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Aug 27, 2024 | 
arizonaagenda.substack.com | Hank Stephenson
When news broke that Republican state House candidate Michael Way allegedly voted in North Carolina as recently as 2022 and therefore hasn’t lived in Arizona long enough to be constitutionally eligib…
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
arizonaagenda.substack.com | Curt Prendergast
Figuring out who to vote for, and who Arizonans will elect each election season, is a game of strategy. So we made it an actual game! Our readers told us they loved our primary prepping series breaking down the bios of each primary election candidate in the survey we put out a few weeks ago. So we’re doing something similar by making every candidate in a competitive legislative election their own playing card.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
arizonaagenda.substack.com | Curt Prendergast
After weeks of lawsuits attempting to strike questions from Arizona’s long and loaded ballot, the final dominoes fell this week. In a series of rulings leading up to this week’s deadline to start printing ballots, Arizona Supreme Court justices gave the green light to the abortion rights citizen initiative and the tipped workers ballot measure. They also said the fair elections initiative wasn’t unconstitutional and shot down a lawsuit over the signatures gathered to get it on the ballot.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
arizonaagenda.substack.com | Hank Stephenson
The vote to select the next speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives is something of a Russian nesting doll of an election. It’s a post-election election in which elected members of the House …
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
arizonaagenda.substack.com | Hank Stephenson
After we predicted that Arizona would end up with a historic split Senate in 2025, several of you readers reached out to ask how that all would work. Would it simply mean gridlock? Who would control t…
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
arizonaagenda.substack.com | Hank Stephenson
Thank you readers so much for rolling with our semi-vacation week where we talked about ourselves the whole time!It worked…Thursday evening, we hit our goal of a quarter-million in ongoing subscription revenue ahead of our birthday. You all are the best!All week, we’ve been asking you to fill out a survey telling us what you like and don’t like about the Agenda, what we can do better, and your big ideas for new sections. If you haven’t filled it out yet, we still want to hear from you.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
arizonaagenda.substack.com | Hank Stephenson
In case you somehow missed it, this week is the Agenda’s third birthday!Thanks for sticking with us through our self-indulgent self-coverage!Now, the payoff: We’re gonna tell you exactly how much money this little newsletter generates. We know you’re curious…But first, a short lesson on local news economics. Most reporters in this state are paid less than teachers. The companies that own newspapers are almost uniformly terrible employers.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
arizonaagenda.substack.com | Hank Stephenson
Hey readers, Did you know that the very first promise the Agenda ever made to its subscribers was we wouldn’t be boring? Our goal here at the Agenda is not just to tell you the facts of a news story on a given day, though we do a fair amount of that. We started the Agenda so regular people can nerd out on the fascinating and wild world of Arizona politics. We bring you behind the scenes so you know what’s happening in your government.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
arizonaagenda.substack.com | Hank Stephenson
Hey readers, We’ve been combing through the last year’s worth of Agendas in anticipation of our third birthday this week. And wow. What a rollicking year it has been… Today we’ve pulled some of our favorite episodes from Season Three of “The Agenda,” our daily newsletter/telenovela about Arizona politics and government.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
arizonaagenda.substack.com | Hank Stephenson
Hey readers,The Arizona Agenda is turning three years old this week! Isn’t that wild? We’ve been doing this for 770 emails and counting. And it’s all because of you. To every single subscriber reading these words: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Your decision to hit that subscribe button is what made this all possible. Thank you for allowing us to be part of your routine. Thank you for taking the time to read.