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Group need not target abortion justices; we’ll remember

I understand why the group Progress Arizona says it will work to unseat two Arizona Supreme Court justices who recently upheld a near-total abortion...

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Arizona doctors may soon perform abortions in California

It may be 1864 in Arizona, but just across the border in California it’s 2024. With that in mind, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is working...

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How school shootings helped the gun lobby win AZ, nation

I arrived in Littleton, Colo., on April 22, 1999, two days after two young men, one 18 and one 17, walked into Columbine High School and opened fire,...

19.04.2024 6

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GOP has the nerve to call Ruben Gallego a 'deadbeat dad'

I would say the Republican operatives trying to get Kari Lake elected in Arizona have lost their minds, but that implies they might, at some point,...

19.04.2024 9

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Phoenix, tell Michelin to take those stars and shove 'em

I didn’t need the upset stomach I was left with after reading Endia Fontanez’s article in The Arizona Republic about why there are no Michelin...

18.04.2024 4

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Why Republicans still haven't killed 1864 abortion ban

If there ever was an example of elected officials putting their personal political concerns over their constituents — and in this case putting those...

17.04.2024 5

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Gov. Hobbs saves schools by banning Ten Commandments

It was laughable from the start that Republican Sen. Anthony Kern would propose a bill to allow teachers to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms....

17.04.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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Frantic Kari Lake urges supporters to 'strap on a Glock'

You can picture it, can’t you? An anguished, disheveled crew of Kari Lake staffers are huddled together late at night in campaign headquarters,...

17.04.2024 30

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Why good news about the plunging murder rate is bad news

I have good news and I have bad news. First, the bad news, which is … good news does not matter. A reporter learns fairly early in a career that...

17.04.2024 5

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Cash and bigotry could doom Apaches' sacred Oak Flat

If we believed that Native American religious beliefs were legitimate, there would be no court case over the destruction of Oak Flat for a copper...

16.04.2024 4

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Sorry, Kari Lake: If you're explaining, you're losing

I’d guess that Kari Lake and the rest of MAGA consider the late President Ronald Reagan to be less of a Republican Party icon than a RINO. But the...

15.04.2024 3

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Behind the GOP scheme to rescue anti-abortion justices

I am often surprised — I know, I shouldn’t be — about how often politicians who have been elected to office by voters try to take away the...

12.04.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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I was at the courthouse when OJ Simpson was set 'free'

I was in the middle of a crushing crowd outside the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles on Oct. 3, 1995, when the verdict in the O.J. Simpson...

11.04.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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Voters can seek justice on those anti-abortion justices

Make no mistake, former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is the reason the state entered Mr. Peabody’s “Wayback Machine” and emerged in an...

11.04.2024 7

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Arizona GOP's A+ anti-abortion reps earn an F for guts

It must be a strange and terrible thing to stand up in public, proud, unafraid, feeling very much a part of a morally committed, iron-clad collective...

10.04.2024 3

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Don't buy Kari Lake's fake concern over abortion ruling

Not all politicians switch their point of view when they realize their point of view will cause them to lose, just the ones who have no principles....

09.04.2024 7

Arizona Republic

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Don't be fooled, Trump will cancel your abortion vote

The Arizona Supreme Court guaranteed the passage of the Arizona Right to Abortion Initiative on Tuesday by deciding to reinstate a pre-Civil War...

09.04.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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Lake and Finchem are trying to lose their way to victory

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08.04.2024 6

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AZ election chief guts Elon Musk's illegal voter tweet

It seems at times as if Elon Musk purchased Twitter (now X) just so he could spread conspiracy theories in a completely unimpeded manner to his 180...

06.04.2024 9

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Trump calls migrants 'animals,' then speads a worse lie

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05.04.2024 20

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GOP bill allows 'neutral' Bible study in public schools

During an election year — during any year, actually — the worst of our politicians propose legislation that is designed exclusively to appease...

03.04.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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GOP again uses Arizona to exhume Trump's pervy problems

Last month, Democratic state Rep. Jevin Hodge, who was only on the job since January, resigned from office after The Arizona Republic reported that he...

03.04.2024 7

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Kari Lake may taunt Stephen Richer into suing her again

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01.04.2024 10

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My malicious reveal of what we agree on as Arizonans

There are days when even a reliably contentious newspaper columnist just doesn’t feel like arguing. Days when he can’t seem to derive the pleasure...

30.03.2024 6

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Judge points out Lake's admission that she defamed Richer

The judge hearing Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s defamation suit against failed Republican governor candidate Kari Lake wasn’t in the...

29.03.2024 4

Arizona Republic

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Speaker Ben Toma weaponizes House against AG Kris Mayes

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28.03.2024 30

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Kari Lake's defamation lawsuit loss is a win for her

As soon as Kari Lake th rew in the towel in the defamation lawsuit she’s facing from Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, she started her...

28.03.2024 10

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Richer edges closer to draining a swampy (Kari) Lake

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27.03.2024 2

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Anchor baby Abe Hamadeh would be 'illegal' under Trump

I don’t expect politicians to make sense. But I still have questions. Particularly when we are talking about what may be the biggest of Donald...

26.03.2024 4

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Fake elector Kern whines that coup planners are victims

The fake electors from Arizona in 2020 knew what they were doing. They tried to overturn the certified results of the state’s election and hand over...

26.03.2024 20

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GOP lawmakers plan to make Arizona one big 'Tent City'

It turns out that former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was so far behind the times that he was ahead of them. Republicans in control of the...

25.03.2024 4

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Hamadeh raises funds at district he’d serve … Mar-a-Lago

Earlier this week, Republican Abe Hamadeh, hoping to succeed Rep. Debbie Lesko in Arizona Congressional District 8, was the beneficiary of a fancy...

22.03.2024 4

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$8.5 billion to Intel, 10,000 new jobs, 4 GOP 'no' votes

At least this time around, none of Arizona’s House Republicans are pretending they were in favor it. Not yet, anyway. Because they weren’t in...

22.03.2024 7

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Clueless Trump backers trash Dems over sex abuse issue

A lack of self-awareness doesn’t quite explain it. Obliviousness, possibly. Delusion, probably. Cluelessness, absolutely. Brainwashed? Yeah, that...

20.03.2024 4

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'I am them': Why lawmaker revealed her planned abortion on Senate floor

On Monday, Arizona Democratic state Sen. Eva Burch took to the Senate floor and told her colleagues something that no one should need to discuss in...

20.03.2024 6

USA TODAY

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Why an Arizona lawmaker revealed her planned abortion

On Monday, Democratic state Sen. Eva Burch took to the Senate floor and told her colleagues something that no one should need to discuss in public....

19.03.2024 4

Arizona Republic

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Rogers bares her inner bigot, calls diversity 'a rot'

Most of us aren’t business analysts, but I’d guess if I were to ask you if a company like, say, Google, was successful, you’d say yes. And if I...

18.03.2024 4

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Election threat gets prison while real culprits walk free

Another one of the criminal dupes who threatened Arizona election officials was sentenced to prison this week, further proving that the Justice...

15.03.2024 10

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GOP wants to squeeze you out of the initiative process

When Arizona became a state in 1912, the founders included in the state’s constitution the ability for citizens to gather signatures in order to put...

14.03.2024 3

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It's now Gallego’s war wisdom versus Lake’s war of words

Rep. Ruben Gallego is everything citizens living in Arizona should be looking for in a member of the U.S. Senate. On paper. His story is a true-blue...

13.03.2024 8

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Why Laken Riley's murder is national news and Preston Lord's isn't

You may not want to admit it, but you know why the murder of 16-year-old Arizona high school student Preston Lord is not a national story, as is the...

13.03.2024 4

USA TODAY

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Donald Trump would have demonized my ‘nonni’, yours too

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12.03.2024 2

Arizona Republic

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Why Laken Riley is national news and Preston Lord isn't

You may not want to admit it, but you know why the murder of 16-year-old Arizona high-school student Preston Lord is not a national story, as is the...

11.03.2024 3

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It's BS to slam Haley for breaking a pledge to Trump

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08.03.2024 5

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Republicans back 'rights' for guns but not gay rights

The Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature have decided that individuals who are not being discriminated against need to receive legal...

07.03.2024 2

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Can Trump tell the difference between Biden and Obama? Maybe not.

Each of us mixes up a name now and again. Forgets something. Confuses one place for another place. As a kid, my mother called me by my brother’s...

07.03.2024 6

USA TODAY

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Lake's specious speech should make Richer richer-er

Kari Lake spouted unproven claims of misconduct and election tampering against Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer in order to grift off gullible...

06.03.2024 8

Arizona Republic

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Sinema's bill would've shut border every day this year

Before we talk about the important stuff, let’s get our respective cliches out of the way. You’re going to say, it’s too little too, too late....

06.03.2024 10

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Schweikert can’t hide his IVF, anti-abortion extremism

Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert has been successful as a politician in a contested congressional district by convincing just enough voters...

05.03.2024 2

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Trump mixes up Biden and Obama. That should trouble you

Each of us mixes up a name now and again. Forgets something. Confuses one place for another place. As a kid, my mother called me by my brother’s...

04.03.2024 2

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