Tag: Arizona

Arizona’s Kari Lake Commits to Ensuring Americans Thrive: ‘I Will Fight Every Single Day’

The Republican nominee for the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race, Kari Lake, says she decided to run for political office because she realized that all of the success she has had in her three-decades-long TV career would not mean much if the United States and the freedoms we enjoy are taken away by the radical left. “I will run…


Arizona’s Kari Lake Committed to Ensuring Americans Thrive

The Republican nominee for the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race, Kari Lake, says she decided to run for political office because she realized that all of the success she has had in her three-decades-long TV career would not mean much if the United States and the freedoms we enjoy are taken away by the radical left. “I will run…


Arizona Democrat Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail for Ballot Harvesting

An Arizona Democrat has been sentenced to 30 days in jail because of her involvement in a local ballot harvesting scheme during a 2020 municipal election. Guillermina Fuentes, a 66-year-old school board member and former mayor of the border town of San Luis, was ordered Thursday to turn herself in to the Yuma County Jail,…


Fields of Arizona Gold: Hayden Flour Mills is on a Mission to Save America’s Heritage Grains From Extinction

“My dad and I have one rule: He’s only allowed to tell me one new idea a day”—so Emma Zimmerman begins her book, “The Miller’s Daughter.” Yet it was one of Jeff Zimmerman’s “wild ideas” in 2009 that halted Emma’s doctoral path in neuroethics and set her on the road to what she now calls…


Arizona Senate Candidate Courts Moderate Voters in Late-Campaign Pivot

Arizona’s Senate candidates are looking to sway voters to their side and appeal to moderates in a state that’s been more purple than red in the past two elections. As part of this endeavor, Arizona’s current Senator, Mark Kelly, squared off against Republican challenger and political newcomer Blake Masters in a contentious debate that saw the…


Body Of Garden Grove Man, 47, Recovered From Lake Havasu

GARDEN GROVE, Calif.—The body of a Garden Grove man was recovered from Lake Havasu, Arizona Oct. 9 after he had jumped from a boat to go swimming. The Mojave County sheriff’s office released a statement on its Facebook page saying that the body of 47-year-old Michael Phan was found in approximately 32 feet of water….


Judge Denies Temporary Block to Jan. 6 Subpoena During Appeal

A Phoenix federal judge on Friday refused Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward’s request to put on hold her own previously issued court order that allowed the Jan. 6 Committee to access the Republican leader’s phone records. Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Diane J. Humetewa, an Obama appointee, dismissed Ward’s lawsuit which argued that handing…


Appeals Court Blocks Near-Total Abortion Ban in Arizona

The Arizona Court of Appeals on Friday temporarily blocked a 150-year-old law in the state that bans nearly all abortions. The three-member panel’s ruling (pdf) comes after a state judge ruled on Sept. 23 (pdf) to lift an injunction against the abortion ban, which makes it a crime to provide an abortion unless the mother’s life is…


Police: Ex-grad Student Suspected in Arizona Professor Killing

TUCSON, Ariz.—A University of Arizona professor who authorities say was fatally shot on campus by a former graduate student was an expert on desert water issues who faculty and former students described as a kind and brilliant colleague. School officials identified Thomas Meixner, who had headed the school’s Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, as…


Heated Debate in Arizona Secretary of State Race Highlights Political Divides

It was a hot political debate, for sure, but the heat was clearly on Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for secretary of state on Sept. 20. The “Big Lie” of the stolen 2020 election and Jan. 6 were Arizona Horizon host Ted Simons’ big questions for Finchem during the half-hour long…