Arizona Capitol Times

07/22/2024

Please join us to celebrate the AZCapTimes Top Companies to Work For in Arizona in 2024 on YouTube on Aug. 20, 2024 from 6-8 p.m. with this link:

Arizona Capitol Times will hold a live virtual event on Aug. 20, 2024, to honor the Top Companies to Work For in Arizona in 2024.

07/22/2024

The Sunday announcement by Joe Biden that he was not running for reelection and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris produced a flurry of reaction on social media from Arizona politicians, elected officials and groups.

07/21/2024

Gallego, currently a member of Congress, continues to keep a hearty lead, raising more in the last quarter than Lake has raised cumulatively over the entire election cycle.

07/21/2024

GUEST OPINION: Historic federal investments are saving, transforming lives

For mayors to be successful – unlike so many of our elected colleagues in state Legislatures or Congress – we are required to set aside our political differences and draw upon the diversity of ideas to help improve our communities. It’s been my experience that these investments are doing just ...

07/20/2024

Do you know your state legislative district?

Find out here:

The district lines adopted by the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission are reflected on this page as they will apply to the 2022 midterm elections (the new districts).

07/19/2024

What the judges decided is that anyone who tries to register to vote using a state form is required at the same time to provide documented proof of citizenship. More to the point, if they do not, the application must now be rejected.

Arizona won't be able to block those who sign up to vote using a federal registration form from casting a ballot in the presidential race, at least not now.

07/19/2024

We appreciate all candidates and voters who joined us for our Meet the Candidate forums.

Watch them all with the links below!

LD 1-8: https://youtube.com/live/Odd9bwIzxVw
LD 9-16: https://youtube.com/live/4ift6Byg4g8
LD 17-24: https://youtube.com/live/aMmPFsZ3L0c
LD 25-30: https://youtube.com/live/5XJyDrVV8sA

Monday, July 15th 2024 - Legislative Districts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8Meet the Candidates LIVE The Arizona Capitol Times hosts“Meet the Candidates” every el...

07/19/2024

While Arizona for Abortion Access raised over $10 million between April and June, It Goes Too Far raised $291,430.

A group that is behind a ballot proposition that would enshrine abortion rights into the state’s Constitution raked in over $10 million dollars in the last quarter, setting them far ahead of their opposition.

07/19/2024

The Republican Legislative District 7 primary is one to watch

Several Republicans have spoken out against a Republican candidate running for the state House of Representatives in the most crowded legislative race after he was accused of lying about his military service record.

07/19/2024

GUEST OPINION: Secure the Border Act could worsen prison problems

What does this do to an already strained Arizona prison system? If the voters pass HCR2060, what then? The answers are not clear, a scary thought for Arizona. ADCRR stated in its memo that “a policy change of this magnitude [should] receive sober and thorough consideration from lawmakers” and ca...

07/19/2024

Here are the Democratic candidates who want to be utility regulators

Three Democrats are hoping to drastically change the makeup of the Arizona Corporation Commission this November and give the regulatory body a Democratic majority.

07/19/2024

The Democratic primary is heating up in CD3

Heavy outside spending flowed into the Democratic primary in the 3rd Congressional District in the past weeks, as candidates Raquel Terán and Yassamin Ansari trade barbs about their financial backing.

07/18/2024

Pima County’s distribution of 135,541 sample ballots with an incorrect Election Day date could undermine voter confidence in elections, election law lawyers said.

07/18/2024

Please join us tonight from 6:00-8:00 pm for the fourth of four Meet the Candidates forums.

Tonight's forum includes state legislative candidates from Districts 25-30

Watch on YouTube:

Thursday, July 18th 2024 - Legislative Districts: 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30Meet the Candidates LIVE The Arizona Capitol Times hosts“Meet the Candidates” every ...

07/18/2024

In a letter to each of the 15 county recorders, America First Legal Foundation, is demanding they each request the Department of Homeland Security to verify the legal status of those on what is known as the "federal-only'' voter registration list.

A group headed by a former Trump adviser is threatening to sue the state's 15 counties if they don't try to check on whether there are non-citizens on their voter registration rolls.

07/17/2024

Please join us tonight from 6:00-8:00 pm for the third of four Meet the Candidates forums.

Tonight's forum includes state legislative candidates from Districts 17-24

Watch on YouTube:

Wednesday, July 17th 2024 - Legislative Districts: 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24Meet the Candidates LIVE The Arizona Capitol Times hosts“Meet the Candidate...

07/16/2024

Please join us tonight from 6:00-8:00 pm for the second of four Meet the Candidates forums.

Tonight's forum includes state legislative candidates from Districts 9-16

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/Odd9bwIzxVw?si=W5kNr4yQsLaVWNq9

07/16/2024

Inside the pressure campaign to force hand-counting of Arizona ballots
Text messages show how Republican lawmakers lobbied county leaders to abandon voting machines.

Republican lawmakers in Arizona privately pressured county leaders across the state to count ballots by hand instead of using machines, according to previously unreported text messages.

07/16/2024

Gov. Katie Hobbs said Monday that people must "stop inflaming this kind of rhetoric'' to avoid future situations that lead to politicians and public officials being threatened and attacked.

07/15/2024

We're all set for tonight's Meet the Candidates forum with candidates for Arizona state legislative Districts 1-8. It begins in a little over an hour at 6:00 pm

Watch on YouTube at:https://youtube.com/watch?v=126KB7EnbTw

07/15/2024

Please join us tonight from 6:00-8:00 pm for the first of four Meet the Candidates forums.

Tonight's forum includes state legislative candidates from Districts 1-8

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=126KB7EnbTw

07/14/2024

The shooting Saturday of former President Trump has provoked an outpouring of support from across the political spectrum in Arizona - as well as claims by some that what happened is a direct result of rhetoric from the Left.

07/14/2024

An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos taken at the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage where the former president was speaking.

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure former President Donald Trump at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, a monumental failure of one of the agency's core duties.

07/14/2024

Trump's campaign said in a statement that the former president was "fine" after a shooting at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

07/13/2024

A judge said there's nothing illegal about putting everything from penalties for entering this country to selling fentanyl into a single take-it-or-leave-it ballot measure.

State lawmakers are entitled to ask voters to approve a border security measure that contains everything from penalties for entering this country to selling fentanyl, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott Minder ruled late Friday. More to the point, he said there's nothing illegal about putting...

07/12/2024

Learn who's running your district at the Meet the Candidates forums next Monday through Thursday from 6-8 pm.

Register here: https://azcapitoltimes.com/event/meet-the-candidates/

07/12/2024

Presidential and senate race outcomes have grown more intertwined. But Kari Lake struggles with courting a more moderate sect of the party and shaky faith in Biden’s candidacy drags down Ruben Gallego.

Presidential wins have increasingly wrung Senate victories for the prevailing political party, but a pollster and consultants predicted the 2024 election could buck the decades-long trend given recent polling

07/12/2024

The start of the new school year is likely to show more than 80,000 students enrolled in the state's Empowerment Scholarship Account program.

After a year of roving projections, final enrollment and funding for the Empowerment Scholarship Account program in the last fiscal year fell far short of earlier predictions by the Department of Education and the governor’s office, but remained close to the mark on projections by the Joint Legisl...

07/12/2024

Republican and Democrat legislative leaders are skeptical that Gov. Katie Hobbs will call a special session for groundwater legislation, despite the governor’s staff saying her office is close to a deal with Republican lawmakers.

07/12/2024

Rep. Justin Heap, who's running for Maricopa County Recorder, was sworn in as a special deputy county attorney by MCA Andrew Thomas in July 2009. Months later, Thomas filed unfounded charges against other county officials that later led to his disbarment.

State Rep. Justin Heap, a Republican candidate for Maricopa County recorder, once worked under disbarred former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas.