Politics & Government

As expected.

It’s election day, baby.

“Tim and I came up with this idea, boy, three or four years ago,” Chuck Warren, a conservative political consultant, said of their initiative to put pension reform on the Phoenix ballot.

The crosswalk raises questions about safe street and lighting design as Phoenix confronts the highest pedestrian fatality rate in large U.S. cities.

Chief Justice Scott Bales’ resignation closely follows the departure of Justice John Pelander, who resigned from the court on March 1.

From behind the scenes, the legislator has worked on a bill to weaken Arizona’s system of disclosing the names of officers on the so-called Brady list.

Even after voters and two governors rejected previous measures, Representative Mark Finchem is trying again.

Worst city in the Valley? “That’s a loaded question. But everyone knows it’s Apache Junction.”

“I know a lot of people who don’t like lemonade,” Representative Athena Salman, a Democrat from Tempe, said on the House floor. “So, I vote no.”

“Dearest friends and people of Arizona, it seems we are prepared to give up our liberty, the very sovereignty of our body, because of measles.”

“This is bullshit,” Jennifer Harrison complains in a video, later claiming she was banned because of her Make America Great Again hat.

“There is an incredible amount of power vested in committee chairs, and sometimes they choose to wield it in these ways.”

APS is still embroiled in the legal battle that ensued the last time a commissioner tried to force them to disclose political donations

Lydia Hernandez’s visit to a Texas education association conference brought controversy and a two-year ban from the group’s events.

“The idea that you drop a bill and never want it to be heard is not lawmaking,” Rep. John Allen said. “It’s politics.”

The bill’s sponsor said she has a problem “when things like socialism and other ideologies are impressed upon the children outside of the curriculum.”

“My floor statement was a friendly counterpoint to Representative Salman’s hijacking of the prayer,” Representative John Kavanagh said.

“I’m not singling out religion and trying to attack religion,” Arizona State Senator Juan Mendez said in response.

“Be foolish not to reach out to folks who had been successful, who had applied in the past, to see how they had answered some of the questions.”

Grant Woods said that if he ran for the Senate seat, he could expect to face “a big-time, expensive, competitive primary.”

The incident was consistent with others, “in which parents of children whose skin color or ethnicity differs from theirs fell under suspicion.”