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Gilbert Mayor’s Campaign Consultants Awarded $17,000 Contract For Transportation Bond Survey

Aug 5, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | Gilbert awarded a $17,000 contract for a survey to a political consulting firm that Mayor Brigette Peterson used during her election campaign last year. During the campaign, Peterson paid a total of $9,530 to the firm,...

Flagstaff Property Owners Filed Over $23 Million In Claims Over Loss Of Property Rights

Aug 5, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | Over 50 property owners are seeking over $23 million in claims due to Flagstaff’s latest regulations on property rights. The Goldwater Institute is representing the property owners; the think tank noted in their announcement...

Court To Hear Arguments On TRO Against Phoenix Union High School District’s Mask Mandate

Aug 5, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | A Maricopa County Superior Court judge did not rule on the Phoenix Union High School District’s (PXU) mask mandate during an emergency hearing Wednesday. The Kolodin Law Group filed on behalf of PXU biology teacher Douglas...

Congressman Gosar Debuts ‘Gosar Minute’ News; Twitter Shadowbans As ‘Sensitive Content’

Aug 4, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | Representative Paul Gosar, DDS (R-AZ-04) debuted a new series on Sunday to keep his constituents in the loop: “The Gosar Minute.” The series offers fast-hitting facts, commentary, and solutions for current issues, presented by...

State Senator Calls On Attorney General To Investigate Maricopa County

Aug 4, 2021

By Terri Jo Neff | While the public awaits the Arizona Senate’s report on how Maricopa County conducted the 2020 General Election, one senator is demanding Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich investigate the actions of the county’s board of...

Favorability Survey Of Governor Candidates Shows Ample Opportunity To Sway Voters

Aug 3, 2021

By Terri Jo Neff | Current Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and former Phoenix-area television news anchor Kari Lake are nearly even in a favorability, according to a survey released Monday by Phoenix-based OH Predictive Insights (OHPI) about the top...

Ignoring Olympics Costs Candidate Lake Opportunity To Celebrate Arizona Medalists And Draws Critics

Aug 3, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | Arizona’s governor-hopeful and household-name anchorwoman, Kari Lake, received some backlash for criticizing the Olympics and largely ignoring Arizona’s 9 current champions. Lake retweeted a question from Students for Trump...

League Of Arizona Cities And Towns Allowed Cook Review Of Glowing Editorials

Aug 3, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | Taxpayer-funded League of Arizona Cities and Towns (League) apparently penned two opinion pieces on behalf of Pinal County mayors and supervisors praising Representative David Cook (R-Globe), email records reveal. What’s more,...

Gosar Bill Aims To Add Transparency To NEPA Data

Aug 3, 2021

Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar hopes a bill he has introduced will add some transparency to the murky bureaucratic process used to shape environmental policy. Gosar says his NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) Data Transparency and...

Scottsdale Restaurant One of the First to Require Patrons Show Proof of Vaccination

Aug 2, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | Scottsdale’s FnB Restaurant will require patrons to show proof of their vaccination - one of the first restaurants to do so in the valley. However, being vaccinated won’t exempt patrons from masking. FnB will still require...

Landlords Can Now Seek Evictions As Some Have New Tenants Waiting To Move In

Aug 2, 2021

By Terri Jo Neff | Landlords across America are owed more than $15.3 billion in rent arrears, and that amount is expected to hit nearly $19 billion by December, according to a report released last week by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia...

Tucson Sector Border Patrol Agent Killed In Head-On Collision

Aug 1, 2021

TUCSON, AZ – Tucson Sector Border Patrol Agent Dan Cox, and a civilian motorist died in a head-on collision on State Route 86 outside of Sells, Arizona at 12:20 a.m. Saturday, July 31. According to Chief Patrol Agent John R. Modlin, multiple...