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Turning Point grades lawmakers, endorses candidates, mobilizes voters and openly talks about primarying Republicans who don’t “play ball.” How much power does that give one organization over Arizona politics? By Jim Fuller | Sentah the Truth
Arizona cities are walking away from automated license-plate readers after cases of police misuse. Queen Creek is trying something different: keep a tool police say works, and make abusing it a crime.
President Donald Trump says oil secured through a new agreement with Venezuela will be used to replenish the United States’ Strategic Petroleum Reserve, tying a major foreign-policy and energy deal directly to America’s emergency oil stockpile.
Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed bills at a dramatically higher rate than her immediate predecessor. Republicans point to that record as evidence that she obstructs the Legislature. But Arizona lawmakers have also repeatedly sent her bills she already rejected, passed measures they knew she opposed, and at times pushed legislation largely along party lines. So who is really driving the veto count?
Proposition 212 will not appear on Arizona’s November ballot after a court fight over petition signatures. But the battle over Empowerment Scholarship Accounts is far from finished. With one route to sweeping ESA reform closed, control of the Arizona Legislature may now determine what comes next.