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Arizona Republic’s Parent Company to Cut Salaries, Start Layoffs Following $54 Million Loss

Aug 10, 2022

By Corinne Murdock| Gannett, parent company to the Arizona Republic, will commence layoffs and diminish salaries following a poor second quarter last week. Gannett, which also owns half of the Arizona Daily Star, said in a press...

Arizonans Sue to Stop California Union-Backed Ballot Initiative Making Debt Collection Impractical

Aug 10, 2022

By Corinne Murdock | A group of Arizonans are suing to stop a California union-backed ballot initiative aiming to render debt collection futile in the state. The Predatory Debt Collection Act is by the political action committee...

Biden Administration to Bring in Thousands More Migrants Seeking Asylum

Aug 10, 2022

By Corinne Murdock | The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Tuesday it will lift the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). The program required non-Mexican migrants...

How Arizona’s Leaders, Mainstream Media Responded to FBI Raid on President Trump’s Home

Aug 10, 2022

By Corinne Murdock | On Monday evening, FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump’s household-name Florida home, Mar-a-Lago. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking at least 15 boxes of missing records from Trump’s administration that the...

Business Groups Decry Impact Of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act

Aug 9, 2022

By Terri Jo Neff | The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry is hoping the U.S. House of Representatives takes a hard look at H.R. 5376, which was formerly known as the Build Back Better Act until being recently rechristened as the Inflation...

National Border Patrol Union Lambasts NYC Mayor’s Complaints of Migrants in His City

Aug 8, 2022

By Corinne Murdock | Monday, the National Border Patrol Union (NBPC) advised New York Mayor Eric Adams to blame President Joe Biden of the bused-in migrants in his city. The NBPC also said that Adams’ problems were paltry compared to those facing...

Senators Kelly, Sinema Agree To Biden’s Controversial Inflation Reduction Act

Aug 8, 2022

By Corinne Murdock | Over the weekend, Arizona’s two Democratic senators, Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema, fell in line with their party and backed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The IRA passed the Senate on Sunday along party lines,...

Questions Remain In Pinal County As Maricopa County Looks Toward Canvassing Election Results

Aug 7, 2022

By Terri Jo Neff | Maricopa County has reported that more than 855,000 of its nearly 2.5 million voters cast ballots in the Aug. 2, 2022 Primary Election. Roughly 14,000 of those ballots were still in the pre-tabulation process as of Saturday,...

University of Arizona Continues to Defend Natural Transmission Theory of COVID Outbreak

Aug 7, 2022

By Corinne Murdock | Last Tuesday, the University of Arizona (UArizona) defended claims by one of its department heads that COVID-19 jumped from infected animals to humans at a Chinese wet market. UArizona’s news followed the...

Masters Switches Campaign Tone In Apparent Bid to Independent Voters

Aug 7, 2022

By Corinne Murdock | Following Tuesday’s primary election win, Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters appears to have shifted his campaign tone to appeal to independent voters. That base of "other" voters is the second largest, a close...

Arizona’s Congressional Primary Winners

Aug 6, 2022

By Corinne Murdock | Senate: Kelly v. Masters v. Victor Democrat incumbent Senator Mark Kelly ran uncontested. He earned over 506,800 votes. https://twitter.com/CaptMarkKelly/status/1555319137835986944 Republican Blake Masters accrued...

Lake Finally Declared Victor In Republican Gubernatorial Primary

Aug 5, 2022

By Terri Jo Neff | On Wednesday, Kari Lake declared herself victorious in the Republican primary election for governor. On Thursday, the rest of the state followed. Lake has nearly 19,800 more votes than her main challenger, Karrin Taylor Robson,...