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Capitol
Lawmakers kept Rio Nuevo alive but added an 80% sales tax project rule. The next nine years should be a stress test: track net new tax receipts, not just multipliers, before anyone talks about expanding the district.
Courts
A national exodus of legislative leaders now includes Arizona's Senate president running for attorney general, while DHS asks states to deepen immigration cooperation. Both choices carry real courtroom consequences for how the state writes, defends, and enforces its laws.
Courts
A reported federal contract lapse left more than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children without lawyers in deportation proceedings. The administration's authority is clear. The remedy is administrative. The costs and outcomes are undisclosed.
Elections
House Judiciary Chair Quang Nguyen says he will keep clergy confessions off limits to mandatory reporting bills, putting the next move in voters' hands while a high-profile Facebook flub shows how easily Arizona's campaign conversation can get scrambled.
Capitol
The senator drawing national conservative criticism is a self-described pro-life Democrat who was endorsed by Arizona Right to Life, crossed her party on multiple abortion votes, and endorsed Doug Ducey for governor. The record complicates the caricature in both directions.
Capitol
The Arizona Supreme Court will decide whether Proposition 145 returns to the November ballot after a trial judge found it violated the Separate Amendment Rule, a ruling that could determine if voters see two dueling ESA measures this fall.
Elections
Andy Biggs' choice of former Sen. Sine Kerr as Arizona's first-ever lieutenant governor running mate is more than symbolism. Under Prop 131, the role comes with real management power, and Kerr's water-heavy record and hot-button votes set clear stakes for both governance and the
Capitol
Billions for rural health are on the table. Miss August and October deadlines, and Arizona's share can be clawed back. North Dakota is sprinting. Is Arizona even stretching? Show the plan now.
Elections
Closed primaries, county ballots, and party rules decide who reaches November. Here is the machinery without the slogans.
Elections
As Gov. Katie Hobbs seeks four more years, a State 48 News analysis flags management, ethics and affordability trouble spots while a Capitol Times op-ed urges a sober relook at 911 funding. The next term will turn on execution in a divided government that still has to deliver.
Elections
Former Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, now at ASU's Mechanics of Democracy Lab, says Arizona must prove election controls with public evidence, keep administration in state hands, and measure whether new trust-building steps like ID-verified early ballots actually work.
Culture
As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra wrap on NAU's North Quad this weekend. The altitude remains the festival's best production designer.
Capitol
After Rep. Ralph Heap ousted Nick Myers in the GOP primary for Arizona's utility regulator, Myers blasted Turning Point Action and urged Republicans to "single-shot" Kevin Thompson, a public rift with pocketbook stakes as Democrats eye an opening.
Local
Judge Greg Como ruled Prop. 143 violates Arizona's Separate Amendment Rule and, as written, would have barred cities and counties from negotiating with any labor organization. Supporters can appeal; otherwise it's off the November ballot.
Elections
Arizona's elections run on mail ballots and local competence, not nationwide mandates or panic policies. Fund the counters, verify with guardrails, publish the results, and let Arizona run Arizona.
Elections
Maricopa hit 99% counted in 27 hours after the primary, a clear throughput gain tied to an ID-present option that kept 23,000 early ballots out of the post-election queue. Now the county owes taxpayers the ledger: costs, hours, and unit results. The same rigor should guide the $-
Elections
Most incumbents advanced, but progressives ousted Democratic Reps. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton and Lydia Hernandez in safe blue districts, trading a veteran budget negotiator for new left-flank voices. A new optional ballot drop-off with ID drew more than 6,000 users in Pima, hintng
Courts
As new federal asylum rules take effect and Congress stalls on TPS, Arizona's attorney general race will decide which multistate coalitions the state joins and what remedies it seeks in court.
Capitol
Kaylie Ray came to a Senate Education Committee hearing to describe forfeiting a match. Sen. Catherine Miranda opened her response by assessing Ray's build, then questioned her competitiveness. The exchange went national within a day, and Miranda's office has never commented.
Elections
Hobbs declined a head-to-head with Biggs, who now says he will attend an Oct. 6 Clean Elections debate. With abortion polling and DHS's election-season assurance on ICE in the background, Arizona voters are being asked to accept more message control and fewer unscripted tests.
Border
A federal judge blocked the bid to cut immigration appeals to 10 days, but faster-case directives still shape daily life in Eloy's courtrooms as attorneys warn of burnout and due-process gaps. Arizona's governor's race adds a rural voice with Andy Biggs tapping Buckeye dairywoman
Courts
Arizona's high court defers to churches on what counts as a "confession," a federal judge keeps Medicaid work rules on track for January, and a D.C. vandalism case tests grand-jury secrecy against a defendant's damages challenge.
Elections
Biggs' pick of Sine Kerr signals a rural-water focus while Arizona stares at a potential $208 million SNAP cost share and a data-center subsidy hangover. The next administration's math on error rates, utility cost shifts, and WIFA outcomes will decide who pays.
Courts
ASU reporters were told in three Arizona immigration courts that public attendance requires a judge's approval, clashing with federal guidance. Lawsuits in D.C. and New York now test how far courts can go in closing the doors.
