By San Tan Valley Pinal County Board of Supervisors Chairman Stephen Miller is delighted to announce that SB 1274 has today passed into legislation. SB 1274 is referred to as the Plat Revision Legislation. It allows owners of certificates of assured water attached to a Plat to reconfigure the Plat and flexibility on types of uses. The Bill locks in …
Photo screengrab via President Joe Biden Twitter Rebecca Morin, Rafael Carranza | USA TODAY The United States will begin allowing in migrants who sought asylum under the Trump administration but were forced to sit in Mexico as they awaited a hearing before a judge, the Biden administration announced Friday. It was the latest step by President Joe Biden to roll …
By ProBuilder Sacramento is close to approving one of the country’s first plans to end single-family residential zoning, which permits only one home on a property. Up to four homes could be built on lots in the city’s upscale neighborhoods. The LA Times notes this comes as a result of a new booming population of healthcare and technology employers and …
By Matthew Green | Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Pollution from fossil fuels causes one in five premature deaths globally, suggesting the health impacts of burning coal, oil and natural gas may be far higher than previously thought, according to a study published on Tuesday. Parts of China, India, Europe and the northeastern United States are among the hardest-hit areas, suffering …
Photo via Huntington University website By Philip Haldiman | Your Valley The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in favor of an appeal claiming that the city of Peoria illegally entered into an agreement to give up to $2.6 million in taxpayer money to Huntington University in exchange for opening a school in the P83 Entertainment District. Previously, the city prevailed at the …
By Herman Trabish | Utility Dive Controversial proposed Arizona legislation would impose limits on the authority of the state’s elected utility regulators and make their recent groundbreaking zero-emissions mandate unconstitutional. Senate Bill 1175 expresses longstanding concerns from some lawmakers regarding overreach by the elected Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), stakeholders agreed. But those concerns were aggravated by the ACC’s November approval of …
(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Phoenix Rising Football Club.) By Paul Maryniak | Chandler Arizonan The Gila River Indian Community and a Scottsdale development company are poised to begin work on a 3,300-acre sports and entertainment complex at Wild Horse Pass. Sunbelt Holdings President John Graham told the Arizonan that the development, located just south of the Loop 202-I-10 intersection, …
(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents PGA TOUR.) By Mitch Carr | 12News PHOENIX — Two bills – one in each house – are making their way through the Arizona state legislature with the goal of making sports betting and daily fantasy sports legal in Arizona. Jeff Weninger (R-Chandler) TJ Shope (R-Gila/Pinal Counties) are sponsoring the bills, and they hope a …
By Daniel Gonzalez, Rafael Carranza| Arizona Republic President Joe Biden has wasted no time making changes to the nation’s immigration and border policies, many of them a 180-degree reversal of former President Donald Trump’s restrictive policies. On Feb. 2, Biden signed three executive orders. The first creates a task force to help reunite the remaining parents the Trump administration forcibly …
By Daniel Gonzales | Arizona Republic More than 2,500 young undocumented Dreamers have applied for DACA in recent months, among them Phoenix university student Daniel Hernandez. Hernandez was blocked from applying for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program under the Trump administration, which tried to rescind the program. The DACA program grants temporary protection from deportation and work permits to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, known as Dreamers. Trump said …
