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Saguaro Signal desk
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.
Capitol
The Legislature sent a bipartisan, tailored kids-and-AI bill to the Ninth Floor. Hobbs swatted it away at the buzzer, and Arizona's families pay the price.
Capitol
A Phoenix killing tied to a paid-sex rendezvous is a reminder that the illegal sex market bleeds into our neighborhoods. Arizona can fund reentry and still reassert the boring but vital work of order.
Local
HHS signaled it will slash Head Start regulations by 2027. Arizona's 16,500 enrolled children, and the programs that serve them, need public commitments now on class sizes, teacher qualifications, and disability screening if federal floors fall.
Local
A Cronkite News report on bullpen catchers doubles as a civics lesson for Arizona cities: reward the quiet, consistent work at the edges and cut the PR fog at the podium.
Elections
The Southern Poverty Law Center Thursday commemorated the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act amid ongoing attacks on the landmark legislation. Speakers at the event celebrated the impact of the law, which reversed decades of disenfranchisement across the South, but warned of recent attempts to roll back...
Capitol
The Senate's stopgap keeps the lights on but lets $38.6 billion a year in extra transportation cash expire Oct. 1.
Elections
Hobbs' reported pick of John Giles as running mate sells bipartisanship, but voter records show he left the GOP in May. With a powerful new office on the line, Hobbs owes voters specifics on the lieutenant governor's actual job.
Elections
Bob Littlefield quits the Scottsdale council race after the canvass, narrowing November to three candidates for two seats and throwing 22,091 votes into play.
Capitol
Advocates, experts and lawmakers say Arizonans leaving incarceration need more than just a job to create a stable life — they need an actual career path. The post Career paths key to Arizona post-incarceration success first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
Elections
Hobbs preemptively rejects Clean Elections debates while organizers are still finalizing invitations, setting up an official forum that may proceed without the incumbent as Andy Biggs says he'll show up.
Capitol
Mayes promises a pre-election finish to the Hobbs pay-to-play probe as the governor avoids committing to an interview, Sunshine's rates surge, and disclosure gets vetoed twice.
Capitol
The Trump administration appears poised to gut the central policies that shape Head Start, a popular and long-established early childhood education program that serves the country’s neediest children. The Department of Health and Human Services announced the changes Thursday. The federal Office of Information and...
Elections
Axios-sourced voter records, reported by Arizona Globe, show John Giles left the GOP in May and later pulled a Democratic primary ballot. Hobbs' bipartisan branding looks more like theater than persuasion.
Elections
Nine GOP-led states will vote on changing initiative rules this fall. Missouri voters already rejected a district-by-district veto by 80 percent.
Local
HB 2873 started as a bidding-procedures bill, was gutted in a Senate committee, and came back as a retroactive tool to void municipal referendum petitions. The House defeated it 27 to 24 on June 11. Hours later four members reversed their votes, Junelle Cavero among them, and it passed 31 to 27.
Elections
There may be no more boring and arcane argument in American politics than the debate over process. But this year’s midterm elections feature a host of initiatives seeking to tweak the obscure rules by which those measures qualify for state ballots. The post In GOP-controlled states, the midterms are battlegrounds...
Elections
Hobbs’ reported running mate left the GOP in May after years of endorsing and campaigning for Democrats
Capitol
OKLAHOMA CITY — State leaders of both parties say the federal government — including the president — wields too much power, and they want to see more authority returned to the states. Bipartisan groups of governors and state lawmakers held major gatherings in recent days where issues of state authority became a...
Elections
Border
Capitol
Elections
Gov. Katie Hobbs said Tuesday she's looking forward to the end of Attorney General Kris Mayes’ two-year-long investigation into t whether she was involved in a "pay-to-play'' scheme. The post Mayes expects ‘pay-to-play’ investigation to wrap before election first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
Elections
John Giles dropped his Republican registration in May. Calling him a bipartisan bridge asks voters to ignore the paperwork.
Elections
Gov. Katie Hobbs says she will not debate, even as Arizona's official debate organizers are still finalizing invitations and format. That choice could leave voters without a shared-stage test while campaigns trade claims and op-eds fill the gap.
