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Posted Jun 15, 2022, 7:06 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy & Jim Small/Arizona Mirror
Arizona State Senate Republican leaders announced Tuesday that they want to make it illegal for anyone under 18 to attend drag shows in Arizona, though the actual details of what will be proposed are a “work in progress,” the measure’s likely sponsor said.... Read more»
Posted Mar 17, 2022, 7:00 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A bill brought to the legislature by business leaders would add social media messages to the state’s extortion law and could make it so those who leave bad reviews could be subject to a class 2 felony, the typical minimum sentence for which is 3 years in prison. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 3, 2022, 9:38 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
A proposal that would have taken the power to fill legislative vacancies from county boards of supervisors and give it exclusively to political party activists fell short in the Arizona Senate after two Republicans opposed it. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 21, 2022, 4:39 am
Laura Gómez
/Arizona Mirror
Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a proposal to bar transgender student athletes from playing on women’s sports teams for Arizona high schools and colleges.... Read more»
Posted Dec 3, 2021, 1:34 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Legislative leaders presented a list of grievances over Latino districts, competitiveness and a GOP lawmaker’s attempt to influence his Tucson-area legislative district, as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle got an opportunity to address the state’s remapping panel in person.... Read more»
Posted Oct 22, 2021, 2:37 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
State Sen. Vince Leach has accused Tucson of violating state law by moving to fire government employees who refuse to be vaccinated by the beginning of December. About $100 million could be held back from the city budget if the AG's Office upholds the complaint.... Read more»
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Posted Aug 26, 2021, 7:45 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
When the Arizona Supreme Court ruled against an income tax hike voters approved last year, it illuminated another K-12 funding issue that could strip $600 million a year out of Arizona schools - an education spending limit voters imposed on the state more than four decades ago.... Read more»
Posted Jul 7, 2020, 10:44 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Two Republican legislators used their social media accounts to promote the radical QAnon conspiracy movement over the Independence Day weekend.... Read more»
Posted May 27, 2020, 2:15 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
For the second time this month, the Senate has adjourned the 2020 legislative session. This time, it may stick.... Read more»
Posted May 21, 2020, 4:50 pm
Dan Shearer
/Green Valley News
The Pima County Board of Supervisors on Thursday approved a final version of regulations aimed at restaurants reopening but not without a warning from one member who said they are ignoring "the 500-pound gorilla in the room."... Read more»
Posted May 18, 2020, 1:02 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Several Republican lawmakers from Arizona are urging the federal government not to provide funding to states and cities that are coping with the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as Arizona faces a projected budget deficit of more than a billion dollars.... Read more»
Posted May 7, 2017, 1:31 pm
Jim Small & Evan Wyloge/Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
Teachers who marched on the Capitol in support of doubling the salary boost that lawmakers were considering went home empty-handed, as Republican lawmakers backed a budget that grants a two-percent increase over the next two years, saying there simply wasn’t money available. But that figure is dwarfed by how much tax revenue the state doesn’t collect each year: In fiscal year 2016, state law allowed $13.7 billion in taxes to go uncollected through a litany of exemptions, deductions, allowances, exclusions or credits.... Read more»
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