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Open Government Committee launches top-two open primary ballot initiative in Arizona
Earlier this month, the Arizona Open Government Committee officially launched its campaign to bring a top-two style open primary system to the Grand Canyon State by ballot initiative in next year’s el...
Water proposal promises to return vacant Arizona farmland to productive use
A recent proposal by the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) to amend its assured water supply rules would provide grandfathered irrigation water rights to farmlands that were retired for dev...
Number of home-schooled children in Arizona likely to rise
As dissatisfaction with public education in Arizona grows and the debate over school choice intensifies, local and national experts are predicting a steady rise in the number of homeschooled students ...
The convoluted, fast-changing world of Arizona coal power
The dirty little secret about power generation is that most states, including Arizona, rely heavily on coal. Sure, Arizona has mandated 15% renewable energy by 2025 but for now, King Coal reigns.Even ...
Is the Arizona border safer than ever?
By most accounts, the Arizona border appears to be safer than ever. Illegal border crossings are down, mainly because the Department of Homeland Security is able to monitor more of the border than eve...
Top Democrats call Tea Party members "terrorists"
Members of the Tea Party movement have been called a lot of nasty things before like: crazy, extremists, teabaggers, and racists, but in the final hours of the debt ceiling debate, just one month befo...
Arizona drowning in negative equity says new report
Research shows that almost half of all Arizona mortgages were "underwater” by the end of the first fiscal quarter of 2011. Only Nevada, at 63 percent, had a higher rate of homes with negative equity, ...
Independent voters continue to swell in Grand Canyon State
Based on the latest report from the office of the Arizona Secretary of State, both major parties continue to lose support as the growth rate of Arizona's Independent voter base further intensifies."Re...
Arizona to have world's largest solar power soon
EnviroMission, an Australian company, plans to build the world's largest solar tower energy plant in the world in Arizona by 2015. When completed, the central tower will be 2,625 feet tall, twice that...
Death of California union icon mourned across nation
Farmworker movement leader Richard Chavez passed away Wednesday at Bakersfield hospital. Richard helped found the United Farmworkers of America with his brother Cesar. According to union spokeswoman M...