Arizona Legislature

It's more than a little ironic that the same Arizona Legislature that spearheaded a ruthless, racially charged campaign against illegal immigrants also banned K-12 ethnic studies classes on the grounds that they promote hatred and division. Who knew...

When did public workers become the enemy of the state? I’m just wondering because it seems state after state is taking aim at public employees — be they firefighters, police officers, nurses, teachers along with city, county and state workers....

The names Bill Badger, Patricia Maisch and Roger Salzgeber probably don't ring a bell with most people and after a year, their names have faded with time even out here in southern Arizona. But those three stopped a deadly shooting rampage from turning...

Mexican food and beer. That's what retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor suggests might pull this fractured nation back together again. Those were the tools she used to reach consensus in the 1970s when she was a leader in the Arizona...

Wedge issues are the rhetorical enablers of the bitterly partisan politics that have disfigured our national conversation in recent years. They're the controversial questions on which significant numbers of voters hold views that admit no compromise or...

By Megan Crepeau Any female Arizonans reading out there? If so - my best wishes to you! According to a bill that just passed the Arizona House, you're pregnant! [The bill] states that abortion would be banned 20 weeks into......

Now, this is just getting silly. In Arizona, "tea partyers" have been protesting a town trash collection plan that would streamline trash collection and could cost less money. The town of Fountain Hills, population maybe 30,000, has two tea party......

Arizona struck a major blow Thursday for Constitution lovers everywhere by making it nearly impossible for uncircumcised atheist Hawaiians born outside a hospital to run for president. The Arizona Republic reports: The Arizona Legislature has become the...

I got to know “Gabby� – Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords – when I led a delegation to Vietnam on behalf of the United States Department of State in 2001. Of the six people in the delegation, she was most outgoing and engaging. As a...

Several dozen protesters waving signs and American flags demonstrated outside Staples Center before Monday’s Lakers-Phoenix Suns game, calling on Lakers coach Phil Jackson to denounce Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration law. Among those at Mondayâ€...

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