Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Phoenix Kate Gallego joined the Governor’s new Director of Resiliency, Maren Mahoney, and other specialists in clean energy at an event sponsored by the Arizona Technology Council that touted the federal government investments in sustainability programs through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. These pieces of legislation have … Read more
With Democratic House Leader Andres Cano leaving to pursue graduate opportunities at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the party caucus in the Arizona Lower Chamber, after nine hours and 11 rounds of voting, has chosen a new leadership team for the remainder of this legislative session. The new Democratic House Leader … Read more
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, and Tucson Mayor Regina Romero celebrated and participated in events commemorating Juneteenth, the day declaring that all slaves should be freed in the United States following the end of the American Civil War. Governor Hobbs participated in Juneteenth events in Phoenix (alongside Mayor Gallego) and Scottsdale. In … Read more
Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature passed their version of the Prop 400 Extension on road and transportation infrastructure projects for Maricopa County on June 13, 2023. Unfortunately, their idea of good road and transportation projects for infrastructure, according to reporting from AZ Central and other sources over the last several days, did not include … Read more
When giving her State of the City Address, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to include extreme heat in its declared disasters list. In a letter to FEMA, Mayor Gallego, according to an official press release: wrote: “Heat causes more deaths each year than most other natural hazards combined, … Read more