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Attorney General Says White House Is Using Arizona As A Petri Dish

Jun 9, 2021

By Terri Jo Neff | Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has initiated several legal maneuvers focused on forcing the Biden Administration to address the immigration crisis impacting Arizona. On Tuesday, he stepped away from the lawbooks and...

Scottsdale Migrant Hotel Answers the Phone as ‘The Suites’

Jun 8, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | The Scottsdale hotel converted into a migrant shelter seemingly overnight several weeks ago still has a working number - and the operator on the other end answers for “The Suites.” The facility has been closed to the public...

Cook Derails House Republican Plans To Pass Budget Bills

Jun 7, 2021

By Terri Jo Neff | Don’t count your chickens until they hatch. That age old adage came into play Monday for Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers when he was unable to secure a yes vote one of the 31 House Republicans, leading to the defeat of three...

Strategic Move Will Force Lawmakers To Explain Vote Against Budget Bills

Jun 7, 2021

By Terri Jo Neff | In a decision seen by some as desperation and others as a brilliant strategic move, House Speaker Rusty Bowers has ordered his 59 fellow Representatives back to work Monday to take up 11 stalled budget bills. Whether Bowers and...

Ramp, Airspace Capacity At Luke AFB Prompt Air Force To Move F-35 Training For Foreign Buyers To Arkansas

Jun 7, 2021

Soon the 425th Fighter Squadron, a Republic of Singapore air force F-16 Fighting Falcon training unit currently based at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, will be calling Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith, Arkansas home. The Department of...

Court Records Show Scottsdale Facility May House Up To Over 500 Migrants At A Time

Jun 6, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | Arizona’s wealthiest town has gained national attention over the last week, after it was discovered that a former hotel was covertly transformed into a migrant safe house almost overnight. A former Homewood Suites in Scottsdale...

Arizona Board Of Regents Agree With Auditor General Finding Of Failure To Provide Adequate Oversight

Jun 6, 2021

By B. Hamilton | The Arizona Board of Regents has agreed “with all the findings,” the Auditor General reached in a recent performance audit related to Arizona’s state universities’ failure to consistently follow its guidelines. The Arizona Board of...

D-Day: “Mighty Endeavor”

Jun 6, 2021

Reprinted from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum | As dawn broke on June 6, 1944, German soldiers defending the French coast at Normandy beheld an awe-inspiring sight—the largest amphibious invasion force in history massed...

As Vaccination Rates Drop, Arizona Health Official Worries About Meeting Biden’s Standards

Jun 5, 2021

By B. Hamilton | As COVID-19 vaccination rates drop sharply in Arizona, health officials are pivoting away from mass-vaccination sites to more community outreach efforts which include relying on pharmacies, doctors’ offices, community events, and...

VIDEO: Phoenix Police Release Touching Tribute To Fallen Officer Ginarro New

Jun 5, 2021

The Phoenix Police Department released late this week, a touching tribute to fallen Phoenix Police Officer Ginarro New. Officer New, age 27, who was killed by a red light runner on May 31. Officer New is survived by his wife Kristen, his mother,...

Bolding Ignored, Glendale To Host Super Bowl LVII

Jun 3, 2021

By B. Hamilton | Rep. Reginald Bolding's demand that the National Football League (NFL) reject Arizona as the site for future Super Bowls because legislators have dared to pass election integrity reforms have apparently been ignored. On Wednesday,...

Protestors, AZ AG Question Wisdom, Legality Of Scottsdale Migrant Detention Center

Jun 3, 2021

By B. Hamilton | On Wednesday, not only did hundreds of protesters let their concerns about the federal government's plan to convert a Scottsdale hotel into a migrant detention center be known, but Arizona's Attorney General did as well. A crowd of...