Bob Christie
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Three months into the Arizona Legislature's annual session, lawmakers are ready to take some time off and go to a work schedule many would love to have -- just one day a week.
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A federal judge gave bad news to attorneys for the state of Arizona who were trying to get him to block the federal government from collecting income taxes on a tax rebate the Legislature approved last year: He's not likely to immediately do that.
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Arizona would run its own census in 2030 and each ten years thereafter that would include a tally of U.S. citizens -- and use only that citizen-count to redraw state legislative districts under a Republican-backed proposal that could be placed on the November ballot.
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Ignoring pleas from Democrats that victims could be caught up in harsh sentencing, Republican lawmakers on Monday sent a measure to the November ballot that if passed by voters in November would require those convicted of sex trafficking minors to spend life in prison with no chance of ever being released.
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The unanimous vote by Senate Committee on Health and Human Services comes 14 years after Arizona voters approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes. And it is four years after that drug was legalized for recreational purposes.
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Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday ordered National Guard soldiers to be placed near -- but not on -- the border, less than a month after Major Gen. Kerry Muehlenbeck, who heads the Guard, told lawmakers the ones who had previously been there weren't needed.
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Sports fans who want to celebrate an Arizona Diamondbacks World Series win – or drown their sorrows after a loss to the Texas Rangers – won’t have an extra hour to do so in bars across the state.
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Less than four months into the budget year, Arizona already has spending more money for vouchers for students to attend private and parochial schools at state expense than was anticipated through June.
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A new report reveals that the Arizona Commerce Authority could not show that it confirmed that companies that received nearly $11 million in incentives proved that they invested the money or hired the workers they promised at the agreed-to wages.
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Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen announced Monday that the Legislature plans to sue the Biden Administration over the president's declaration of a vast new national monument surrounding much of the Grand Canyon National Park.