Elections
Latinos are projected to account for 14.7%, or 36.2 million, of all eligible voter. This has led to a surge of disinformation ahead of the November election.
Apr. 8, 2024
Arizona’s minimum wage is currently $14.35. State law allows businesses to pay tipped workers $3 less than that, with the expectation that tips will make up the difference. Two initiatives headed toward the November ballot aim to either strike that rule, or strengthen it.
Apr. 5, 2024
Gov. Katie Hobbs has appointed a new member to the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission, marking the first appointment to the commission in seven years.
Apr. 5, 2024
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes wants a judge to award over $36,000 in sanctions against former Republican Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh for filing a failed lawsuit challenging the results of the 2022 election.
Apr. 5, 2024
The group No Labels will not nominate a third-party presidential candidate this year. The organization had emerged earlier this year as a potentially well-funded force in the election. However, No Labels said Thursday that finding the right candidates proved difficult.
Apr. 5, 2024
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is calling attention to Democrats’ efforts to expand abortion rights in Arizona. Whitmer spoke at a campaign event for President Joe Biden on Wednesday at a downtown Phoenix coffee shop.
Apr. 3, 2024
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors met Wednesday afternoon to appoint one of three applicants to fill the vacant state House seat for Legislative District 8.
Apr. 3, 2024
At a hearing Wednesday, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors waived attorney-client privilege to allow County Attorney Kent Volkmer to publicly refute allegations made against himself and County Recorder Dana Lewis.
Apr. 3, 2024
Minimum wage is currently $14.35, but employers can pay tipped staff $3 below that. Republican state Rep. Justin Wilmeth sponsored the legislation, saying restaurants often operate on very small profit margins.
Apr. 3, 2024
Preliminary election results are in for the boards and councils of the Salt River Project, the largest power and water provider to the Phoenix area.
Apr. 3, 2024
Cochise County’s Elections Director Tim Mattix announced his resignation Tuesday, according to a news release from the county. He was appointed to head elections in the county in October of last year.
Apr. 3, 2024
A Maricopa County official is taking steps to try to ensure that the next lawmakers appointed by the county to the Arizona Legislature won’t resign in scandal. His method takes a bit of a dig at current lawmakers.
Apr. 2, 2024
The Voter Reference Foundation's VoteRef.com database so far includes information from 32 states and the District of Columbia. It is run by Gina Swoboda, an organizer of Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and chair of the Arizona Republican Party.
Apr. 2, 2024
Arizona voters could have the chance to decide a handful of citizen initiatives on November’s ballot. But in order to make it to the ballot, all of those campaigns need to collect hundreds of thousands of signatures from residents.
→ Group: 500,000 have signed petition for abortion rights measure
→ Group: 500,000 have signed petition for abortion rights measure
Apr. 2, 2024
We begin with a look at the ground game for each major presidential candidate in Arizona. And, at least for the Trump campaign, it’s looking a little thin — a lot thinner than it did four years ago when he ran and lost here by just 10,000 votes.
Apr. 2, 2024
A Pinal County supervisor is threatening to sue the county’s top election official for defamation. Republican Supervisor Kevin Cavanaugh filed a notice of claim on March 21 against Pinal County Recorder Dana Lewis.
Apr. 1, 2024
Candidates running for Salt River Project’s boards and councils on a clean energy platform have accused the organization’s CEO of trying to influence the election that will pick the people who oversee SRP — and hire its top executives.
→ More Arizona politics news
→ More Arizona politics news
Apr. 1, 2024
A judge has tossed the latest bid by Abe Hamadeh and others to decertify the results of the 2022 election, order it rerun in Maricopa County and declare that Kris Mayes is holding the office of attorney general illegally.
Apr. 1, 2024
Last week, Kari Lake did something rare when you’re sued for defamation during a high profile political campaign: She gave up. Now there are questions about its impact on her campaign for U.S. Senate going forward and whether or not she’s baiting Richer into suing her again.
Apr. 1, 2024
Barrett Marson of Marson Media and former state lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate Aaron Lieberman joined The Show this week to talk about Kari Lake’s decision to ask the court to determine the damages in a defamation lawsuit against her, a new legislative committee formed to look into executive oversight and more.
Mar. 29, 2024
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