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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.
Capitol
Aaron Saucedo was arrested in 2017 and charged with nine murders and other crimes for a shooting spree that police and press called the Serial Street Shooter. If he is ever found guilty of those crimes, he will be among the state’s most prolific serial killers. And he faces nine possible death sentences. But first, […]
Elections
Officials in Mohave County, Arizona, walked into a public meeting last year with bad news for their bosses. The rural, bright-red county wanted to adopt a type of ballot paper with watermarks, embedded fibers, microprinting, and other security features for future elections. Its elected supervisors had previously...
Capitol
Introduction, committees, caucus math, the governor's desk, and the veto pen. The press conference is optional. The process is not.
Capitol
WASHINGTON — Republicans celebrated last year when they barred Medicaid payments from going to Planned Parenthood for one year, predicting the financial impact would hollow out the organization. A year later, with that section of the “big, beautiful” law set to expire July 4, GOP lawmakers are trying to find a way...
Elections
Do your own research — but if you’re looking for a starting point, here’s the giant leap: a compilation of Republican primary “Golden Tickets” from groups and leaders across Arizona.
Capitol
The new No. 2 is not a ribbon-cutting intern. Succession, assigned duties, and ticket politics make the office consequential from day one.
Local
Boards hire superintendents, set local policy, and approve budgets inside state law. They do not run Arizona from a cafeteria dais.
Capitol
Arizona ratepayers already know what it feels like to watch their electric bills climb. In just the last few years, rates have increased by 27% across Arizona, all while environmentalists and Democrats in Washington claimed that trillions of dollars in subsidies for “renewables” would drive down costs....
Capitol
After months of vetoes and walking away from the table, Hobbs has finally signed a budget. A budget that looks pretty much the same as the one Legislative Republicans sent up to her desk at the beginning of May. A budget she vetoed, and that she and her colleagues in the Legislature bashed repeatedly. So, what...
Elections
The Independent Redistricting Commission, census data, and competing definitions of fairness decide who represents whom for a decade.
Capitol
For generations, Arizona’s wide-open land has supported ranchers, farmers and the communities that helped build our great state. Then, the climate activists came along. Armed with nothing more than junk science from climate “experts” like Al Gore and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they got busy imposing costly green...
Capitol
Assessed values, tax rates, exemptions, and the overlapping jurisdictions on your bill. The total is local even when the anger is statewide.
Elections
PHOENIX, ARIZONA – The Arizona Freedom Club PAC today announced its endorsements in several key local races throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area, backing candidates committed to protecting taxpayers, promoting public safety, and advancing conservative leadership in their local communities. “These candidates...
Border
For decades, Arizona has been a national model for how to responsibly manage and develop water resources. As a result, our state has enjoyed years of economic growth while welcoming millions of new residents to live and work here. Then, Governor Katie Hobbs came along. In 2023, the Hobbs administration imposed...
Elections
Most Arizona ballots are cast before Election Day. The rules for returning, verifying, and curing them are where confidence is won or lost.
Capitol
A recent op-ed in the Arizona Republic by the Arizona Center for Economic Progress argued that the legislature’s budget “doesn’t add up” and that Arizona needs a “reality check.” We agree a reality check is in order, but definitely not the kind being offered. The argument, which has become the standard refrain from...
Elections
PHOENIX, ARIZONA – Today, the Freedom Club PAC announced General Election endorsements for statewide, county, municipal, and school board races. The Arizona Freedom Club PAC today announced its legislative endorsements for key Arizona House and Senate races, supporting candidates committed to protecting individual...
Border
Assured supply rules, CAP dependence, groundwater basins, and developer promises. Suburb growth is a water story before it is an HOA story.
Capitol
This November, Tucson voters are being asked (again) to approve a 25-year franchise agreement between Tucson and Tucson Electric Power (TEP). Franchise agreements are generally standard arrangements that allow utilities to use public rights-of-way for poles, wires, and infrastructure. But there is nothing standard...
Local
Charter cities write more of their own structure. They still live inside the Arizona Constitution, state statutes, and statewide preemption fights.
Capitol
How much are Phoenix public schools paying activist speaker Calvin Terrell to teach students to “decolonize,” claim ICE is the “slave patrol,” and encourage students to “risk it all for justice”?
Capitol
Less than an hour had passed from when Republicans delivered a budget to Katie Hobbs desk yesterday to when she stamped it with a ‘veto.’ No one is surprised, since from the moment she walked out of negotiations six weeks ago and “challenged” Republicans to show their budget hand, she had already made up her mind...
Capitol
Baseline, one-time money, structural balance, and the difference between a signing ceremony and a sustainable ledger.
Elections
After Loss, Mohave Supervisor Candidate Plans Arizona Supreme Court Appeal
