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Federal agents who were not in uniform and in an unmarked vehicle pointed guns, chased and handcuffed two Arizona Samaritans ...
Political cartoonist Steve Benson believed I was wrong about everything. But we had one thing in common that mattered more ...
For decades, Steve Benson poked fun at the state’s political figures — first in the pages of the Arizona Republic, and more ...
Goldwater was no doubt referring to Ezra Taft Benson, Steve’s grandfather and a powerful figure as Dwight Eisenhower’s ...
Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham is impeached and ousted by the Senate. He had been indicted by a state grand jury on allegations that he had failed to report a loan from a developer, but he would later ...
PHOENIX — Evan Mecham, the only Arizona governor to be impeached, tried and ejected from office, died late Thursday at the Arizona State Veteran Home after a lengthy illness.
Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham is impeached and ousted by the Senate. He had been indicted by a state grand jury on allegations that he had failed to report a loan from a developer, but he would later be ...
When Republican Gov. Evan Mecham was impeached in 1988, he was followed in office by Democratic Secretary of State Rose Mofford. When Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, stepped down to become ...
Forget Donald Trump vs. Jorge Ramos. Arizona gets its share of awkward news conferences, whether confrontational or just plain weird.
In 1987, Gov. Evan Mecham fulfilled a promise to cancel an executive order from former Gov. Bruce Babbitt that would have made MLK Day an Arizona holiday. In 1990, the state put it up for a vote ...
'I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the Arizona battle over MLK Day.