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Elections
As Gov. Katie Hobbs seeks four more years, a State 48 News analysis flags management, ethics and affordability trouble spots while a Capitol Times op-ed urges a sober relook at 911 funding. The next term will turn on execution in a divided government that still has to deliver.
Elections
Former Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, now at ASU's Mechanics of Democracy Lab, says Arizona must prove election controls with public evidence, keep administration in state hands, and measure whether new trust-building steps like ID-verified early ballots actually work.
Capitol
After Rep. Ralph Heap ousted Nick Myers in the GOP primary for Arizona's utility regulator, Myers blasted Turning Point Action and urged Republicans to "single-shot" Kevin Thompson, a public rift with pocketbook stakes as Democrats eye an opening.
Local
Judge Greg Como ruled Prop. 143 violates Arizona's Separate Amendment Rule and, as written, would have barred cities and counties from negotiating with any labor organization. Supporters can appeal; otherwise it's off the November ballot.
Elections
Arizona's elections run on mail ballots and local competence, not nationwide mandates or panic policies. Fund the counters, verify with guardrails, publish the results, and let Arizona run Arizona.
Elections
Maricopa hit 99% counted in 27 hours after the primary, a clear throughput gain tied to an ID-present option that kept 23,000 early ballots out of the post-election queue. Now the county owes taxpayers the ledger: costs, hours, and unit results. The same rigor should guide the $-
Elections
Most incumbents advanced, but progressives ousted Democratic Reps. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton and Lydia Hernandez in safe blue districts, trading a veteran budget negotiator for new left-flank voices. A new optional ballot drop-off with ID drew more than 6,000 users in Pima, hintng
Capitol
Kaylie Ray came to a Senate Education Committee hearing to describe forfeiting a match. Sen. Catherine Miranda opened her response by assessing Ray's build, then questioned her competitiveness. The exchange went national within a day, and Miranda's office has never commented.
Elections
Hobbs declined a head-to-head with Biggs, who now says he will attend an Oct. 6 Clean Elections debate. With abortion polling and DHS's election-season assurance on ICE in the background, Arizona voters are being asked to accept more message control and fewer unscripted tests.
Border
A federal judge blocked the bid to cut immigration appeals to 10 days, but faster-case directives still shape daily life in Eloy's courtrooms as attorneys warn of burnout and due-process gaps. Arizona's governor's race adds a rural voice with Andy Biggs tapping Buckeye dairywoman
Elections
Biggs' pick of Sine Kerr signals a rural-water focus while Arizona stares at a potential $208 million SNAP cost share and a data-center subsidy hangover. The next administration's math on error rates, utility cost shifts, and WIFA outcomes will decide who pays.
Capitol
Gov. Katie Hobbs says she will not debate GOP challenger Andy Biggs, repeating her 2022 tactic and shifting the contest to parallel events and documents. Voters lose a side-by-side test, so both tickets now owe Arizona detailed plans and unscreened Q and A.
Capitol
Oscar De Los Santos skipped his House ethics hearing. A bipartisan panel — Republicans and Democrats — still found him guilty of breaking three chamber rules. Then his caucus made him minority leader.
Capitol
Reclamation's framework threatens to strip up to 77% of Arizona's Colorado River allocation. Unity, a firm Lower Basin offer, and strict oversight are Arizona's best leverage before the Record of Decision lands.
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,
