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Court Declines To Rule On Eligibility Of GOP House Candidate Michael Way

Sep 10, 2024

By Staff Reporter | The Maricopa County Superior Court declined to weigh in on whether Republican House candidate Michael Way is qualified to run, instead opting to dismiss the complaint. Way is running in Legislative District 15. In the Friday...

Tucson Looks To Implement Transaction Privilege Tax For Social Projects

Sep 10, 2024

By Staff Reporter | The Tucson City Council is looking to implement a new transaction privilege tax to pay for a number of social projects. The transaction privilege tax would be temporary (10 years) and amount to one-half cent (.5 percent). The...

Secretary Of State Argues Duplicate Signatures Shouldn’t Disqualify Prop 140 From Ballot

Sep 9, 2024

By Staff Reporter | Secretary of State Adrian Fontes argued in a new brief for an ongoing court case that duplicate signatures shouldn’t be cause for Proposition 140 to be removed from the ballot. Challengers to the proposition say they found...

Reps. Jones And McGarr Seek Re-Election To Protect Arizona’s Border

Sep 9, 2024

By Staff Reporter | Two Republicans from southern Arizona are key for their party’s continued control of the state legislature. State Representatives Cory McGarr and Rachel Jones are running for re-election to Arizona Legislative District 17. Both...

Two Ballot Measures Are Struggling For Public Support

Sep 9, 2024

By Daniel Stefanski | Two ballot referrals from the Arizona Legislature may be on thin ice as voters prepare their decisions for November’s General Election. A poll released this week from Noble Predictive Insights (NPI) showed that both...

Two Phoenix Police Officers Shot, One Killed By Fleeing Suspect

Sep 8, 2024

By Matthew Holloway | One Phoenix Police officer is dead and another remains hospitalized in critical condition. Phoenix Police Officers Zane Coolidge and Matthew Haney were dispatched to a call of a suspect attempting to break into a vehicle on...

Phoenix Mayor Refusing To Debate Opponent

Sep 8, 2024

By Staff Reporter | It appears there won’t be a debate for the Phoenix mayoral race. Matt Evans, the Republican challenger to incumbent Democratic Mayor Kate Gallego, announced on Tuesday that neither Gallego or her campaign had ever responded...

Sen. Burch’s Voting Record Shows History Of Support For Open Borders While Being Soft On Crime

Sep 8, 2024

By Staff Reporter | A liberal Democrat is attempting to maintain her representation of a middle-of-the-road Phoenix-area legislative district for another term in office. State Senator Eva Burch of Arizona Legislative District 9 is seeking to make a...

Horne Expands School Safety Partnership, Adding Hundreds Of School Resource Officers

Sep 7, 2024

By Matthew Holoway | The State of Arizona is deploying School Resource Officers (SROs) into additional schools through 2026. The firm Off Duty Management will be facilitating the deployment of armed, uniformed police officers into multiple schools...

Maricopa County Attorney Declined To Back Election Integrity Reform Deal

Sep 7, 2024

By Staff Reporter | UPDATE: The Arizona GOP and Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell issued a joint announcement on Friday clarifying that the bipartisan observation program used in this year’s primary will be in place for the general...

Vance Points Out Harris’ Complicity In Border Crisis, Fentanyl Deaths, And Child Sex Trafficking

Sep 7, 2024

By Matthew Holloway | On Wednesday evening, a crowd of over 2,000 people, both at Generation Church in Mesa and in overflow seating gathered by Turning Point USA, greeted Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance for a rally and vote chasing...

New Poll Shows Strong Support For More Secure Border Through Prop 314

Sep 6, 2024

By Daniel Stefanski | A border security ballot measure might be headed for victory this coming November if numbers from a recent poll hold up. This week, Noble Predictive Insights (NPI) released a poll, showing that Proposition 314 (the Secure the...