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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.
Elections
Arizona voters can be asked to decide on sweeping proposed changes in state election laws in a single take-it-or-leave-it ballot measure, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge has ruled. The post Judge allows comprehensive election measure to proceed first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
Border
PHOENIX – The unchecked price of freedom from immigration detention.
Elections
The Recorder, Board of Supervisors, and Elections Department split the work. Confusion about those desks is how bad claims spread.
Elections
They say they’re genuine Green Party candidates, but Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier are working hand-in-hand with Arizona’s Republican campaign machine, seemingly violating Clean Elections rules and sending huge chunks of public campaign funding to a shadowy, newly minted Nevada business. The Arizona Green Party...
Capitol
Arizona voters ask: Should elected utility regulators maintain private consulting businesses with clients whose interests intersect with the Commission’s work?
Elections
Republican voters in Arizona sent a litany of election deniers to the November ballot, chief among them the nominees for the top three statewide offices. But they’re far from the only ones who advanced to the general election. The Grand Canyon State has long been at the center of the election conspiracy theories...
Capitol
There are three women on Arizona’s death row, and they got there the usual way. Wendi Andriano beat her terminally ill husband to death. Shawna Forde formed an anti-immigrant militia, then staged a home invasion that left a man and his nine-year-old daughter dead. Sammantha Uriarte and her husband, John Allen,...
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.
Border
Championed as one of the most consequential and bipartisan federal housing laws in decades, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act enacted this month makes significant changes across federal housing policy. Included in the 139-page law are a host of provisions that will restrict some institutional investors from...
Capitol
A group of current and former U.S. Department of Agriculture employees are calling on the Trump administration to halt the mandated relocation of more than 2,500 employees from its Washington, D.C., headquarters to five regional offices across the country. In an online briefing hosted by federal union leaders...
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.
Elections
Arizona voters made their priorities clear in this week’s primary election. The post Primary victors went big on election integrity, ESAs, housing, water first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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.
Local
After the Arizona Legislature refused to consider a bill last year that would have changed how short-term rental properties are classified, one county assessor decided to take matters into her own hands. The post Mohave County reclassifies short-term rentals to commercial, drawing opposition first appeared on...
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.
Elections
WASHINGTON — Political party poll watchers are showing up more and more, usually outside polling places. They have a different mission than the nonpartisan election observers long regarded as bulwarks of credibility, and there’s concern that voters will be confused who’s there to influence them and who’s there to...
Elections
Despite clear GOP support, Kolodin will face national media’s uniform labeling
Capitol
In an age of hyperpartisan politics, governors stand apart. Voters see them differently than they view federal candidates: Your governor fixes roads and bridges, funds your local public school, handles issues that don’t break down along the neat lines of party preference. The post The most competitive governor’s...
Capitol
Capitol
The teachers’ unions and their allies at Save Our Schools (SOS) have proven time and time again that they will do anything to kill universal school choice in Arizona. They’ve fought expansion of the program. They’ve pushed to cap it. They’ve worked with activist reporters in the legacy media with ties to the Red...
Elections
Arizona doctors and progressive organizations are warning voters that Republican gubernatorial nominee Andy Biggs has a long record as an elected official of attacking access to healthcare and abortion care. Biggs will face off with Gov. Katie Hobbs in November to determine who will lead the state for the next four...
Border
The number of cases of cyclosporiasis — a parasitic infection linked to contaminated water or food that causes severe intestinal issues — has more than doubled to over 4,173 cases across 41 states this week, up from the 1,645 confirmed cases in 34 states reported last week by the federal Centers for Disease Control...
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.
