Higley school board member Kim Anderson is forming a political action committee with teachers, parents and community members to identify qualities they want in a new superintendent and to find candidates to run for the board in 2008.

Already enriched through more book sales following her tiff on the tarmac with President Obama, Gov. Jan Brewer is now using the incident to raise money for her political action committee.

The Gilbert Attorney’s Office has levied a $30,000 fine against a political action committee supporting the street bond.

The state Senate president is going to get some financial help from a national political action committee in his bid to keep his seat.

Eighth-graders at Gilbert’s Highland Junior High School on Monday pushed to allow students to bring electronics to school, have more social time, and be given free water bottles.

Michelle Aubert has been on the scene for a relatively short time, but she was involved in one of Scottsdale’s most memorable political spats in years.

National taxpayer associations are pushing Republican leaders to name U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake to serve on the House Appropriations Committee, a position that Flake has promised to use in his crusade to expose and slow earmark spending.

WASHINGTON - Yahoo’s chief executive and top lawyer on Tuesday defended their company’s involvement in the jailing of a Chinese journalist. Irate lawmakers accused them of collaborating with an oppressive communist regime.

A dozen scrap plywood boards painted white and spray-painted with green lettering are central to a resident group’s campaign to kill a shopping center planned in their Gilbert neighborhood.

Welcome again to Scarp's Scottsdale Sunday Brunch, a review of the week's news where there's sooooo much to choose from. Strangely, no one ever comes back for seconds....

Elected officials met with Coronado High School students Wednesday in the hope of inspiring the next generation of politically active women.

Part 3 of a 3-day special report

Part 3 of a 3-Day Series

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's Justice Department's actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired a U.S. attorney in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday in closing a two-year investigation without filing charges.

May 14, 2004

The push for state funding of all-day kindergarten suffered a setback Thursday as a House committee blocked a plan strongly backed by Gov. Janet Napolitano.

The head of a U.S. Senate subcommittee wants Gov. Jan Brewer to tell him and his colleagues why she thinks Arizona needs its own law aimed at illegal immigration.

WASHINGTON - Stabilizing Iraq will require "new and different actions" to improve security and promote political reconciliation, the Navy admiral poised to lead American forces in the Middle East said Tuesday. Adm. William Fallon also told the Senate Armed Services Committee that it may be time to "redefine the goals" in Iraq.

August 26, 2004

WASHINGTON - Al Gore, a Democratic favorite for the presidency despite pronouncements that he's not running, spoke out on his signature issue Wednesday, warning of a "true planetary emergency" if Congress fails to act on global warming.

Federal immigration reform has stalled in Congress after months of overheated debate and protest marches around the country. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has refused to explore possible compromises between a House immigration enforcement-only approach and a Senate plan that includes a new guest-worker program and new paths to citizenship.