Maricopa articles

  • Maricopa County passes tentative budget with lower tax rate

    (The Center Square) – The budget in Maricopa County will presumably go down by 11% in fiscal year 2025. A decrease in the budget compared with the current fiscal year is largely attributed to less “one-time spending” and a decrease of $32.7 million in retirement costs. In total, the difference between fiscal year 2024 and 2025 was over $493 million. The budget totals at roughly $3.87 billion, with 47.6% going toward public safety and 25,78% going toward health, welfare, and...

  • Maricopa Republicans censure AZ Supreme Court because it rejected election lawsuits

    Maricopa County Republicans censured the AZThe Maricopa County Republican Committee has censured all seven of Arizona’s Supreme court justices for “failure to perform their duties fairly and impartially” because they rejected bids by Kari Lake and Abe Hamadeh to overturn the 2022 election and allowed a defamation case against Lake to continue. The MCRC’s Executive Guidance Committee unanimously adopted the censure on May 7, condemning the actions of Arizona’s high court for “unjustly”...