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Republican Legislators Continue Focus On Parental Rights

Mar 3, 2023

By Daniel Stefanski | Republicans in the Arizona Legislature continue to advance bills that would increase parental choice, transparency, and involvement in their children’s education; and some of those proposals are being met with incredible...

Biden Admin Gives Tucson $900k For Equity-Focused Bike And Pedestrian Bridge

Mar 2, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | The Biden administration gave the city of Tucson $900,000 to build a biking and pedestrian bridge. The city's initiative is one of 45 projects nationwide to receive a portion of $185 million in funds, the only one in Arizona to...

Arizona Senate Passes Bill Requiring Transparency Of Inaugural Funds On Unanimous Vote

Mar 2, 2023

By Daniel Stefanski | Republicans and Democrats might have had different motives for supporting a bill that would require Arizona governors to operate with more transparency with their inaugural funds, but they managed to come together to...

Toma, Petersen Try Again To Reach Accord With Hobbs

Mar 2, 2023

By Daniel Stefanski | Legislative Republicans continue to search for avenues to reach an accord with the Governor’s Office on the new fiscal year budget, and on Tuesday, the leaders of the House and Senate took a new approach to bring Arizona’s...

Gilbert Leaders Apologize For ‘Enemy List’ Ranking Residents

Mar 1, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | Last Wednesday, the town of Gilbert apologized for creating a document ranking residents based on their support or opposition of a road widening project. Maricopa County island resident Rich Robertson presented the...

WESD Accepts LGTBQ Community While Devaluing Christians

Mar 1, 2023

By Terri Jo Neff | At a time when one-fourth of all educator positions are vacant statewide, one Arizona school board has voted to reduce the number of university students pursuing education degrees who can do their on-site training in their...

ASU Also Paying For Children’s Gender Transitions

Mar 1, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | Arizona State University (ASU) began paying for children’s gender transitions at the start of the year, as part of a health care plan similar to one provided by at least one other state university. ASU offers up to...

Flagstaff Proposes Decriminalizing Abortion Law Violations

Feb 28, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | The city of Flagstaff is proposing to effectively decriminalize abortion. The proposed resolution is listed currently on the draft agenda for next week’s planned formal meeting. The resolution would permit...

Phoenix Looks To Ban “Income Discrimination” For Housing

Feb 28, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | The city of Phoenix will vote on whether to ban income discrimination for housing during the next upcoming council meeting. The ban would likely have the most significant impact for the homeless and low-income who receive...

Hobbs Expected To Veto Bill That Prevents Discrimination Based On “Social Score”

Feb 27, 2023

By Daniel Stefanski | Arizona Republicans continue to take action to protect the financial interests and futures of their constituents – even though these current efforts face an uncertain fate with Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs’ veto stamp looming...

Two Top Maricopa County Officials Leaving Over Next Few Weeks

Feb 27, 2023

By Terri Jo Neff | Maricopa County officials have been working for several weeks on replacing County Manager Joy Rich, who is retiring in early April. Now, the county’s top IT employee is also leaving. Chief Information Officer (CIO) Ed Winfield is...

U.S. Lawmakers Hear Of Mounting Costs And Frustrations To Yuma Area Residents

Feb 26, 2023

By Terri Jo Neff | It was a hearing two years in the making, but for government officials, business leaders, and nonprofit operators in Yuma County the sentiment toward the recent field hearing conducted by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee was...