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...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Legislature has approved an anti-abortion bill that includes generally banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The House's vote of 37-22 on Tuesday sends the bill to Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican who has signed...

In the wake of the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson, the Arizona state legislature has passed emergency legislation to prevent the Westboro Baptist Church from picketing victims' funerals, including that of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green. The church's...

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...

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......

PHOENIX (AP) — A metropolitan Phoenix school district has launched an inquiry into a substitute teacher who wrote a letter that portrayed Hispanic students in a harsh light and was read aloud last week at the Arizona Legislature during a debate on...

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...

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...