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Capitol
The Senate's stopgap keeps the lights on but lets $38.6 billion a year in extra transportation cash expire Oct. 1.
Elections
Hobbs' reported pick of John Giles as running mate sells bipartisanship, but voter records show he left the GOP in May. With a powerful new office on the line, Hobbs owes voters specifics on the lieutenant governor's actual job.
Elections
Bob Littlefield quits the Scottsdale council race after the canvass, narrowing November to three candidates for two seats and throwing 22,091 votes into play.
Capitol
Mayes promises a pre-election finish to the Hobbs pay-to-play probe as the governor avoids committing to an interview, Sunshine's rates surge, and disclosure gets vetoed twice.
Elections
Hobbs preemptively rejects Clean Elections debates while organizers are still finalizing invitations, setting up an official forum that may proceed without the incumbent as Andy Biggs says he'll show up.
Culture
Phoenix Art Museum stacks CATVIDEOFEST and Kids Day on August 8 and 9. The high-low mix is deliberate: get people in the door, then keep them in the galleries.
Elections
Nine GOP-led states will vote on changing initiative rules this fall. Missouri voters already rejected a district-by-district veto by 80 percent.
Elections
Axios-sourced voter records, reported by Arizona Globe, show John Giles left the GOP in May and later pulled a Democratic primary ballot. Hobbs' bipartisan branding looks more like theater than persuasion.
Local
HB 2873 started as a bidding-procedures bill, was gutted in a Senate committee, and came back as a retroactive tool to void municipal referendum petitions. The House defeated it 27 to 24 on June 11. Hours later four members reversed their votes, Junelle Cavero among them, and it passed 31 to 27.
Courts
The Citizens Clean Elections Commission voted 4-0 to keep Ralph Heap in the public-financing program. His Corporation Commission funding remains withheld pending a sworn finance affidavit, and a sign-spending complaint is still pending.
Courts
HHS plans a $150 million award for legal services to unaccompanied minors, raising procurement and performance questions as a small Texas firm with no immigration specialty is tapped, per a pre-publication notice described by the Arizona Mirror.
Elections
John Giles dropped his Republican registration in May. Calling him a bipartisan bridge asks voters to ignore the paperwork.
Courts
Two courts blocked the Trump team's bid to cancel climate grants. The lesson for Arizona: if you want to change policy, use Congress, not scissors. Courts protect reliance, not headlines.
Elections
Gov. Katie Hobbs says she will not debate, even as Arizona's official debate organizers are still finalizing invitations and format. That choice could leave voters without a shared-stage test while campaigns trade claims and op-eds fill the gap.
Elections
Junelle Cavero was appointed to the Arizona House in April 2024 and sworn in the next morning. Secretary of State records at the time showed she owed $11,750 in late fees from a state Senate campaign she had lost two years earlier. The arithmetic points to roughly sixteen months of unfiled reports.
Capitol
A U.S. Senate stopgap that leaves expiring transportation dollars unrenewed collides with Arizona's lieutenant governor sweepstakes, testing the state's appetite for governing partners over campaign vibes.
Elections
Hobbs is reportedly tapping former Mesa mayor John Giles for a cross-party ticket in Arizona's first election for lieutenant governor. The new office comes with real responsibilities, and voters are choosing not just politics but who will run the machinery of state.
Elections
Arizona's ballot language must be neutral. On Prop 144, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes's explainer reads like a nudge. Judge Adele Ponce should order a text-faithful rewrite and let voters decide the merits.
Elections
A reported party-line vote advancing Todd Blanche's nomination and his private assurances to restrict abortion drug access put Arizona on notice. Before the Senate votes, the public deserves the memo, not the slogan.
Capitol
Sen. Catherine Miranda has said nothing publicly about the hearing exchange that made her nationally known. The bill she opposed cleared the Senate anyway. Declining to speak was a strategy, and it is worth examining what it purchased.
Courts
Hobbs administration asks a federal judge to pause a court-ordered receivership of Arizona's prison healthcare, arguing the court jumped to a last-resort remedy too soon. Whatever the venue, Arizonans need time-bound, verifiable fixes and public metrics.
Local
A Mirror column says Andy Biggs' nod to Sine Kerr's family heritage will not win Latino voters. In Arizona neighborhoods, practical, documentable fixes beat biography every time.
Culture
The Way We Came opens August 26 with more than 70 works from a nearly 200-piece gift. The museum is treating it as more than a summer exhibition. It is a collection reset.
Border
AG Kris Mayes won't commit to defending Prop. 314 as lawsuits advance, leaving police and border communities waiting on funding, training, and clear rules even as a federal judge declined to block the voter-approved law.
