BY LINDA BENTLEY | JULY 8, 2015
Addressing Carefree’s recent barrage of executive sessions
‘Just because you can have one, should you?’
CAREFREE – With no speakers for Call to the Public, during Current Events, Mayor Les Peterson asked Marketing Director Gina Kaegi to do a presentation at a future meeting regarding October events.
Presumably due to Carefree’s recent blitz of executive sessions, Town Attorney Michael Wright (r) explained the statutory parameters of executive sessions to council.
He prefaced his presentation with the question, “Just because you can have one, should you?”
BY LINDA BENTLEY | JULY 8, 2015
Davis-Oliver Act ready to cue up in the Senate
Closing a lot of gaps in the current code for removing criminal aliens, the bill adds a number of offenses to the definition of aggravated felony
WASHINGTON – Back in June 2013, Rep. Trey Gowdy (r), R—S.C., as chair of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, introduced the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement (SAFE) Act, with the support of Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chair of the Judiciary Committee.
BY ALAN KORWIN | JULY 8, 2015
New Arizona gun laws took effect July 3
Arizona had its shortest legislative session since 1968, but it still kept gun-rights activists busy. All the bad bills – those that would infringe on gun rights – were killed, but some very important good ones died as well. Of the 27 gun bills proposed, only four passed, and a fifth tightened ballot-proposition rules to help prevent chicanery that might occur when an attempt is made to change our gun laws by outside dark money forces in 2016.
JULY 8, 2015
Superintendent Diane Douglas issues statement on Ethnic Studies ruling
PHOENIX – Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas today responded to the latest court ruling on the case now referred to as Arce v. Douglas.
JULY 8, 2015
Sheriff Joe’s got Trump’s back
‘I thought we have freedom of speech in this country’
In a radio interview recorded last Thursday, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio backed up some of Donald Trump’s remarks about illegal immigrants while defending the real estate moguls’ “right to voice his opinion.”
