Majority Leader Rep. Warren Petersen’s (R-Gilbert) build your own border wall bill (HB2084) moved quickly through the process in the Arizona House. It was assigned to the Federal Relations and Rules Committees on the first day of the 2020 session. It passed out of Rep. Mark Finchem’s (R- Oro Valley) federalism committee last week, out … Read more
Arizona Legislative District 15, an area that includes all or parts of Peoria, Phoenix, Cave Creek, Paradise Valley, and Deer Valley, will be a district to pay attention to in 2020. Nancy Barto and Heather Carter are fighting it out for the Republican Senate Nomination. As of January 10, 2020, five Republicans are competing for … Read more
The minimum wage in Arizona is $12 per hour. Arizona prisoners do a variety of jobs from manual labor to answering phones for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), for which they are paid anywhere between 10 cents to $3 per hour. The ADOT Service Arizona call center workers are the highest paid prisoners, but … Read more
The Arizona GOP is turning to its old bag of tricks again: put competing measures on the ballot to create ballot confusion and hope that exasperated voters will just vote “no” on both measures out of frustration. Howard Fischer reports, Senate panel OKs ballot proposal to hike special sales tax for education funding: State lawmakers … Read more
Back in October, a Federal Judge ruled Prop. 123 illegal, again. “The ruling has no immediate effect on school funding. It allows the state to continue to draw more than $200 million a year out of the trust to fund education through 2025.” Lawless Republicans never take “No” for an answer. They just keep working … Read more