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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Photo by Howard Fischer/Capitol Media Services

    Mayes, Petersen clash in AG candidate debate (opens the original)

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    SCOTTSDALE – The Republican nominee for attorney general lashed out Wednesday night at incumbent Kris Mayes for filing more than four dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration. Warren Petersen said that Kris Mayes engages in “political lawfare,’’ using her office to go after who she perceives as enemies. And if nothing else, he said, the lawsuits are not a good use of Arizona taxpayer funds that could be used for other priorities. But Petersen could not identify any one specific ca

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Photo by Howard Fischer/Capitol Media Services

    Schools chief candidates clash over testing Arizona ESA students (opens the original)

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    PHOENIX – Teresa Leyba Ruiz said if private and parochial schools want to accept state dollars for tuition, they should be required to prove that the students actually are learning something by requiring they be academically tested. “That’s part of accountability,’’ the Democratic candidate for state school chief said during a televised face-off Monday with Kimberly Yee, her Republican foe. Ruiz said since Republican lawmakers decided in 2022 to create a system where any student can ge

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Photo by Howard Fischer/Capitol Media Services

    ACC candidates clash over solar policy, efficiency rebates in Phoenix debate (opens the original)

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    PHOENIX–The lone incumbent seeking reelection to the state’s utility regulatory agency is defending the panel’s decisions to cut programs to encourage use of renewable energy and eliminate most rebates for energy efficiency purchases. And Republican Kevin Thompson said while he has nothing against solar, he said that the technology has not yet come far enough to make it reliable–even in a state with so much sunshine. “Battery technology is not where it needs to be to cover nighttime,â€

  4. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Photo by Howard Fischer/Capitol Media Services

    Fontes counters misinformation in effort to get Arizonans inoculated (opens the original)

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    PHOENIX – Adrian Fontes wants to get as many Arizonans as he can inoculated. But in this case, it isn’t against the latest virus. It’s against the misinformation he says that seems to blossom every time there’s an election. And the Democratic secretary of state says he figures the more people who get inoculated through the web site he is creating, the fewer people who will be infected by what he says are the lies that some people like to tell. “You never know what’s the next little m

  5. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Photo by Howard Fischer/Capitol Media Services

    Hobbs won’t reveal donors behind legal defense fund as probes continue (opens the original)

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    Gov. Katie Hobbs won’t disclose who is helping to fund the legal costs she has incurred in investigations of whether she was involved in a “pay-to-play’’ scheme. Nor does she intend to do so even as at least some of those inquiries continue. And Hobbs told Capitol Media Services Sunday she plans to continue to collect money for her legal defense fund–with no reporting of donors to the public–even after that probe is finished, this time in anticipation of possible upcoming litigation

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