President Joe Biden’s halting answers, weak voice and often unfocused answers during Thursday’s debate left Arizona Democrats notably silent immediately afterward. It deepened the immediate sense that Biden has left Democrats with an urgent need to reconsider putting the 81-year-old on the ballot against former President Donald Trump. In Arizona, a critical battleground state, none […]
We are on the brink of destroying our judicial system in Arizona. Partisan actors want to punish judges who have ruled contrary to their politics. They see the judiciary as a second legislature, in which every judge must toe a political line — theirs. But the judiciary is not a second legislature. It is a […]
Come November, Arizonans will see a ballot with pivotal races at all levels of government. The results of these contests will determine the direction of the country, state and local governments for years to come. But first, voters must determine which candidates will make it to the general election — and which campaigns will be […]
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs on Tuesday signed into law a bipartisan state spending plan that trims state agencies and makes other moves to reconcile a budget deficit over two years. “Nobody got everything they wanted, but this bipartisan, balanced budget puts our state on solid financial ground,” Hobbs said in a statement. The budget was […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers Boris Epshteyn and Jenna Ellis and former U.S. Senate candidate James Lamon have pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges in a case about trying to overturn former President Donald Trump’s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden. The hearing Tuesday in a Phoenix courtroom marked the last of 18 arraignments in […]
PHOENIX – The Valley is heating up again, and after seeing the first week of triple digits, residents are feeling the impact, and so are their air conditioning units. Repair companies are gearing up for a long summer ahead, but they can only do so much about the rising costs of parts – often the […]
FILE – White House former chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in Washington. Meadows appeared by videoconference, Friday, June 7, 2024, in Phoenix, pleading not guilty to nine felony charges stemming from their roles in an effort to overturn Trump’s election loss in Arizona to […]
Six of the fake electors indicted in Arizona are turning to fundraising appeals to help finance their legal defense. Michael and Kelli Ward are the only Arizonans seeking financial support so far. The other four indicted individuals are continuing campaigns they apparently started due to their involvement in other cases related to the 2020 presidential […]
DC Ranch is the priciest neighborhood in Scottsdale, Arizona, with an average home price of $3.3 million. The sprawling 4,400-acre community includes four villages of mansions, condos, and businesses. I got an exclusive tour of the neighborhood and thought it felt like a small town. The most expensive neighborhood in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a sprawling, […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Attorney John Eastman pleaded not guilty on Friday to conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges for his role in the effort to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in Arizona to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Eastman, who devised a strategy to try to persuade Congress not to certify the election, is the first […]
President Biden with union members after touring Intel’s Ocotillo campus in Chandler, Ariz., in March. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images) Aaron McDonald thinks back to when he came to Maricopa County nearly 20 years ago as a young ironworker hoping to get work building a new football stadium. Driving in from Wyoming for the first […]
We knew from the beginning that imposing a universal voucher program on Arizona taxpayers was a Robin-Hood-in-reverse scam, robbing money from the poor to give to the rich. Knowing that didn’t matter to the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature and then-Gov. Doug Ducey, who signed the atrocity into law. Then, we learned that the con could be […]