Mar 13 At Phoenix VA, Obama says more work to do for veterans By Jim Kuhnhenn and Josh Hoffner, Associated Press Amid persistent complaints about veterans' health care, President Barack Obama acknowledged lingering weaknesses Friday in the federal government's response to the chronic delays and false waiting lists that triggered a national outcry over the Veterans Affairs health system last year. Continue reading
Mar 02 Watch 5:16 Supreme Court weighs process, not politics, of who draws voting maps By PBS News Hour In 2000, Arizona voters changed who has the authority to draw district voting lines. Instead of the state legislature, an independent commission was created in an attempt to reduce partisanship. The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing a clause in the… Continue watching
Mar 01 Supreme court to hear case on voter-approved redistricting By Mark Sherman, Associated Press In a reversal of the usual worries about political influence on electoral map-making, the Supreme Court is being asked to let raw politics play an even bigger role in the drawing of congressional district boundaries. Continue reading
Feb 19 ASU and Arizona PBS's new project sheds light on the state's deadly heroin problem By Anna Sillers Arizona is one of the first states heroin reaches when it travels into the U.S. from the southwest border and the state has seen a massive increase in heroin use and overdoses in the past year. A new short film… Continue reading
Jan 12 Should church signs get same treatment as political signs? By Mark Sherman, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A small church in a Phoenix suburb says its local government puts far stricter limits on its roadside signs advertising Sunday services than it places on politicians, real estate agents and other groups, and is asking the Supreme… Continue reading
Jan 07 Obama starts 2015 on an upswing, but can it last? By Julie Pace, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s approval rating is creeping upward. The economy is growing. And a flurry of aggressive executive actions on domestic and foreign policy have energized the West Wing. Continue reading
Dec 24 Judge dismisses lawsuit against Obama on immigration By Pete Yost, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Refusing to rule on the merits of the case, a federal judge has rejected an Arizona sheriff's lawsuit seeking to halt President Barack Obama's plan to spare nearly 5 million people from deportation. Continue reading
Dec 22 Sheriff Joe Arpaio seeks to stop Obama's immigration order in court By Pete Yost, Associated Press Among the evidence in the case is a set of Arpaio press releases and letters to Homeland Security officials that say more than 35 percent of immigrants living in Maricopa County illegally who wound up in Arpaio's jails in 2014… Continue reading
Dec 15 Supreme Court blocks Arizona push to limit abortion drugs By Associated Press The justices on Monday left in place a lower court ruling that blocked rules that regulate where and how women can take drugs that induce abortion. The rules also would prohibit the use of the abortion medications after the seventh… Continue reading
Dec 11 Sea of clouds cover the Grand Canyon in rare weather event By Lorna Baldwin Imagine showing up for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to view the Grand Canyon in Arizona only to find the deep ravine completely covered by clouds. If you went today, that’s what you saw — a rare total cloud inversion just below… Continue reading