Elections
After three failed preemption pushes and a raft of lawsuits, builders, landlords and mobile home operators poured money into Arizona's primaries, backing legislative allies and Warren Petersen for AG. The checks are big. The results voters want will come only if November winners,
Elections
Five legislative contests clarified by the primary now look decisive for control of the narrowly divided Arizona House and Senate in November.
Border
A federal stay in Texas keeps three immigrants detained and offers a rare boost to Trump's policy, as Arizona's campaigns and courts tee up the next round of border and enforcement fights.
Local
Arizona districts are paying premium rates for contracted teachers, with opaque pricing and big-market vendors raising fresh transparency questions for local boards.
Capitol
Hobbs and Biggs must name running mates by Sept. 4. With the role largely undefined, their choices will determine whether Arizona gets efficiency or another layer of bureaucracy, and taxpayers will foot the bill either way.
Elections
House Republicans jammed voter ID to a curb on congressional stock trading. Clever politics, sloppy governing. Arizona has its own trust test: concede the AG primary and make the case to voters.
Elections
Gov. Katie Hobbs banned Arizona executive branch employees from using nonpublic information to wager on prediction markets, as a federal judge blocked the state's criminal case against Kalshi. The shift puts ethics enforcement, not prosecutions, at the center of Arizona's next-m0
Elections
Homeland Security's threats to jail election officials over noncitizen voters lack a clear legal path, experts told Cronkite News. Arizona's recent court wins and audit history point to federal overreach, not imminent prosecutions.
Capitol
Warren Petersen clinches the GOP attorney general nod and Jay Feely advances in CD1, while a separate indictment of perennial Republican candidate Neil DeSanti over alleged illegal voting puts election-integrity rhetoric under a spotlight, per the Arizona Mirror.
Elections
AP calls GOP secretary of state primary for Alex Kolodin as close statewide and legislative races signal a long, resource-heavy count heading into November.
Elections
Arizona's GOP treasurer primary turned sharply personal heading into Tuesday's vote. The barbs mask a core question with real stakes for taxpayers: who sets the state's risk posture and who actually runs the shop day to day.
Elections
A national warning about mass voter challenges, an open-seat fight in LD7, and a federal H-1B crackdown are converging on Arizona's ledgers. The costs will show up in paperwork, timelines, and outcomes that can be measured.
Capitol
Trump's DOJ halted new criminal cases over diesel emissions tampering and the president pardoned nine people convicted of it. Arizona's air and economy need clarity and steady civil enforcement, not policy by pardon.
Elections
LD27's GOP Senate primary has become a referendum on automated license plate readers. With no statewide rules in place, the Payne, Kern split will shape whether Arizona imposes guardrails or rejects expanded surveillance at the Capitol.
Capitol
Goldwater Institute's suit to block an ESA initiative is an ask, not a ruling; Primary Day voters get a faster way to speed counting; and Tom Homan pledges ICE body cams on traffic stops after recent shootings. Competence beats theater if the paperwork matches the promises.
