PHOENIX — When the Arizona National Guard is called out of the state, who remains to defend the state from threats foreign and domestic? That duty falls to the militia of the state of Arizona, known the Arizona State Guard. The State Guard has never actually been called and a situation where they would…
PHOENIX — Gov.Doug Ducey, true to his pledge, now has a plan he hopes will stop the preponderance of opioids and reduce addiction rates. How? By giving bad doctors a slap on the wrist and locking up addicts. Ducey called for an end to Arizona’s opioid epidemic in his 2018 State of the State address, promising…
PHOENIX — If your tax evasion scheme involved bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, the Arizona State Legislature would like to have a word with you. That’s because a Senate bill would make everyone’s favorite internet money subject to capital gains taxes at the state level. This is the second week of the session, and the Legislature…
PHOENIX — The Arizona State Legislature started this week with Gov. Doug Ducey’s State of the State address, followed by the reading of over 100 bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and then finally the unveiling of the executive budget for fiscal year 2019. Doug Says No to Drugs and Yes to…
Once a month, a Tucson library room fills with people who are very, very, very afraid. Of their neighbors. Their collective fear doesn’t have a specific face, but has a specific faith. Islam, and the radical elements allegedly “infiltrating” America, constitute an existential threat to the (mostly elderly) men and women who meet in this…
