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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz picked by Harris as her running mate on Democratic...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a Biden-Harris campaign and DNC press conference on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The press conference was held to address Project 2025 and Republican...
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GOP ballot measure to curb emergency powers will have real life consequences
Gov. Doug Ducey announces a new executive order in response to the rising COVID-19 cases in the state during a news conference in Phoenix June 29, 2020. Ducey ordered the closing of bars, gyms,...
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From a Mankato classroom to the White House: Harris names Walz her vice...
Gov. Tim Walz met with child care providers at CLUES in St. Paul. Photo by Michelle Griffith | Minnesota ReformerMinnesota Gov. Tim Walz fused his everyman personality with an optimistic progressive...
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Citing integrity, union support, ‘normality,’ Dems rally around Walz as VP...
Govs. Kathy Hochul of New York, Tim Walz of Minnesota and Wes Moore of Maryland speak to reporters after a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on July 03, 2024 in Washington, D.C.,...
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Court blocks enforcement of Arizona’s voter intimidation rules, just before...
More than a dozen Arizona voters filed voter intimidation complaints during the 2022 midterm election, claiming that drop box watchers were taking photos of them and confronting them as they went to...
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Bill Montgomery says his ‘strong feelings’ on abortion don’t make him biased...
Bill Montgomery speaks with reporters after his July 26 interview with the Commission on Appellate Court Appointments for a seat on the Arizona Supreme Court. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona...
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Judge rules that ‘Tipped Workers Protection Act’ will stay on November ballot
Photo via Getty ImagesA judge has ruled that Proposition 138, also known as the “Tipped Workers Protection Act” will remain on the ballot for the November election. Raise the Wage AZ, a political...
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Telehealth abortion still on the rise, especially in states with shield laws,...
The use of telehealth for abortion care has continued to grow in the U.S., according to the latest #WeCount report, particularly since five states passed laws legally shielding providers who work with...
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First guilty plea in AZ fake elector case comes from GOP activist Lorraine...
Arizona GOP activist Lorraine Pellegrino, one of the 11 fake electors facing criminal charges for attempting to overturn the 2020 election, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in order to avoid...
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Congress limps toward the end of a disappointing session, with just 78 laws...
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson...
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Why are some backers of ‘free enterprise’ so afraid of the marketplace of...
Photo via iStock / Getty Images PlusFree enterprise is essential for our capitalistic economy. It gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to start businesses, work hard, be successful and grow local...
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Grijalva pushes for creation of Great Bend of the Gila National Monument in...
Woolsey Peak, located within the proposed Great Bend of the Gila National Monument in southern Arizona. Photo courtesy Dawn Kish, The Wilderness SocietyTo protect more than 370,000 acres of the Great...
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Contentious ‘Project 2025’ plan uses Arizona as education model
Photo illustration by AZCIR Staff Project 2025, a contentious policy blueprint for the next Republican presidency, seeks to dramatically concentrate power in the White House while fundamentally...
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Walz’s U.S. House tenure: Bipartisan bills and a focus on vets and farms
Tim Walz, center, then the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee, and then-Chairman Phil Roe, right, R-Tenn., pictured during a March 7, 2017, hearing about reforms at the...
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Trump agrees to Sept. 10 debate with Harris, claims two more upcoming
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 24, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland. Trump said Thursday he would...
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Relaunched program will help rural and tribal communities tap into cash for...
The $7.1 billion in earmark, or “community project funding,” requests from House members included everything from infrastructure to workforce training to police equipment. Arizona lawmakers’ requests...
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Abortion foes will ask AZ Supreme Court to keep an abortion rights measure...
Anti-abortion protesters gather at the Arizona Capitol on April 17, 2024, as the legislature prepared to take up legislation aimed at repealing a near-total abortion ban that became law in 1864. Photo...
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Group abandons minimum wage ballot measure hours before judge rules against it
Photo via Getty ImagesA judge ruled against a citizen-led initiative to increase Arizona’s minimum wage on Thursday, just hours after the backers of the measure announced they would abandon their...
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Senators urge better access to disability payments for Long COVID patients
People with symptoms of long COVID attend a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing on long COVID in January. A group of senators is now urging the Social Security...
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Added delays in store for Trump in 2020 election interference case
Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court on Feb. 15, 2024, in New York City. Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records last year,...
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