In the News
Many around the West Valley have complained about delayed mail over the last few months. Local representatives weighed in from both sides of the matter, with some crying "postal crisis" and others "fake news."
Spoiled medications and missing rent checks are just some of the problems that Arizonans have seen as a result of recent postal system changes, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said during a recent grilling of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is endorsing 23 House freshman Democrats this election cycle, according to a memo first obtained by The Hill. The pro-business advocacy group is also endorsing 29 freshman Republicans.
The committee that voted on the endorsements reached an overwhelming majority consensus in favor of members on both sides of the aisle. The committee voted 75 percent in support of the full set of recommended freshmen for political endorsements, according to the memo.
A cellphone camera caught the police-killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. A 17-year-old high school junior filmed the event and posted it to Facebook. The nearly 10-minute video streamed around the world in seconds. Within minutes, thousands of people in hundreds of cities spoke out to protest police violence and demand police reform. Rebroadcasts pinged into downloads, web pages and conversations on TV and radio networks, changing what we know about policing.
Ms. Lesko and Mr. Stanton were joined by the entire Arizona congressional delegation in sending the letter.
PHOENIX - U.S. Reps. Debbie Lesko and Greg Stanton were joined by the entire Arizona congressional delegation on Monday in calling for a feasibility study regarding improvement options for the McMicken Dam in Surprise.
House Democrats accused the Trump administration of politically motivated, heavy-handed policing to quell protests this summer and warned of election interference in a pair of hearings Tuesday that featured most of Arizona's delegation.
A measure to allow approved visitors from Mexico to travel throughout Arizona without additional documentation, instead of a mere 25 to 75 miles from the border under current law, is making its way through both houses of the U.S. Congress.
Instead of using one of Arizona's swank luxury resorts, the Governor's Conference on Tourism will take its own staycation this year: The state's hospitality industry will gather for the annual event online. Condensed to two days on Zoom, the event will also include the annual announcement of Arizona's tourism statistics for the 2019 calendar year.
Those numbers are likely to be bittersweet for an industry that attracted $24.4 billion in travel spending in 2018 but now struggles as the new coronavirus pandemic keeps travelers at home.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham praised former Vice President Joe Biden's plan to invest in infrastructure and clean energy during a virtual roundtable discussion Friday.
Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, introduced a $2 trillion climate proposal this week that would eliminate carbon emissions from U.S. power plants by 2035. He did not appear with Lujan Grisham and U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., on the video chat.
When Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego appeared on the nationally broadcasted Sunday morning news program "Face the Nation," Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Chucri watched with interest.
Gallego was talking about the impact COVID-19 was having on Phoenix. When asked by the host Margaret Brennan what more she would like to see done, Gallego said among other things, "We would like to see additional protections including moving restaurants to completely take out."