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Arizona House And Senate Pass Bills To Finish Border Wall
By Corinne Murdock | Both the Arizona House and Senate passed bills this week to supply hundreds of millions for Arizona to finish construction on its portion of the border wall. On Wednesday, the Arizona House passed along party lines State...
House Passes Open Meetings Expansion, Preventing Officials From Turning Away Public
By Corinne Murdock | On Wednesday, the Arizona House approved a bill to expand open meeting law to require enough seating for anticipated attendance and that the agenda include the time when the public may have physical access to the meeting place....
House Classifies Worship As Essential to Prevent Repeat of 2020 Shutdowns
By Corinne Murdock | The Arizona House passed HB2507 on Wednesday, a bill declaring that religious services are to be considered essential during a state of emergency. While all House Republicans voted for the bill, several Democrats voted against...
Arizona Congressman Calls for Seizure of American Truckers’ Property Over Convoy Protest
By Corinne Murdock | Congressman Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-07) advocated that authorities take away the trucks from truckers participating in the U.S. version of the “Freedom Convoy” that took Canada’s capital by storm one month ago: “Freedom Convoy USA...
Almost 154k Southwest Border Crossings in January, Highest in Over 20 Years
By Corinne Murdock | According to the latest data released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), law enforcement encountered nearly 154,000 illegal immigrants crossing the Southwest border. This number doesn’t include those illegal...
Support Growing For Lieutenant Governor Position In Arizona
By Terri Jo Neff | Voters would have the chance in November to approve adding a Lieutenant Governor position to the slate of Arizona’s executive officers if a bill introduced by Sen. J.D. Mesnard is signed into law. Senate Bill 1255 provides...
House Passes Bill Giving Parents Right to Choose Whether Children Mask Up For School
By Corinne Murdock | State Representative Joseph Chaplik’s (R-Scottsdale) bill to leave a child’s masking up to parents passed in the House last Thursday in a party-line vote, 31-28. HB2616 requires that public and charter school districts — as...
State House Moves Ahead With 2 Voter Registration Bills
By Terri Jo Neff | Two bills designed to tweak Arizona’s voter registration laws had third readings in the House on Tuesday, resulting in party line votes of 31 to 28. House Bill 2237 stipulates that a department, division, agency, or political...
Arizona House Passes Bill Eliminating Algebra II Graduation Requirement
By Corinne Murdock | Last week, the Arizona House passed a bill removing algebra II from the mathematics pathway required for high schoolers to graduate, instead offering alternative courses including personal finance, computer science, statistics,...
Arizona Legislature Approves K-12 Aggregate Expenditure Limit Increase
By Terri Jo Neff | Arizona lawmakers have increased the aggregate expenditure limitation (AEL) for the state’s K-12 schools, eliminating the need for those schools to make more than $1.1 billion in spending cuts with several months left in the...
AZ Federation Of Republican Women To Hold State Meeting In Tucson This Week
By Terri Jo Neff | Several hundred women will be descending on Casino Del Sol later this week for the winter state meeting of the Arizona Federation of Republican Women (AzFRW). For the last 98 years, the AzFRW has been dedicated to empowering...
Senator Sinema’s Illegal Immigrant Bathroom Stalker Petitions Against Federal-Only Voter Bill
By Corinne Murdock | Karina Ruiz de Diaz, an illegal immigrant who qualified for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and is hedging on President Joe Biden’s promise of a pathway to citizenship, petitioned to end a bill prohibiting...
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