Andy Biggs at an campaign event for the launch of his guberntorial campaign in May 2025. The event was hosted by Turning Point Action and Turning Point PAC. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)
No, there isn’t a ‘Democrats for Biggs’ movement, despite what new signs claim
Who, exactly, are the “Democrats for Biggs”? That’s the question behind a wave of blue campaign signs popping up around Greater Phoenix, claiming Democrats are backing Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Biggs.
The signs don’t say which Democrats. They don’t name any supporters. And the people promoted online as Democrats supporting Biggs aren’t current Democrats at all: They are people who were once registered as Democrats but changed their party affiliation years ago.
And the group behind the signs is not a Democrat-led organization, but...
(Photo by Marty Schladen/Ohio Capital Journal)
Prop. 316 would cap Arizona grocery taxes. Rural cities say it will cost them, and their residents.
Voters will decide in November whether city governments must earn their approval before raising grocery taxes. And while Republicans say doing so will help ease the financial burden on everyday Arizonans, some city officials warn that it will make it harder to provide public services.
Proposition 316 would cap grocery tax rates at 2% and require cities...
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Diesel hits record $6.51 as some Republicans break with Trump over Iran war
WASHINGTON — Diesel prices hit a record average of $6.51 a gallon Monday, and some in President Donald Trump’s own party are breaking their support for the ongoing war in Iran that has driven fuel prices to staggering levels in the United States and across the globe.
Already, House Republicans locked in tight races as the November midterms approach have distanced themselves from the president’s conflict and his...
Alabamans hold up signs that read “No Data Center” at a County Commission meeting on Aug. 24, 2026, in Hayneville, Alabama, in the Lowndes County Courthouse. (Anna Barrett/Alabama Reflector)
Trump likes AI data centers. Congress seems stuck. The midterms could deliver a verdict.
WASHINGTON — The rare 2026 issue that draws huge support from Republicans and Democrats in Congress is the same one that’s mobilized many Americans: restrictions on giant data centers.
The House has overwhelmingly passed legislation forcing state regulators to consider requirements that data centers absorb the cost of the electricity they use.
But there’s more to be done, say data center critics, and they’re finding...
Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements. (Photo by Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
Doctors and enrollees sue over Medicaid work requirements from Trump’s spending law
Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements.
The broad tax and spending law that President Donald Trump signed last summer, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, established work, school or community service requirements for...
Grizzly bears in the lower 48 states are federally protected as a threatened species. A new memo from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik says that endangered animals may be killed as long as the action was not “intentionally directed at a particular animal or animals.” (Photo courtesy of Terry Tollefsbol/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Trump wildlife official quietly clears the way for developers and loggers to kill endangered species
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public.
Individuals and industries may kill endangered animals in the course of logging projects, developments and other activities, it said — so long as...
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