Almost 14,000 City of Tucson residents and others responded to the City of Tucson’s survey about the proposed Reid Park Zoo expansion. Here’s the results: https://www.opentownhall.com/portals/310/Issue_10562/survey_responses?scope=all On May 4 the Tucson Mayor & City Council will be discussing these survey results and hopefully will make a decision as to how to proceed. The Reid Park … Read more
Republicans always talk about how government should stay out of people’s lives except in cases when it comes to a woman’s right to choose. SB1457, the bill that could make it a crime for women to have abortions if their child has a genetic abnormality has been signed into law by Doug Ducey today (April … Read more
For many years, the Arizona Legislature has had a 100 day target for the length of each session. April 20, 2021 was day 100 for this session. When more than 1000 bills are proposed every year and more than 300 are usually signed into law in non-pandemic years, the Legislature doesn’t generally finish in 100 … Read more
Often when the House Democrats go into caucus, we were greeted with a HUGE list of bills to consider that morning. Such was the case a few weeks ago when the caucus agenda was several pages long, including two pages of proposals attacking your rights. Since the staff didn’t receive the caucus agenda until about … Read more
Republicans have spent weeks and employed multiple levels of parliamentary procedures to ram Senator Cathi Herrod’s … er … Senator Nancy Barto’s fetal personhood bill through both houses … twice. SB1457 died in the Senate earlier in April, but the Republicans brought the zombie bill back to life for a do-over. SB1457 inserts BIG government … Read more