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AZ GOP Leaders Hamilton, Caldwell Wed in ‘Gulf of America’ Ceremony

December 16, 2025 9:08 amDecember 23, 2025 3:49 pm

Merissa Hamilton, founder of EZAZ and Strong Communities, and Jeff Caldwell II, Maricopa County Recorder staffer and key operative in Justin Heap’s successful election campaign, wed in a politically themed private ceremony on President Trump’s aptly renamed “Gulf of America.”...

Maricopa BOS’s Stewart Applaud’s Heap’s New Voter Signature Process

November 26, 2025 6:57 amDecember 8, 2025 1:36 pm

Maricopa County officials are offering sharply different assessments of Recorder Justin Heap’s new signature-verification process, which was used for the November 4, 2025, jurisdictional election. During last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Mark Stewart publicly praised Heap and the elections...

Mayes Jumps Into Strange Gagic-Mitchell Feud

November 13, 2025 4:49 pmNovember 24, 2025 11:02 am

Arizona Attorney General has jumped into the complex and increasingly strange legal and political conflict involving Phoenix attorney Vladimir Gagic, Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, and Mitchell’s fiancé, Paul Stout. Mayes’ intervention represents a notable escalation, with the dispute now...

Maricopa Recorder, BOS Clash Intensifies Amid New Ballot Find

November 7, 2025 4:16 pmNovember 18, 2025 2:31 pm

A discovery of 2,288 unattended ballot envelopes left at a ballot-replacement site in Maricopa County has sparked fresh political tension between the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, intensifying an ongoing legal dispute over election...

Carroll Touts SEMICON WEST Win as Proof of AZ’s Tech Bonafides

October 9, 2025 3:10 pmOctober 23, 2025 5:16 pm

Arizona’s growing reputation as a national hub for semiconductor manufacturing and high-tech innovation took center stage this week as SEMICON West 2025, the largest semiconductor industry conference in North America, opened in downtown Phoenix. It’s the first time in the...

Horne, Cota Demand Armed School Officers after Second Knife Incident

September 18, 2025 10:01 amSeptember 26, 2025 11:01 am

On Monday, September 15, 2025, two female Carl Hayden High School students were involved in a fight that left one of them injured, according to Phoenix Police. During the fight, one of the students struck the other with the handle...

Mother-Daughter Board Members Retaliate after Horne Demands Resignations

September 2, 2025 3:41 pmSeptember 17, 2025 10:10 am

Cartwright Elementary School District board members, Lydia and Cassandra Hernandez, are pushing back against Maryvale High School after the Phoenix school accused the pair of “smuggling” a boxcutter onto school grounds on Monday, August 25, 2025. The school alleges that...