The attacks by his fellow contenders - Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry - on Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney for his successes at Bain Capital are disingenuous. The rivals are acting like Democrats. Romney's time at Bain epitomizes the type of success Republicans normally worship: financial self-improvement at the expense of the working man.

On an 18-12 margin the Senate voted Tuesday to make it illegal for public employees to conduct union business while being paid.

I’ve never belonged to a union and have never been a major supporter of unions. However, the recent action of the lame duck Michigan Republican-controlled legislature to introduce and pass in one day a bill to defund unions is despicable and speaks volumes of the hypocrisy and duplicity of Republicans.

Arizona voters may get the chance to scrap the state income tax on what they earn in favor of expanded sales taxes on what they buy.

PHOENIX – Several hundred people demonstrated Thursday at the State Capitol against four Republican bills they say unfairly target unions representing public employees.

State senators voted Tuesday to let Arizonans divert even more of what they owe in taxes to instead help send children to private and parochial schools.

Several controversial Republican-sponsored bills targeting government employee unions appear stalled in the Arizona Senate a week after one such measure was approved.

Arizonans may soon be able to divert more of what they owe in income taxes to instead help students attend private and parochial schools.

Arizona voters are being asked to make next year’s general election the last time they go to the polls.

Rep. Colette Rosati, R-Scottsdale, will pay the state $2,500 to end her dispute with the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission.

Rep. Colette Rosati, R-Scottsdale, will pay the state $2,500 to end her dispute with the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission.

State lawmakers are moving to ensure that your Facebook password is none of your boss's business.

Ike Davis came to Arizona State as one of its most highly-touted freshmen in years, and coach Pat Murphy was not shy about giving him a workload as big as the hype.

Many of Arizona’s known school tuition organizations received a questionnaire Monday from lawmakers seeking to learn more about how they run the Private School Tax Credit program. But one legislator said he wants those groups — known as STOs — to answer even more questions.

Gov. Jan Brewer is threatening to veto some union-busting bills unless lawmakers first give her what she wants: reform of the state personnel system.

Nonprofit charities that give students scholarships for private school tuition may be asked to turn over more information on who receives the money, said the chairman of a legislative committee reviewing the program.

A Tucson man arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Phoenix police officer was charged Thursday with first-degree murder and weapons charges, the top prosecutor in Maricopa County said.

FULLERTON, Calif. - Beau Vaughn will start for Arizona State today against Cal State Fullerton in the third game that will decide one of the eight teams at the College World Series.

Rep. Rick Murphy: What often gets lost in all of the rhetoric of the administrative side of school tuition organizations (STOs) is that at its core, these programs benefits kids — kids whose needs go beyond our public education system, kids whose parents choose the right school with the right fit so that their children will learn and flourish.

July 31, 2004

Chris Sinacori has resigned as pitching coach at Arizona State to accept a similar position at Wake Forest. "It’s really sad to be leaving Arizona State," said Sinacori, who served two tours of duty at ASU under coach Pat Murphy. "I don’t want to leave. But it’s time for me to move on."

A House panel refused Monday to limit who can get scholarships for private schools that are paid for with money that otherwise would go to the state.

On a 5-3 vote the Senate Judiciary Committee agreed Monday to let certain faculty and students bring loaded weapons onto university and community college campuses.