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Laurie Roberts

Arizona Republic

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Hobbs vetoes GOP election bill, to Republicans' delight

yesterday 1

Arizona Republic

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Axon loses its bid to roll over our rights

yesterday 8

Arizona Republic

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Time to end Arizona's legislative immunity

Time to end Arizona's legislative immunity
16.02.2025 20

Arizona Republic

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Voters could nix state felonies for machine guns. Swell

Voters could nix state felonies for machine guns. Swell
14.02.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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DEI is no 'poison' in this city, despite leaders' claims

DEI is no 'poison' in this city, despite leaders' claims
13.02.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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Taylor Robson could win, if the GOP gets out of her way

Taylor Robson could win, if the GOP gets out of her way
13.02.2025 20

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Immigration bill makes Arizona Dems even more irrelevant

Immigration bill makes Arizona Dems even more irrelevant
12.02.2025 6

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Fake electors get a win with laughable free speech claim

Fake electors get a win with laughable free speech claim
11.02.2025 8

Arizona Republic

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Lawmaker asks peers to follow the law. Oh, how unfair

Lawmaker asks peers to follow the law. Oh, how unfair
10.02.2025 5

Arizona Republic

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Lawmakers should butt out of this city's apartment fight

Lawmakers should butt out of this city's apartment fight
09.02.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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Yet another Senator Speedy refuses to follow the law

Yet another Senator Speedy refuses to follow the law
06.02.2025 6

Arizona Republic

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Since when does ICE send a tank to nab an old guy?

Since when does ICE send a tank to nab an old guy?
05.02.2025 20

Arizona Republic

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Lawmaker wants to limit bills, including his crazy ideas

Lawmaker wants to limit bills, including his crazy ideas
04.02.2025 2

Arizona Republic

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Don't expect Trump to help Douglas' border emergency

Don't expect Trump to help Douglas' border emergency
02.02.2025 5

Arizona Republic

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ASU group hosts a sickening 'snitch on classmates' event

ASU group hosts a sickening 'snitch on classmates' event
31.01.2025 5

Arizona Republic

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Isaac teachers deserve our respect (and their pay)

Isaac teachers deserve our respect (and their pay)
31.01.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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Breathe, Dems. Trump's pause on grants is not DEFCON 1

Breathe, Dems. Trump's pause on grants is not DEFCON 1
29.01.2025 10

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Help this Phoenix school district, then dissolve it

28.01.2025 4

Arizona Republic

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Gov. Hobbs faces Big Trouble in 2026

Gov. Hobbs faces Big Trouble in 2026
28.01.2025 4

Arizona Republic

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AZ GOP leadership battle could hobble the party (again)

26.01.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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GOP superintendent dares to disagree with Trump raids

25.01.2025 10

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Trump and his MAGA choir can't handle the holy truth

23.01.2025 3

Arizona Republic

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A GOP fight for governor only helps Democrats

22.01.2025 2

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QAnon Shaman gets pardon, plans to go ... buy guns?

22.01.2025 4

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Strip babies of their birthright? That'll backfire

22.01.2025 6

Arizona Republic

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Governor's ESA reform plan is smart ... and doomed

19.01.2025 4

Arizona Republic

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Why does a school district this messed up even exist?

18.01.2025 20

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Democrats have no good reason to hate early voting bill

17.01.2025 10

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Force Hobbs to deport migrants? That's almost funny

16.01.2025 3

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State could arm teachers, but not with what they need

15.01.2025 5

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Gov. Hobbs is headed for a MAGA meat grinder

14.01.2025 20

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Lawmakers must focus on schools, not defeating Hobbs

10.01.2025 5

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Scottsdale would chase away jobs to stop apartments?

10.01.2025 20

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Sen. Gallego's immigration about-face is a real stunner

09.01.2025 20

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Déjà vu? Trump fumes over half-staff flag honoring Carter.

Incoming President Donald Trump railed recently about the outrage that is apparently sweeping through the nation. The American flag, it seems, will...

08.01.2025 3

USA TODAY

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Lawmakers move to protect guns, not kids who die by them

Sixty-eight Arizona children were killed with guns in 2023, according to the latest state report on child fatalities. Guns were the second leading...

08.01.2025 5

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Sure, bring back hockey to Phoenix ... with 2 conditions

Just nine months after the Arizona Coyotes skated off to Salt Lake City, there’s talk once again about bringing  professional hockey back to the...

07.01.2025 4

Arizona Republic

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We need way mo' answers about Waymo's circling taxi

If you drive anywhere in the Valley, you’ve seen them on the streets. Those weird Waymo robo-taxis driving around (and around and around) the...

07.01.2025 6

Arizona Republic

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Trump fumes over half-staff flag. He's done this before

04.01.2025 40

Arizona Republic

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Free tutoring program works. So, naturally, we nixed it

Just two months after announcing that free tutoring for struggling students would continue in 2025, the Arizona Department of Education has...

31.12.2024 2

Arizona Republic

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Arizona's 10 best (and worst) political moves of 2024

Crazy as it seems, 2024 is a wrap. It’s been, as usual, a year of the strange and the surprising in Arizona politics. Of a scorned senator and a...

31.12.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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It's not Biden selling border wall sections. It's Congress.

Break out the smelling salts. That sneaky Joe Biden is apparently selling off America’s future border wall as part of a dastardly plot to open the...

21.12.2024 2

USA TODAY

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Trump could build his 'beautiful' border wall with junk

Break out the smelling salts. That sneaky Joe Biden is apparently selling off America’s future border wall as part of a dastardly plot to open the...

20.12.2024 20

Arizona Republic

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Kari Lake echoes fake report that Hobbs could be jailed

Kari Lake, Donald Trump’s pick to run the Voice of America, is spreading a gossip rag’s report that a key Trump official is calling for the arrest...

20.12.2024 10

Arizona Republic

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'Tis not the season for a severed Trump head wreath

From the peace on earth and goodwill toward man category: Democrats in Fountain Hills hung a Christmas wreath in the town’s community center. At...

17.12.2024 4

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Gilbert is clearly in denial about its goons

After years of a gang of thugs running rampant through the town … after the community screams and the police finally are forced to act … after teen...

17.12.2024 10

Arizona Republic

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It's sad to see Sen. Kyrsten Sinema go out like this

It’s sad to see Kyrsten Sinema go out like this. Once, she was a bright spot in the Democratic Party, a political up and comer who managed to...

15.12.2024 10

Arizona Republic

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It's time to put the 'early' back in early ballots

One in 10 Maricopa County voters — nearly a quarter of a million voters — dropped off their early ballots at a polling place on Election Day. You...

12.12.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Laurie Roberts

Trump thinks Kari Lake should be his Voice of America

Congratulations are in order to Kari Lake, who just snagged the Donald Trump seal of approval to serve as director of the Voice of America. OK, so...

12.12.2024 4

Arizona Republic

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Yet another draft Kari Lake campaign emerges ... in Iowa

Forget Mexico. Could Kari Lake be bound for corn country? Fresh off her second loss in a statewide election in Arizona, there’s a push on to get...

11.12.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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