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Cities, counties, school boards, and the state decisions that land closest to home — including Capitol, elections, and border coverage.
Includes Local Government plus State Capitol, Elections, and Border & Growth coverage.
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Arizona’s public schools have lost tens of thousands of students since 2016, the result of declining birth rates, an aging population and rising housing costs. The post Arizona grapples with school closures amid K-12 enrollment decline first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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Arizona advocates and city leaders say a new federal proposal to narrow who gets counted in the 2030 census would make it harder to meet public needs and may be unconstitutional, per the Arizona Mirror.
Elections
A pair of Green Party candidates dismissed allegations they fraudulently obtained millions in public campaign funding as a “black helicopter” conspiracy theory, but the director of the Clean Elections Commission told the Arizona Supreme Court on Monday that investigators have already uncovered 17 voters who say...
Capitol
Arizonans are already being squeezed for all they have by their local governments. But apparently, the City of Tempe thinks taxpayers still have more to give. Now, Tempe officials are asking voters to approve Proposition 424, which would impose a new 0.5% sales tax on residents already struggling with the rising...
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Community advocates and city leaders are sounding the alarm over a federal push to make sweeping changes to the census, warning that those changes will make it harder to meet public needs. Last month, the Census Bureau published a proposal to count only citizens and lawful permanent residents when the census is...
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The sheer size of investment in data centers is drawing concern as it surpasses all other historical booms and crowds out other more job-creating ventures. Until now, no industry had driven the U.S. economy with such force since the railroad expansion of the late 1800s, when titans battled one another to lay the...
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Suspicious letters, some of which contained unknown substances, were sent to three of Arizona’s Democratic members of Congress, just days after the Secretary of State’s Office was evacuated because of an envelope filled with white powder. In a joint statement, U.S. Reps. Adelita Grijalva, Yassamin Ansari and Greg...
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Congressman Andy Biggs trails Gov. Katie Hobbs in campaign fundraising and spending in the governor’s race, but Turning Point USA is helping him catch up. The post Turning Point’s $18 million media blitz helps Biggs close spending gap with Hobbs first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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Democrats are aiming to add several new trifecta governing blocks in the midterm elections, capitalizing on a favorable political environment to elevate the party’s power in the states as it also seeks control of Congress. The post Dems push for new governing trifectas in favorable environment first appeared on...
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Democrats have used President Donald Trump’s unpopularity to expand the midterm map, and analysts project the party carries momentum heading into the final two weeks of the election cycle, even as Democrats are expected to flip fewer U.S. House seats than wave elections this century. The Cook Political Report with...
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PHOENIX – Migrant encounters along Arizona’s border have plummeted, but deaths in the Sonoran Desert persist as humanitarian workers blame enforcement policies for pushing migrants to dangerous terrain.
Elections
Partisanship in the Legislature has already weakened the state’s ability to reach water policy solutions, experts say. The post With water policy an election issue, experts hope attention will spur solutions first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health. The new division is set to work with the agency’s existing Office of Research on Women’s Health, which was established in 1990 and “has served as the focal point for...
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If Republicans can’t hold on to a pair of legislative seats in a competitive and wealthy legislative district, Democrats could find themselves in control of the Arizona House of Representatives for the first time in 60 years. While Republicans labor to maintain the majority they’ve held in the chamber uninterrupted...
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Party control is up for grabs in 15 state legislative chambers across the country as Republicans are increasingly on the defensive this midterm election cycle, a new analysis found. The nonpartisan newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics released its final analysis of...
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Voters are being inundated with political advertising as gubernatorial candidates empty their campaign coffers ahead of the midterm elections. The post Gubernatorial ad spending ramps up ahead of midterms first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
