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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.
Elections
Junelle Cavero was appointed to the Arizona House in April 2024 and sworn in the next morning. Secretary of State records at the time showed she owed $11,750 in late fees from a state Senate campaign she had lost two years earlier. The arithmetic points to roughly sixteen months of unfiled reports.
Capitol
A U.S. Senate stopgap that leaves expiring transportation dollars unrenewed collides with Arizona's lieutenant governor sweepstakes, testing the state's appetite for governing partners over campaign vibes.
Elections
Hobbs is reportedly tapping former Mesa mayor John Giles for a cross-party ticket in Arizona's first election for lieutenant governor. The new office comes with real responsibilities, and voters are choosing not just politics but who will run the machinery of state.
Capitol
WASHINGTON — The stopgap spending bill supported by an overwhelming majority of U.S. senators does not address tens of billions in expiring transportation funding, leaving states facing a massive effective budget cut starting Oct. 1. The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, which authorized highway and transit...
Capitol
Her winning 2022 strategy may prove riskier against Rep. Andy Biggs
Elections
The former Mesa mayor and Trump critic has backed Democrats in Arizona’s biggest recent races
Elections
Elections
Capitol
Capitol
The race between Gov. Katie Hobbs and Congressman Andy Biggs took no time turning negative. The post Hobbs, Biggs launch attack-filled Arizona governor’s race first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
Capitol
As an elementary school counselor, I have the opportunity every day to work with kids who are still learning about social interaction. The post Arizona missed an opportunity to take a leap forward on kids online safety first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
Elections
Arizona's ballot language must be neutral. On Prop 144, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes's explainer reads like a nudge. Judge Adele Ponce should order a text-faithful rewrite and let voters decide the merits.
Elections
WASHINGTON — States do not have time before November’s midterm elections to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating overhauls of their mail-in-voting systems, two dozen Democratic state officials told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. Justices should keep a stay pausing the order in place...
Elections
A conservative legal group is accusing Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes of trying to mislead voters about a Republican ballot measure. The post Conservative group sues Fontes over Prop. 144 explainer first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
Elections
A reported party-line vote advancing Todd Blanche's nomination and his private assurances to restrict abortion drug access put Arizona on notice. Before the Senate votes, the public deserves the memo, not the slogan.
Capitol
Sen. Catherine Miranda has said nothing publicly about the hearing exchange that made her nationally known. The bill she opposed cleared the Senate anyway. Declining to speak was a strategy, and it is worth examining what it purchased.
Local
A Mirror column says Andy Biggs' nod to Sine Kerr's family heritage will not win Latino voters. In Arizona neighborhoods, practical, documentable fixes beat biography every time.
Capitol
For a split second, I thought Andy Biggs had picked a Mexican-born naturalized U.S. citizen as his running mate for governor. He hadn’t. It turned out to be Sine Kerr’s mother. “The daughter of an Army combat veteran and a naturalized U.S. citizen from Mexico, Sine Kerr has lived the American Dream,” read Biggs’...
Border
AG Kris Mayes won't commit to defending Prop. 314 as lawsuits advance, leaving police and border communities waiting on funding, training, and clear rules even as a federal judge declined to block the voter-approved law.
Capitol
AG Kris Mayes won’t say if she'll defend a law allowing state and local police to arrest people entering Arizona illegally between ports of entry. The post Mayes taking wait-and-see approach to Prop 314 lawsuits first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
Capitol
Lawmakers kept Rio Nuevo alive but added an 80% sales tax project rule. The next nine years should be a stress test: track net new tax receipts, not just multipliers, before anyone talks about expanding the district.
Capitol
The most powerful lawmaker in Wisconsin is walking away from his job. The most powerful legislators in North Carolina and Utah lost bids for a new term. Both top lawmakers in Vermont are retiring. The post ‘The job is changing’: Across nation, legislative leaders head for the exits first appeared on Arizona Capitol...
Capitol
The Pollack era of Arizona Globe has begun
Border
OKLAHOMA CITY — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin this weekend implored states and cities to cooperate with federal immigration officials, which he said would lead to safer and lower-profile arrests and deportations. Speaking to a group of Democratic and Republican governors gathered for the...
