By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — House Republicans approved severe limits on states of emergency, in a clear move against proclamations made during the pandemic. Arizona has been in a state of emergency because of COVID-19 since March of 2020, which has allowed Gov. Doug Ducey to mobilize efforts to support vaccination and…
By Jeremy Duda and Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — The Arizona Senate voted to raise the aggregate expenditure limit for K-12 schools, heading off a school funding crisis and allowing schools to use nearly nearly $1.2 billion that would have otherwise gone to waste. With a week to go before a March…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Early voters in Arizona would be barred from putting their ballots in mailboxes and would instead be required to put them in ballot drop boxes that would take a picture of every voter if under a Republican proposal that won preliminary approval last week. Under the…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled legislature have made restricting abortion a priority this year, and are likely to emulate a Mississippi law that the U.S. Supreme Court is widely expected to uphold rather than a far more restrictive law in Texas. Several legislative measures have been introduced…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Voting would return to 19th Century methods — with their glacial pace and flawed accuracy -– and reduce voter access under legislation Republicans approved in a legislative committee that would ban machines from counting votes, critics said. The proposal is rooted in the Big Lie, a…
