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State prison panel tells Hobbs they need time, staff, …

12/26/2023
PHOENIX — Members of a special panel appointed by Gov. Katie Hobbs to look at the state prison system are telling her they can’t do the job she asked them to do: provide actual — and meaningful — oversight of the $1.1 billion operation where about 35,000 people are locked up.

Proposal would require ever-increasing police funding

2/14/2022
PHOENIX — A House panel voted Monday to ask voters to bar cities from cutting funding for police and sheriffs or risk losing state aid. Rep. Walt Blackman, R-Snowflake, said the move is …

Senate committee approves election changes

1/26/2022
PHOENIX — With complaints and suggestions that there was fraud in 2020, state lawmakers began the process Monday of making major and minor alterations in state election laws. On party line …

Lawmakers want more local control for short-term …

1/11/2022
PHOENIX — Some Republican lawmakers want to revisit — and repeal — the 2016 measure that stripped local governments of their ability to regulate short-term and vacation …