President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Arizona Supreme Court Justice Andrew David Hurwitz to a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.... Read more»
A House subcommittee Wednesday authorized the issuance of a subpoena to the Department of Homeland Security for data about undocumented immigrants with criminal records who have been released after their arrests.... Read more»5
The number of registered voters in Arizona fell by 46,000 since July, as county registrars removed inactive voters from the rolls. Nearly twice as many Democrats as Republicans were purged from the voter lists.... Read more»
“The president is in excellent health and ‘fit for duty’. All clinical data indicate he will remain so for the duration of his presidency,” White House Dr. Jeffrey C. Kuhlman wrote. “The President is current on all age-appropriate screening tests. He is ‘fit at fifty’ and ‘staying healthy at 50+’.”... Read more»
President Bill Clinton’s economic strategy focused on policies that invested in people, innovation, and infrastructure—investments that strengthened communities and our middle class. By pairing that strategy with a smart fiscal approach, his administration and Congress during his two terms in office transformed a weak economy into a fundamentally strong one.... Read more»1
The fallout from the government’s failed $535 million bet in solar panel maker Solyndra expanded Friday, with the Obama administration seeking an independent audit of Energy Department loans even as the Republican-led House Energy committee threatened a subpoena of the president.... Read more»
When Gov. Jan Brewer asked private donors last year to help pay legal fees to defend the state and its controversial SB 1070 immigration law against lawsuits, thousands of Arizonans responded. And so did thousands of people from other states. And other territories and other countries.... Read more»2
Alabama’s H.B. 56 has made the state deeply inhospitable to all immigrants. As U.W. Clemon, Alabama’s first black federal judge, recently put it: In Alabama, “the Hispanic man is the new Negro. … It’s a sad thing to say.”... Read more»5
According to portions of an interview with the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, Rick Perry — the onetime (and, he hopes, future) front-runner in the GOP presidential field finally accepted categorically, all kidding aside, that Barack Obama was born in the United States.... Read more»
Goaded by battalions of corporate lobbyists, members of Congress are working to give a select group of U.S. multinational firms like Apple, Oracle and Pfizer a lavish tax break on a trillion dollars stashed offshore.... Read more»
Despite absolutely no evidence to support it, conservatives base their entire economic message on the empirically disproven notion that businesses aren’t hiring because of regulatory burdens placed on them by the federal government.... Read more»
Immigration officials announced that they deported nearly 400,000 undocumented immigrants in fiscal 2011, setting a record for a third consecutive year under the Obama administration.... Read more»1
The Senate has passed and sent to the president a bill that should end years of confusion over which federal agency has jurisdiction over the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir in Coconino County.... Read more»
On Oct. 6 the Senate took such a step by passing S.R. 201 and moving it to the House. The resolution expresses regret for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the six decades of anti-Chinese American persecution that followed. It also reaffirms America’s commitment to protecting civil rights.... Read more»
We kick off the show with Jeff Rogers, chairman of the Pima County Democratic Party.... Read more»
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