By Jordan Williams/Arizona Sonora News Capitol Bureau PHOENIX — Distracted driving or texting and driving? How about both? The Arizona Senate considered and passed two different measures for dealing with distracted drivers. The Senate passed Senate Bill 1165 , which would ban texting while driving, by a bipartisan vote of 20-10 Under the bill introduced…
By Jordan Williams/Arizona Sonora News Capital Bureau PHOENIX — It’s not soy milk, it’s soy beverage. The Arizona House of Representatives advanced House Bill 2604, with an amendment regarding labeling products as milk. Originally, the bill only limited the use of the word “meat” to describe food derived from harvested livestock, and “poultry” as derived…
Story and photos by Kirshana Guy/Arizona Sonora News Tucson’s two largest school districts will receive over $4.5 million to purchase new school buses after a 2016 nationwide settlement with Volkswagen over the sale of their “clean diesel” vehicles. The state of Arizona was allocated $53 million after Volkswagen pleaded guilty to three felony counts of…
By Jordan Williams/Arizona Sonora News Capitol Bureau PHOENIX —Is it really meat? Rep. David Cook (R-08) wants to make sure you know what meat is, by law. But others — including proponents of vegetarian meat-free products that use the word “meat” — say the English noun meat does not belong to the industry. Cook introduced House…
By Jordan Williams/Arizona Sonora News PHOENIX — Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Future Farmers of America attended the Senate Education committee Tuesday to support a Senate bill that would allow youth groups designated as “patriotic” societies under federal law to send representatives to speak during school hours with permission from a school’s principal. The bipartisan…
