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1 week ago | 
roselawgroupreporter.com | Jim Small |AZ Mirror
By Jim Small | AZ MirrorA cratering medical marijuana industry and a softening recreational market dragged total marijuana sales in Arizona down nearly 10% in 2024, breaking a three-year streak of at least $1.4 billion in legal cannabis purchases and marking the second straight year of decline. The $1.3 billion in combined medical and recreational sales represents a nearly 14% drop from 2022, when Arizona consumers spent a record $1.5 billion at marijuana dispensaries.
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1 week ago | 
roselawgroupreporter.com | Caitlin Sievers |AZ Mirror
By Caitlin Sievers | AZ MirrorThe Republican gatekeeper standing in the way of the Democratic governor’s nominees to head state departments said this week that those directors need to have a “neutral, fair” approach to regulation. But Sen. Jake Hoffman is using the committee to exact political vengeance on Gov. Katie Hobbs by unfairly targeting her nominees, said Christian Slater, the governor’s chief spokesman.
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2 weeks ago | 
jewishaz.com | Caitlin Sievers |AZ Mirror
Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne knows that a crisis is coming if Arizona teachers keep leaving public schools. He thinks the best way to solve the shortage is to raise teacher pay — a solution that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle can get behind — and to strong-arm districts into implementing more forceful punishments to curb student misbehavior. Horne’s latter idea, however, is not one that has garnered bipartisan support.
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3 weeks ago | 
roselawgroupreporter.com | Ariana Figueroa |AZ Mirror
By Ariana Figueroa | AZ MirrorAmid dozens of injunctions placed against the Trump administration, Republicans on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary discussed a bill Wednesday to curb the nationwide effects of those orders from federal judges. The bill, sponsored by GOP Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who leads the committee, would prohibit district court judges from issuing injunctions that have nationwide effects.
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1 month ago | 
roselawgroupreporter.com | Jen Fifield |AZ Mirror
By Jen Fifield | AZ MirrorA quirk in an Arizona statute governing all-mail elections for local taxing districts could prompt a judge to throw out the results of one such election in a case that could have legal repercussions around the state. The case calls into question the results of Cochise County’s May 2023 election, in which voters narrowly approved a new tax for a county jail.
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1 month ago | 
roselawgroupreporter.com | Caitlin Sievers |AZ Mirror
Daniel Hernandez in 2023. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0By Caitlin Sievers | AZ MirrorFormer state legislator Daniel Hernandez on Monday announced his plan to run in the special election to represent Arizona’s 7th Congressional District. Hernandez is the first big name to announce a run for the seat held by Democratic U.S. Congressman Raúl Grijalva for more than 20 years until his March 13 death from complications of cancer treatment.
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1 month ago | 
roselawgroupreporter.com | Jerod MacDonald-Evoy |AZ Mirror
By Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | AZ MirrorRepublican measures aimed at bolstering cryptocurrency usage in the state by deeming it “legal tender” and creating a “strategic reserve” moved forward, despite concerns over volatility and the lawmakers connections to the cryptocurrency world. Those connections to crypto were on full display, and ultimately a source of humor for state representatives as they plowed ahead on embracing cryptocurrencies.
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1 month ago | 
roselawgroupreporter.com | Caitlin Sievers |AZ Mirror
By Caitlin Sievers | AZ MirrorA Republican’s plan to give a break to housing developers who they say were treated unfairly by updated groundwater supply modeling is dead in the lack of water. The plan to exempt specific proposed housing developments in areas of Queen Creek and Buckeye from a moratorium on building failed to pass through the Arizona House of Representatives for the second time by a vote of 29-26 on Wednesday. One Republican, Rep.
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1 month ago | 
roselawgroupreporter.com | Jerod MacDonald-Evoy |AZ Mirror
“Arizona needs more power to power the future. This bill is a great example of Arizona’s innovation to drive economic development” -Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group founder and president, who represents data centersBy Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | AZ MirrorA Republican measure that would waive certain state regulations to allow data centers and other large industrial energy users to build small nuclear reactors in rural Arizona inched closer to coming law Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
roselawgroupreporter.com | Shondiin Silversmith |AZ Mirror
By Shondiin Silversmith | AZ MirrorConcerns are growing about President Donald Trump’s planned closure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Phoenix. Arizona U.S. Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego sent a letter to the General Services Administration expressing their concern about the intended closure, urging them to reconsider this decision and provide clarity. The BIA office in Phoenix is located on Central Avenue south of Thomas Road.
