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WEEKEND NEWS & VIEWS
Feb. 24-25, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Could Fuel Robust Demand for Power.
Here Are 2 Under-the-Radar Ways to Cash In on AI’s Energy Needs
Let dental hygienst give you Botox? What are lawmakers thinking?
Letter to the editor: Senate Bill 1269 puts patients at risk because it allows the wrong medical personnel to administer fillers and Botox.
Spokesman: Hobbs won’t sign bill allowing cops to arrest illegal border crossers
Governor Katie Hobbs’ press aide, Christian Slater, stated that she considers SB1231 unconstitutional, ineffective for border security, and potentially harmful to Arizona’s businesses and jobs.
RELATED: Migrants Move to California and Arizona as Texas Beefs up Security
Pay raises for Gov. Katie Hobbs, other Arizona lawmakers? A new bill would make it happen
Arizona’s lawmakers are working on pay increases for themselves and other state elected officers after not seeing a raise since the 1990s.
AZ’s Senate is paying state GOP chair $15K per month. Why some election watchers are worried
A nonprofit watchdog group says the Arizona Senate is paying the new chair of the Republican Party of Arizona too much for her job advising lawmakers about election policy.
Rachel Mitchell spins political gold in her tiff with New York attorney Alvin Bragg
This may come as no surprise, but the savviest politician is in the state right now certainly is not Kari Lake, who is digging herself into an ever-deeper hole with the McCain wing of her party.
Ask voters about immigration and nondiscrimination, Speaker Toma. I dare you
Opinion: Since Republican lawmakers believe in having voters decide immigration policy, why not also let them have their say on nondiscrimination?
Native voters still face serious barriers to voting in Arizona, leaders tell lawmakers
Mikah Carlos, a council member for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, said in 2016 she attempted to vote using her tribal identification card, but was turned away by a poll worker telling her it wasn’t permitted.
SNL covers Trump win in SC primary
“Saturday Night Live” mocked a group of Republican senators for endorsing former President Donald Trump, even after he criticized those GOP lawmakers.
Yellow Sheet
MURDER HE WROTE: Nguyen’s bill that would charge accused fentanyl dealers with murder if the drug caused a person’s death failed on the floor 27-32 with some Republicans still having Constitutional concerns over the bill. “This bill states that someone can be guilty of murder without ever having killed somebody or having the intent to kill them,” Kolodin said. “When we go that far, we upset the fundamental notions of justice and not just justice, but the Constitution, because due process requires that every element of a crime be proven beyond reasonable doubt. This is the third time Nguyen has introduced the bill and the first time it’s made it to the House floor. Nguyen said he asked leadership to put H2820 (drug trafficking homicide; sentencing) up for the vote despite knowing he didn’t have enough to pass because he wanted to show victims’ and their families that he’s trying to do something for them.
