Scottsdale planning commissioner resigns amid conflict of interest complaints
By Lorraine Longhi | Arizona Republic Scottsdale residents lobbied complaints against Planning Commissioner Kelsey Pasquel after she made disparaging comments against the Papago Plaza redevelopment in Scottsdale. /Photo: City of Scottsdale Scottsdale Planning Commissioner Kelsey Pasquel resigned Friday amid conflict-of-interest complaints related to her comments about a development in which her new husband is involved. […]
Read More →Contractor blasts Tucson over inclusion on divestment list
Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild. / Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star By Joe Ferguson | Arizona Daily Star Tucson-based West Point Contractors says the city is wrong to include the company on a list of firms it won’t invest in over ties to President Trump’s effort to build a border wall. Tucson-based West Point Contractors […]
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Arizona’s Stanton loses congressional aide to little-known Dreamer provision
By Emily Kopp | Roll Call During the orientation for freshman lawmakers shortly after his election, Stanton learned that Elizabeth Perez, a Dreamer, was forbidden from working for a member of Congress. When Arizona Rep. Greg Stanton was elected last November, he considered it a no-brainer that his campaign’s political director, 28-year-old Elizabeth Perez, would […]
Read More →Can Kate Gallego fix Phoenix?
Kate Gallego / Twitter By Joseph Flaherty | Phoenix New Times Before she was elected mayor of Phoenix, Kate Gallego was responsible for the demise of Lake Buchanan. Buchanan Street, located one block south of Talking Stick Resort Arena, would flood whenever torrential monsoon rains swept into Phoenix. Thanks to the slope of the road […]
Read More →Arizona Supreme Court says Stringer can’t give document to Ethics Committee
Rep. David Stringer in an April 2018 photo from Facebook By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror A judge’s order prohibits Rep. David Stringer from turning over a document sought by the House Ethics Committee in its investigation into sex crime charges he faced in Maryland the early 1980s, according to the Arizona Supreme Court. The […]
Read More →Napolitano questions need for Trump order to enforce campus free speech
Napolitano says we don’t need a government order to say there needs to be free speech on college campuses,/Photo by Luv Junious/Cronkite News By Keerthi Vedantam | Cronkite News Former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said Thursday that a Trump administration policy that threatens to strip funding from colleges in the name of free speech is […]
Read More →Kate Gallego sworn in as Phoenix’s mayor, stresses need for affordable housing
Phoenix City Council members recognize their new mayor, Kate Gallego, at her inauguration Thursday./Twitter By Laura Gómez | Arizona Mirror Phoenix officially has a new mayor. Mayor Kate Gallego took the oath of office Thursday morning at the Orpheum Theatre in the city’s downtown. Mariachi Rubor, an all-women mariachi band, opened the ceremony on the […]
Read More →Seat belt requirement for rear seat dies in Senate committee
By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Capitol Times HB 2460 would require all occupants to be restrained. Calling the measure intrusive, a Senate panel quashed efforts to expand Arizona’s seat belt laws. Rep. Bob Thorpe, R-Flagstaff, was able to get only one member of the Committee on Health and Human Services to […]
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