Blog Entries from Political Insider

Senate President Steve Pierce has a race on his hands. Tom Rawles, a former Mesa councilman and former Maricopa County supervisor, is running as an independent for the Legislative...

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has not made inquiries into presidential-nominee-in-waiting Mitt Romney's birthplace, despite numerous requests from the public. ...

Nearly 60,000 Arizona children are being raised by a grandparent or other relative, but a new report says those kids are getting short-changed. The relatives who stepped up to...

A parade of VIP Republicans will head to Tampa in August for the GOP Convention, where they wil anoint Mitt Romney their party's official presidential candidate. Gov....

A federal judge today ruled that Arizona's refusal to pay for incontinence briefs for disabled adults violates Medicaid laws. U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima ordered the...

Three legislative staffers have been given their walking papers, in the name of saving money. Already gone is John Mills, who has been pivotal to Republican efforts on political...

Maybe it's something in the water, says Gov. Jan Brewer. Maybe state lawmakers just don't understand the rules. Or, perhaps their egos have just overshadowed their ability to...

Maricopa County elected officials today will discuss whether to spend taxpayer money to fight another expenditure of taxpayer money. The county Board of Supervisors will discuss...

Add the Clean Elections Commission to the list of groups hoping to intervene in the federal lawsuit over Arizona's new legislative-district map. The commission oversees the...

It’s difficult to appreciate something when you don’t know it’s there. So it is with public health programs. So Will Humble, director of the state Department of...

Rumors have run rampant over the past 24 hours or so that Russell Pearce was going to bow out of his bid for Mesa's Legislative District 25 Senate seat. Pearce, the author of...

The Children's Action Alliance convened a group of moms to talk about what the recently enacted state budget does, or more accurately, doesn't do, for them. Playing off a Mother's...

At a forum discussing a proposed open primary strategy for Arizona, state Sen. Jerry Lewis, R-Mesa, became a key exhibit. Attorney Grady Gammage, who supports the Open...

New state data shows the number of children in foster care continues to rise and a growing number of child abuse and neglect reports aren't being investigated. According to the...

The San Diego Union-Tribune dug up Don Kenney's Arizona past as it looked into complaints about his California real-estate license. The article says Kenney apparently had been...