More than 1,100 GOP activists will gather today at the Arizona Republican Convention at the Phoenix Marriott Mesa in Mesa to pick delegates for the party’s national convention.

Ahwatukee Foothills resident Loraine Pellegrino has been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Last month, delegates from the Arizona Republican Party State Convention named her as one of 29 delegates to represent at the August National Republican Convention in Tampa, Fla.

Ahwatukee Republican Women's Club members, Loraine Pellegrino, president; Mary Baumbach, second vice president; Jill Norgaard, third vice president; and Debbie Smith, Arizona Federation of Republican Women third vice president; joined nearly 1,200 registrants from 47 states, plus Puerto Rico, as elected delegates to the National Federation of Republican Women's 36th Biennial Convention in Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 29-Oct. 2. Also in attendance was Ahwatukee Foothills resident Danielle Smith, who represented the state of Arizona as a page for the convention.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will travel to the Republican National Convention next week to join the elephants -- literally.

Phoenix won’t be hosting the 2012 Republican National Convention.

Twelve members of the Ahwatukee Republican Women's Club (ARW) were elected delegates to the Arizona Federation of Republican Women's 64th Biennial Convention in November in Fountain Hills, along with several hundred delegates and attendees from around the state.

Like most college seniors, Kristin Middleton has high hopes for her future.

It’s been more than 200 years since there’s been a constitutional convention, but some Republican state lawmakers say the rising national debt makes it high time for the next one.

Gov. Janet Napolitano on Tuesday was given a coveted prime-time speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention this month in Boston.

July 14, 2004

WASHINGTON — We're heavier in pounds and hotter by degrees than Americans of old. We're starting to snub our noses at distant suburbs after generations of burbs in our blood. Our roads and bridges are kind of a mess. There are many more poor, and that's almost sure to get worse.

Phoenix has been named one of four finalists for the 2012 Republican National Convention.

OK, so who got the bounce from the conventions? Obama-Biden did. Initially, they received a national ratings bump of about 4 percent. As of a week later, the bounce had increased to the high single digits.

August 30, 2004

BOSTON — A tough-talking Sen. John Edwards made it clear Democrats will not cede any ground on the issues of terrorism or national defense as the party’s vice presidential candidate delivered the keynote speech Wednesday to the Democratic National Convention.

BOSTON — A tough-talking Sen. John Edwards made it clear Democrats will not cede any ground on the issues of terrorism or national defense as the party’s vice presidential candidate delivered the keynote speech Wednesday to the Democratic National Convention.

The most influential coalition within the Democratic Party will bring its annual convention to the Valley this spring, recognizing recent party gains in Arizona and the state’s possible impact on the presidential election.

July 29, 2004

July 24, 2004