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Published articles (148)

  • Scottsdale readies local guardrails as feds roll out Colorado River cutsarizona · Aug 6, 2026
  • Hobbs veto leaves kids alone with chatbots. Bring HB 2311 back.opinion · Aug 6, 2026
  • A deadly rendezvous, a minor suspect, and Arizona’s upside-down prioritiesopinion · Aug 6, 2026
  • Opinion: What bullpen catchers can teach City Hallopinion · Aug 6, 2026
  • Head Start rules on the chopping block. Arizona families need answers in public, not promises in private.local · Aug 6, 2026
  • Blanche vows federal action on mail‑order abortion pills, setting up the next legal fight over mifepristonecourts · Aug 6, 2026
  • Hobbs’s Giles Pick Puts Real Authority on the Ballot, and Her Ticket on Defensecourts · Aug 6, 2026
  • Mayes hedges on Prop 314 defense while voters and sheriffs wait for answerscourts · Aug 6, 2026
  • Stopgap skips $38.6B in extra road money. Arizona should plan for leaner years now.opinion · Aug 6, 2026
  • Littlefield exits, Scottsdale council race tightens to three-for-twoelections · Aug 6, 2026
  • Hobbs’ ‘bipartisan’ ticket hinges on a non-Republican, and unanswered questions about the jobelections · Aug 6, 2026
  • Hobbs says no to Clean Elections debates as planners keep the stage open
elections · Aug 6, 2026
  • Mayes promises pre‑election end to Hobbs ‘pay‑to‑play’ probe. Hobbs still dodges interview.capitol · Aug 6, 2026
  • Cat Videos, Kids Day, and a Museum Betting on a Busy August Weekendculture · Aug 6, 2026
  • The 2026 battleground is the ballot rulebook. Arizona’s trust problem is the tell.elections · Aug 6, 2026
  • Hobbs’ bipartisan pitch wobbles: Records show reported running mate John Giles left GOP in Mayelections · Aug 6, 2026
  • A procurement bill became a referendum kill switch, and Cavero flipped to pass itlocal · Aug 6, 2026
  • Clean Elections Denies Heap Withdrawal as Campaign Funding Stays Frozencourts · Aug 5, 2026
  • HHS signals $150 million legal-services award for unaccompanied children; vendor profile triggers scrutiny on competence, not politicscourts · Aug 5, 2026
  • Hobbs Picked a Running Mate Who Already Left the Partyopinion · Aug 5, 2026
  • Courts to Trump: Put down the climate scissors and pick up a statuteopinion · Aug 5, 2026
  • Hobbs preemptively nixes debates while Arizona’s official organizers still finalize the stageelections · Aug 5, 2026
  • Cavero took the oath owing $11,750 in campaign finance penaltieselections · Aug 5, 2026
  • Federal funding fog meets Hobbs’ Giles trial balloon as Arizona tests for governing adultscapitol · Aug 5, 2026
  • Hobbs reportedly turns to Mesa’s John Giles, setting up a governing test for Arizona’s new No. 2elections · Aug 5, 2026
  • Arizona needs a neutral Prop 144 explainer, not a nudgeopinion · Aug 4, 2026
  • Blanche advances. Arizona needs the memo before the policy fight begins.elections · Aug 4, 2026
  • Months of silence is also an answeropinion · Aug 4, 2026
  • Hobbs team seeks pause on prison healthcare receivership, says court moved too fastcourts · Aug 4, 2026
  • Mirror critiques Biggs’ heritage pitch. Local voters want receipts, not résumés.local · Aug 4, 2026
  • Phoenix Art Museum's Healey Gift Puts Indigenous Modernism on the August Calendarculture · Aug 4, 2026
  • Mayes won’t commit to defending Prop. 314 as border law heads deeper into courtborder · Aug 4, 2026
  • Rio Nuevo keeps its funding. Now prove the returns, not just the multipliers.opinion · Aug 4, 2026
  • Turnover at the Capitol meets a DHS ask: What Arizona’s next legal fights could look likecourts · Aug 4, 2026
  • Report: Contract lapse leaves 20,000 unaccompanied children without lawyers in deportation casescourts · Aug 3, 2026
  • Nguyen keeps confessional shield in place. Voters, not slogans, decide what happens next.elections · Aug 3, 2026
  • Catherine Miranda’s record is more conservative than her 2026 headlines suggestcapitol · Aug 3, 2026
  • High court to decide whether Prop. 145 gets back on Arizona’s ballotcapitol · Aug 3, 2026
  • Biggs taps Sine Kerr for Arizona’s first lieutenant governor slot, elevating rural-water credentials and management stakeselections · Aug 3, 2026
  • Arizona has weeks to lock down rural health dollars. Show the plan now.opinion · Aug 3, 2026
  • Hobbs seeks renewal as competence questions and a 911 funding rethink test Arizona’s governing classelections · Aug 2, 2026
  • Bill Gates on Arizona elections: keep it state‑run, prove it with data, and prepare for federal knockselections · Aug 2, 2026
  • Flagstaff Shakespeare Closes Its Outdoor Summer With Cool Air and Crowdsculture · Aug 2, 2026
  • GOP rift at utility commission collides with rising bills and a hot Novembercapitol · Aug 2, 2026
  • Judge blocks Prop 143, saying it would have banned city and county labor talkslocal · Aug 2, 2026
  • Election confidence is built in the counting room, not the courtroomopinion · Aug 2, 2026
  • Maricopa’s 27‑hour count is a win for speed. Now show the savings.elections · Aug 2, 2026
  • Few upsets, sharper edges: Progressives notch wins as veteran budget hand falls; ID drop‑off draws thousands for faster countselections · Aug 2, 2026
  • Arizona’s place in the next round of federal court fights will be set on the November ballotcourts · Aug 2, 2026
  • Miranda asked a volleyball captain how competitive she really was. The clip did the rest.capitol · Aug 2, 2026
  • No debate, less daylight: Hobbs and Biggs keep voters at arm’s lengthelections · Aug 1, 2026
  • Faster immigration dockets hit a legal speed bump, but Arizona’s courts still feel the squeezeborder · Aug 1, 2026
  • Who decides? Arizona justices defer to churches, Medicaid work rules march on, and a D.C. vandalism case probes grand-jury secrecycourts · Aug 1, 2026
  • Biggs, Kerr puts numbers on the ballot: SNAP errors, data-center costs, and water mathelections · Aug 1, 2026
  • Arizona immigration courts move to permission-only access. Lawsuits could reopen the doors.courts · Aug 1, 2026
  • Hobbs nixes Biggs debate, bets on the trail again as race turns to parallel campaigningcapitol · Aug 1, 2026
  • Three rules, one unanimous finding, and no consequences: the De Los Santos ethics filecapitol · Aug 1, 2026
  • Junior hockey is coming. Now Arizona’s cities need to do the basics in the open.arizona · Aug 1, 2026
  • The feds just put Arizona’s water on the chopping block. Time to negotiate like adults.opinion · Aug 1, 2026
  • Newsies Opens at Mesa Arts Center With a Local Cast Selling Hustleculture · Jul 31, 2026
  • The petition box Catherine Miranda never checked, and the ethics case that died quietlyelections · Jul 30, 2026
  • Phoenix Theatre's Les Misérables Is Holding the Summer Crowdculture · Jul 29, 2026
  • Lockdown limbo claims on Arizona’s women’s death row need logs, not adjectivescourts · Jul 24, 2026
  • New federal housing law brings carrots and sticks to city halls. The details will decide Arizona’s fate.capitol · Jul 24, 2026
  • USDA unions push back on D.C. relocation. Arizona taxpayers should demand the numbers.opinion · Jul 24, 2026
  • Post-primary agenda puts city halls, school boards and counties on the linelocal · Jul 24, 2026
  • Mohave County’s tax reclass on short-term rentals sets up a statewide fight over who calls the shotslocal · Jul 24, 2026
  • Kolodin wins GOP nod for Secretary of State. November should be about operations, not epithets.elections · Jul 24, 2026
  • Doctors’ warnings about Biggs put abortion and health policy on a collision course with the courtscourts · Jul 24, 2026
  • War powers without price tags: Arizona will pay at the pump and on the ledgeropinion · Jul 23, 2026
  • The money did not move the voters: Yee leads Horne despite $200K racialized ad blitzelections · Jul 23, 2026
  • Housing money floods Arizona primaries. Policy wins still have to clear the Capitol.elections · Jul 23, 2026
  • Five districts set to decide control of the Arizona Legislatureelections · Jul 23, 2026
  • Records fight targets Hobbs’ ICE-rights site as JP primary winner faces misconduct cloudcourts · Jul 23, 2026
  • A Texas detention stay, Arizona’s November testborder · Jul 23, 2026
  • Arizona districts pay premiums to staffing firms for teachers. Who’s getting the money?local · Jul 23, 2026
  • Arizona’s first lieutenant governor: undefined job, real consequences for taxpayerscapitol · Jul 22, 2026
  • Quit the legislative twofer and act like adultsopinion · Jul 22, 2026
  • Hobbs bars insider wagers by state workers as Arizona’s Kalshi case collapses under federal preemptionelections · Jul 22, 2026
  • Free-entry Cardinals camp opens in Glendale, and Michael Wilson aims to prove 2025 was no flukearizona · Jul 22, 2026
  • Threats without statutes: Experts see no path to jail Arizona election officials over voter rollselections · Jul 22, 2026
  • Petersen wins AG primary, Feely advances in CD1, and a separate GOP indictment tests election-integrity talkcapitol · Jul 22, 2026
  • Kolodin wins GOP nod for secretary of state, tight down-ballot races test election capacityelections · Jul 22, 2026
  • Petersen opens AG lead as Biggs clinches GOP governor slot, sharpening Arizona’s litigation stakes for Novembercourts · Jul 22, 2026
  • AZ treasurer GOP brawl hits primary day, with stewardship of state dollars on the lineelections · Jul 21, 2026
  • Integrity fights are coming for Arizona’s systems. Measure them, do not mythologize them.elections · Jul 21, 2026
  • Pardons, pollution and Phoenix: pick clarity over chaosopinion · Jul 21, 2026
  • Arizona AI campaign-images suit lands as deepfake laws face courtroom testscourts · Jul 21, 2026
  • In LD27, Republicans face a real test on surveillance, not sloganselections · Jul 21, 2026
  • Goldwater sues to block ESA measure; Primary Day rules and an ICE body-cam pledgecapitol · Jul 21, 2026
  • Low morning turnout, small-town stakes, and a faster path for mailed ballots in Maricopa Countylocal · Jul 21, 2026
  • Ruben Gallego’s Super Bowl math is the problem, not the gossipopinion · Jul 21, 2026
  • Arizona's GOP Primary Is a Test of Addition, Not Just Volumeelections · Jul 20, 2026
  • Mercury pride isn’t the problem. Possessions are.opinion · Jul 20, 2026
  • Arizona's New Budget Needs a Ledger, Not Another Victory Lapcapitol · Jul 20, 2026
  • Liberty scorecard lifts Keshel, Farnsworth and spotlights taxes, utility hikes on primary evelocal · Jul 20, 2026
  • Centralized scans, ticking clocks: Legal mail fight looms over Arizona prisonscourts · Jul 20, 2026
  • Fontes's BallotBot Needs Public Receipts, Not Just a Launch Announcementelections · Jul 20, 2026
  • Feds roll back habitat protections, leaving Arizona with risk and the billcapitol · Jul 20, 2026
  • Endorsements meet disclosure in LD10 as Sheridan says he didn’t know of Anderson’s court-martialelections · Jul 20, 2026
  • Sued firm fuels PAC for Petersen. Taxpayers need receipts, not headlines.elections · Jul 19, 2026
  • DHS threat to prosecute election officials sets up a federal, state clash over voter rollscourts · Jul 19, 2026
  • Phoenix skipped hosting FIFA 2026. The math didn’t pencil out.local · Jul 19, 2026
  • ICE traffic-stop shootings put Arizona’s cooperation policies under the microscopeelections · Jul 19, 2026
  • Allegations Keep Circling Gallego. The Rules May Save Him. Judgment Will Not.capitol · Jul 19, 2026
  • LUCHA adds poll observers as DOJ plans monitors; counties stress the 75-foot ruleelections · Jul 19, 2026
  • Arizona lost the wheel on prison healthcare. The court just took the keys.courts · Jul 19, 2026
  • AG Mayes and GOP leaders align to defend state deportation law as capacity questions loomborder · Jul 19, 2026
  • Arizona lacrosse growth stalls while California surges. Can AIA and local pipelines catch up before 2028?arizona · Jul 18, 2026
  • Judge puts Arizona prison healthcare under five-year receivership, broad powers for new chiefcourts · Jul 18, 2026
  • Trump raises alarms, DHS raises threats. Arizona still awaits instructionselections · Jul 18, 2026
  • Arizona high court: No public comment requirement for elections rulebook, but transparency is still a choiceelections · Jul 18, 2026
  • Arizona’s budget, built on guesses: Publish the math before the bill comes duecapitol · Jul 18, 2026
  • Fontes pushes back on Trump speech and reported DHS pressure, but where’s the plan?elections · Jul 18, 2026
  • Judge says Trump acted in bad faith in tax suit, faults $1.8B ‘anti-weaponization’ movecourts · Jul 18, 2026
  • Jeffries’ AFT pep talk meets Arizona’s spreadsheet realityopinion · Jul 18, 2026
  • Prisons, PAC cash and poll watchers: What Friday’s Capitol edition says about Arizona governing nowcapitol · Jul 17, 2026
  • Vibes are nice. Denominators decide if Arizona’s World Cup watch parties work.opinion · Jul 17, 2026
  • Blanche tells Senate DOJ won’t fight ban on ‘anti-weaponization’ fundcourts · Jul 17, 2026
  • Horne is right about discipline. The fix needs fewer quotas and more backbone.opinion · Jul 17, 2026
  • Tape says fines and failures. Minutes say “Report.”local · Jul 17, 2026
  • Biggs builds a late-cash edge as Hobbs spends fast; Schweikert in the redelections · Jul 17, 2026
  • What taxpayers should expect in the Westbrook case: facts, costs, and accountabilityopinion · Jul 17, 2026
  • Hobbs banks $2.6M in Q2 and fires first TV salvo as GOP rivals lag in cashelections · Jul 17, 2026
  • House votes to retire the penny; rounding rules and costs drive the changecourts · Jul 16, 2026
  • South Carolina’s fast Senate appointment keeps the math, and fiscal stakes, steady for Arizonacapitol · Jul 16, 2026
  • Don’t defund the watchdog: Bipartisan budget cuts the wrong corneropinion · Jul 16, 2026
  • Saguaros are burning while invasives spread. Candidates owe voters a plan, not a slogan.elections · Jul 16, 2026
  • Arizona’s first rounders deliver in Vegas as Peat targets the 29 picked ahead of himlocal · Jul 16, 2026
  • Phoenix’s autograph squeeze: Booming memorabilia market tests the rail at Chase Fieldlocal · Jul 16, 2026
  • Mirror flags Lombardo’s ‘sham’ Green bid and a just‑born Nevada vendor. The fix is transparency.elections · Jul 16, 2026
  • Kelly presses DNI pick on 2020 answers as Arizona officials seek clear, apolitical briefingscapitol · Jul 16, 2026
  • Maricopa’s election fight ends in chambers. Taxpayers now need the receiptselections · Jul 15, 2026
  • House clock vote puts Arizona’s schedule in the spotlight: clocks stay put, coordination changescapitol · Jul 15, 2026
  • Report flags 1,000-plus unmet help requests for Indigenous survivors. Arizona needs the denominators.capitol · Jul 15, 2026
  • CDC pick falters in Senate. Arizona needs competence, not theatrics.opinion · Jul 15, 2026
  • After fatal shootings, Trump tells ICE to resume traffic stops. Arizona courts will test the policy.courts · Jul 15, 2026
  • Lettuce flagged in national illness probe; Arizona governments should prep for targeted transparencylocal · Jul 15, 2026
  • Clock running on Prop. 314 as ACLU seeks last-minute block: Arizona needs clarity, not sloganselections · Jul 15, 2026
  • House moves to end clock changes; Arizona impact hinges on bill detailscapitol · Jul 15, 2026
  • Trump’s ‘communist’ label meets a legal and historical reality checkcourts · Jul 14, 2026
  • ICE told to halt vehicle stops after fatal shootings. Arizona taxpayers need the details nowborder · Jul 14, 2026
  • Trump disables federal election agency. Arizona needs dates, not slogans.elections · Jul 14, 2026
  • Report raises disclosure questions about LD10 candidate Ciara Anderson’s military record and “veteran” labelelections · Jul 14, 2026
  • No-bond detention stays in place. Arizona’s job now is sunlight.border · Jul 14, 2026
  • Democratic governors warn OMB grant overhaul could pinch maternal and reproductive care in Arizonacapitol · Jul 14, 2026
  • Monitors, observers and the making of a calm Election Day in Arizonacapitol · Jul 14, 2026
  • Arizona signs onto Hollywood antitrust brawl. Good. Now show the Arizona stakes.opinion · Jul 14, 2026