Arizona is known for a lot of things: the Grand Canyon, SB 1070, soaring summertime temperatures. But robust political polling isn’t necessarily one of them. That said, when stat hound Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight predicts something, folks take note. According to the FiveThirtyEight 2016 General Election Forecast unveiled this week,…
It has been a good few weeks for those who want to see marijuana legalized in Arizona. Days after U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego announced his support for the state’s leading legalization ballot initiative, the group behind the measure, the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, submitted 258,582 petition signatures to the secretary…
About 50 people gathered in a crowded room at Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church on Wednesday morning to hear a 10-member panel of community and government leaders discuss why, in the aftermath of Arizona’s March 22 presidential preference election, the U.S. Congress must restore the Voting Rights Act before the general…
Minutes after Sen. John McCain tweeted that Democrats were putting politics above meaningful action by blocking a $1.1 billion bill that was ostensibly about funding a federal effort to combat the Zika virus, the Twittersphere bit back with a vengeance. Calling McCain a hypocrite, many social-media users pointed out that…
Still frustrated about those long voting lines during Arizona’s March 22 presidential preference vote? Concerned about the state’s response to that and other polling-place fiascos? Worried about similar problems occurring in November’s general election? It seems U.S. Representatives Ann Kirkpatrick and Ruben Gallego are, too. So much so that the…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a draconian Texas abortion law appears to be more than a symbolic win for Arizona’s pro-choice movement. At a Monday afternoon press conference, Jodi Liggett, vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood Arizona, called the ruling a landmark victory that “establishes…
Despite mitigation efforts, a measles outbreak at the Eloy Detention Center in Pinal County keeps getting worse. Over the weekend, the Arizona Department of Health Services announced the 19th confirmed case and expanded the list of potentially contaminated areas in Pinal and Maricopa counties. (See below for full list.) The…
Grab your umbrellas and get excited, people, because the National Weather Service says the Phoenix area could get some monsoon activity as early as Monday or Tuesday. As the Tucson area experiences thunderstorms throughout the weekend, that moisture will continue to make its way north and increase the chances of…
Given the amount of love and attention Donald Trump has heaped on Arizona in the past year, you’d think he’d have the state in the bag come November. Turns out, that just might not be the case. A new poll released this week by OH Strategic Communications and MBQF Consulting…
If there’s one thing Ann Kirkpatrick doesn’t want to talk about, it’s John McCain. On a recent Thursday afternoon, the congresswoman is seated at a long wooden table in a boardroom in Tucson. She’s just finished a round-table discussion with 20 men and women who work with veterans, and managed…
You know what they say: Fourth time’s…a bust? Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix was perhaps most notable for being nothing special. With promises of protesters and biker-gang militias patrolling the parking lot, the afternoon event seemed poised to become yet another headline-grabbing Arizona…
Social Media 101: If you’re a politician and you say something dumb, Twitter will pitilessly mock you for it. Case in point: U.S. Senator John McCain. While answering questions from reporters Thursday morning, McCain literally blamed President Barack Obama for the horrific events at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando…
Arizona’s most liberal Congressman, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, is now endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. Grijalva made headlines this past October when he became the first national politician to endorse Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and since then, the Tucson Congressman has been a vocal supporter and surrogate for his candidate: going…
Inside the air-conditioned confines of the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix earlier today, Arizona Public Service, was hosting the second annual Residential Demand Charges for Utilities Summit. Outside, about 50 protesters braved the heat to speak out against a pending proposal by the state’s largest utility to change the way it bills…
At least 100 women in the largest unit at Perryville women’s prison in Goodyear are not being properly treated for “unexplained and unresolved rashes and skin conditions” that are leaving them with “open oozing sores on their legs, arms, and torsos,” according to a May 31 letter from the nonprofit advocacy group Prison…
You know things are heating up in Arizona when a) the mercury edges toward 120 degrees, or b) politicians start squawking about chemtrails. Try c) both of the above. Last month, Senator John McCain’s campaign released a series of attack ads linking his main GOP primary rival, physician and former…
It was probably only a matter of time before someone popped Brother Dean Saxton, Arizona’s infamous “slut-shaming preacher,” upside the head. For 19-year-old Tabitha Brubaker, that time appears to have come on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 26, when she allegedly cracked a baseball bat into the side of Saxton’s…
Just north of the Arizona border in San Juan County, Utah, copies of phony documents have been turning up at gas stations and post offices, aimed at local Native American tribes. The bogus handouts are filled with false information related to an actual pending proposal to establish a 1.9-million-acre national monument around…
A coalition of Arizona-based environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit this week against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for issuing a permit for a massive development project near the city of Benson that the groups say will devastate the San Pedro River…
Seven Arizona lawmakers are asking the attorneys general of Arizona and Nevada to file a civil-rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice over the handling of the shooting death of 54-year-old Arizona resident Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, one of the men who occupied a wildlife refuge in Oregon earlier this…
Some readers of the Arizona Capitol Times are calling a recent article about the Democratic primary race (subscription required) in Tempe’s Legislative District 26 sexist, if not outright misogynistic, for the way it repeatedly refers to the one of the candidates as the girlfriend of one of the other candidates. The story,…
Half Life: America’s Last Uranium Mill, a new short film from the Grand Canyon Trust, highlights how the White Mesa Uranium Mill in Utah could contaminate the drinking water supply for much of southeastern Utah and northern Arizona. The White Mesa mill is a part of the uranium mining and…
