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1 week ago | 
militaryfamilies.com | Crystal Kupper
Navy sailor Natalie Mills and her husband are dual military with two young children. At first, the Child Development Centers on their various bases worked well for child care; Mills could see and nurse her daughter on lunchbreaks. But then she and her husband discovered a more personalized, multicultural option in 2022: hiring an au pair. An au pair is a young person from another country who provides child care while living with a host family for one to two years.
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2 weeks ago | 
arizonaglobe.com | Crystal Kupper
Governor Katie Hobbs rejected a bill on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, that would have created drug-free zones around homeless shelters in Arizona. House Bill HB2437, sponsored by Rep. Matt Gress (R-4), would have also raised the penalties for drug dealing within the zones and mandated that homelessness facilities display signs declaring their property as drug-free zones and implement formal policies prohibiting drug possession and use.
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3 weeks ago | 
arizonaglobe.com | Crystal Kupper
Pornography creators and consumers in Arizona will no longer have a free pass to use artificial intelligence featuring children in their material. Governor Katie Hobbs signed the bipartisan House Bill HB2678 into law on Monday, May 12, 2025. House Majority Whip Julie Willoughby (R-13), a mother of two young children, sponsored the legislation.
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3 weeks ago | 
arizonaglobe.com | Crystal Kupper
Pornography creators and consumers in Arizona will no longer have a free pass to use artificial intelligence featuring children in their material. Governor Katie Hobbs signed the bipartisan House Bill HB2678 into law on Monday, May 12, 2025. House Majority Whip Julie Willoughby (R-13), the mother of two young children, sponsored the legislation.
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4 weeks ago | 
militaryfamilies.com | Crystal Kupper
Kim Wilson is a big believer in the saying, “There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.” This philosophy extends to her career as a pediatric occupational therapist in Colorado, where she treats her patients entirely outdoors, year-round. “I believe in developing grit,” said Kim, a Space Force wife and homeschooling mother of six. “When you choose to get outside, even when conditions aren’t perfect, it’s a great life lesson that we can do hard things.” Kim’s husband, Lt. Col.
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1 month ago | 
arizonaglobe.com | Crystal Kupper
If Representative Tony Rivero (R-27) has his way, false testimony in legislative committees will soon become a thing of the past — or at least be a lot less tempting. He sponsored House Bill HB2824, which allows any legislative committee chair to issue a subpoena for the sergeant-at-arms or a county sheriff to arrest anyone refusing to submit to questioning or produce requested documents.
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1 month ago | 
arizonaglobe.com | Crystal Kupper
What started with a box of Italian Froot Loops has resulted in a bill banning 11 ultra-processed food ingredients in Arizona school meals. Rep. Leo Biasiucci’s (R-30) House Bill HB2164 officially prohibits public schools in the Grand Canyon State from serving or selling meals with ingredients like red dyes 3 and 40, the whitening agent titanium dioxide, and brominated vegetable oil, among others. Hobbs signed the bill on April 14, 2025, impacting meals provided by the state’s school systems.
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1 month ago | 
reservenationalguard.com | Crystal Kupper
Members of the National Guard in 20 states now have a solution for a common challenge facing working parents: quality child care. Upwards, the largest child care network in the U.S., partnered with the Army Reserve in 2023 on a pilot program that was so successful it expanded to include the Army National Guard last year. Now, thousands of soldiers and their families are benefiting from the service, including Sgt. 1st Class Tyler Sigler.
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1 month ago | 
arizonaglobe.com | Crystal Kupper
Fourteen minutes before a scheduled ad hoc committee meeting on executive budget mismanagement on April 3, 2025, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announced that her agencies were prohibited from participating. The committee, consisting of three Democrats and six Republicans, was formed by House Speaker Steve Montenegro (R-29) due to a $122 million Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) budget shortfall. The Arizona Globe previously reported on the missing funding here.
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2 months ago | 
reservenationalguard.com | Crystal Kupper
Members of the National Guard in 20 states now have a solution for a common challenge facing working parents: quality child care. Upwards, the largest child care network in the U.S., partnered with the Army Reserve in 2023 on a pilot program that was so successful it expanded to include the Army National Guard last year. Now, thousands of soldiers and their families are benefiting from the service, including Sgt. 1st Class Tyler Sigler.
