Despite a plea from his biggest endorser for a delay, Rodney Glassman said he would move ahead with his campaign for Democratic Party chairman, and accused Andrei Cherny and incumbent Chairman Don Bivens of making “backroom deals” to keep him from winning the race.
Declaring that her plan to drastically cut funding for health coverage is Arizona’s “only option” to stabilize its spending budget, Gov. Jan Brewer promptly on Friday signed a bill that gives her the authority to ask the federal government’s permission to implement her proposal.
Former U.S. Rep. Jay Rhodes, who held the same seat in Arizona’s Very first Congressional District that his father did prior to him, died in a Washington, D.C., hospital Thursday from complications following an automobile accident last year. He was 67.
Gabrielle Giffords on Thursday felt the sunshine on her face for the very first time since she was shot, as doctors prepared her to leave behind the Arizona hospital where she dazzled them with her rapid recovery.
A state screening panel holds an emergency meeting Friday to respond to an Arizona Supreme Court ruling on nominations for appointments to the state redistricting commission.
History is a fickle mistress, so no one today can say with certainty what the legacy of the Arizona Legislature’s 2010 session will be.
“It will be a combination of cost-cutting, just ruthless cost cutting, not only going to the bone but beyond the bone.” — Board of Regents Chairman Anne Mariucci on how the universities will cope with a proposed $170 million budget cut.
Even though Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission members have yet to be chosen, some groups already are preparing for the inevitable tug-of-maps to come in the rearranging of Arizona’s congressional and legislative districts.
The shrill sound of too a lot of what passes for current national political discussion is a wake-up call to all Americans that the harshness of our political rhetoric has reached potentially harmful levels.
Weary of scrounging for solutions to a relentless financial mess, some Arizona lawmakers have changed from criticizing budget gimmicks to shrugging and accepting most likely the most blatant 1 of all.