Ivonne Salazar wants to get a better-paying job so she can help her 18-year-old daughter, who’ll be attending Arizona State University this fall, pay for college expenses. But Salazar’s job opportunities are limited because she is undocumented. She has been living in Arizona without legal status for 23 years. The…
Should 1.7 million acres of land around the Grand Canyon be designated a national monument? It’s certainly a topic of hot debate in Arizona. Supporters of the monument say it will permanently protect an ecologically fragile and historically significant area from uranium mining, while those opposing the plan say it’s…
A string of dark-money organizations with ties to the billionaire Koch brothers is helping Arizona politicians and special-interest groups fight the popular Grand Canyon National Heritage Monument proposal, tax documents show. The money trail begins with a conservative political advocacy organization funded in part by Charles and David Koch and…
Arizona and Maricopa County officials violated federal law and the Constitution with bad legislation and the bungled March 22 election, a group of voters and the Democratic Party allege in a lawsuit filed today. The anticipated lawsuit, which the Democratic National Committee said this week would be forthcoming, blasts the…
The U.S. Senate race in Arizona between Republican incumbent John McCain and Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick has reached a new milestone: For the first time since Kirkpatrick announced she was challenging McCain, polls show the two candidates tied at 48 percent. For months Kirkpatrick has been slowly catching up to McCain,…
For months now, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have engaged in a back-and-forth battle over immigration. This was again in full display this week, with both campaigns attacking their opponent’s record on the issue. The Sanders team held a conference call with reporters to blast Clinton for opposing a plan…
It’s no secret that Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar thinks the proposed Grand Canyon National Heritage Monument is part of a conspiracy put forth by “radical environmentalists” to “lock up 1.7 million acres of land” and kill local business, but if a three-hour event he hosted this week is any indication,…
House Speaker David Gowan today dropped the requirement that reporters must sign a background-check form to receive House floor privileges. The decision came under intense pressure from media outlets, and also followed New Times’ article that revealed that the form wasn’t really required to perform the sort of background checks that…
According to a recent poll performed by Sheriff Paul Babeu’s hired hand, a plurality of likely GOP voters in Arizona’s First Congressional District apparently don’t care about the various allegations swirling about the sheriff’s use of RICO funds. Nor do these reputedly conservative voters — about 35.7 percent of the poll…
For all those Arizonans out there worried about voter suppression during the presidential preference vote, rest assured that a local activist with a history of taking on problematic elections is trying to get to the bottom of what happened here. John Brakey, co-founder of AUDIT-AZ (Americans United for Democracy, Integrity,…
The Arizona Senate approved a bill Monday that would make it a state crime to take, harass, kill, or otherwise interfere with a herd of horses that runs free along the Salt River. The bill passed 27-2, with one senator not voting. House Bill 2340 already prevailed in the House…
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said today it won’t take part in background checks on reporters for the state House of Representatives, raising key questions about the controversial process. Without help from law enforcement, House staff would be relegated to searching court sites and Google, same as any member…
For nearly 90 minutes on stage at Phoenix’s Comerica Theater on Sunday night, comedian/commentator Bill Maher ripped into Republicans, religion, Islam, the Catholic Church and male sexual hypocrisy, but he saved special venom for presidential contender Donald Trump and his followers. Calling Trump “that douchebag from Queens,” Maher derided the…
With all the drama surrounding last month’s presidential preference election in Arizona, it can be hard to remember there are other powerful political seats up for grabs in November, but according to the latest political polls and election experts, the Senate race between John McCain and Ann Kirkpatrick is just…
When the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a permanent injunction last week blocking former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s executive order denying driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants with work permits, it started to feel like deja vu. As Congress continues to stall on comprehensive reform, more and more states…
Missed your chance to vent to about the chaos and delays of last month’s Presidential Preference Election in Arizona? Then head out to one of three public hearings in the Phoenix area starting on Monday and give Arizona Secretary of State Michelle Reagan a piece of your mind. She and…
Few Americans speak with such frankness about political correctness, radical Islam, and Donald Trump as comedian Bill Maher. Through his standup act and his long-running HBO talk show Real Time with Bill Maher, the avowed liberal and sacred-cow-killer has zero problem making his lefty pals feel uncomfortable as he challenges…
Arizona must continue allowing undocumented immigrants with work permits and protection from deportation to apply for driver’s licenses, a three-judge U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled. The judges affirmed a permanent injunction blocking former Governor Jan Brewer’s executive order that denied driver’s licenses to undocumented young immigrants who receive…
Arizona’s Republican voters may have overwhelmingly picked Donald Trump during last month’s presidential primary, but a new report says Ted Cruz still has a few tricks up his sleeve. In an article published in the Washington Examiner, members of the Cruz campaign discussed their strategy for packing Arizona’s delegate seats…
The fallout’s still coming down from the bungled March 22 Arizona Presidential Preference Election: Besides the fact that yet another protest took place at Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan’s office, it turns out the feds are investigating — sort of. On Monday, county officials revealed that a letter was…
A long-anticipated field presentation scheduled today by the Arizona Forestry Division for the families of 19 incinerated Granite Mountain Hotshots – during which relatives are to be taken to the site where their loved ones perished — has been sharply criticized for failing to accurately portray what happened. During the…
Capping off two weeks of fury over the March 22 messy presidential preference vote in Maricopa County, a group of frustrated citizens will make one last effort to get their voices heard and maybe stall the certification of the results. Secretary of State Michelle Reagan is expected to sign off on…
