Making life affordable for Arizonans again, along with quality and accessible health care. That was the purpose of Arizona Legislative District 21 Representative Consuelo Hernandez’s bill (HB2958), which passed the House Health and Human Services Committee on February 9. If it passes the whole State Legislature and is signed by Governor Katie Hobbs, this measure … Read more
A graph is worth a thousand words. 2025 saw a profound spike in the number of reported measles cases in Arizona, to well over 200. Consider that from 1992 to 2024, the number of reported cases per year never came close to 50. Unfortunately, the recent measles outbreak, caused in large part by the vaccine … Read more
This week, Senator Ruben Gallego continued adding to his menu of policy proposals to help expand the Middle Class in the country. After introducing plans to increase access to affordable energy and housing, the Senator unveiled The Strong Start Act, which builds on one of the few positive policy components of Trump’s Big Billionaires First … Read more
Arizona Legislative Republicans are back at it at the State Capitol, playing the same old MAGA-White Nationalist-Religious Extremist broken records of voting suppression and taking away reproductive freedom, sponsoring measures designed to take people’s rights away in both areas. In both chambers, Arizona Republicans want to circumvent a probable Gubernatorial veto by sending a ballot … Read more
2026 is shaping up to be another year where just a few seats will determine which political party will control the Arizona State Legislature in 2027. Arizona Legislative District 13 in Chandler in the East Valley of Maricopa County is one of them. In this campaign, human and voting rights legal advocate Kristie O’Brien is … Read more