By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — “Never forget” will not only be enshrined in American vernacular but also Arizona curriculum, if a new proposal establishing 9/11 Education Day approved this week passes into law. Public school teachers will be directed to craft lesson plans about the terrorist attacks every September 11, or…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Republicans hope to replace outside ballot drop boxes with “smart” boxes that don’t yet exist and will cost 500% more than the ones that Arizona counties already use, based on the unfounded claim that ballot-box stuffing helped steal the election from former President Trump. While current drop boxes…
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…
