Globe Mayor Al Gameros gave his fourth State of the City address on a hot evening in late-September, painting a detailed picture of the inception of the City’s economic revitalization and laying out Council’s vision for the future. The theme of the address was Preserving Our History, Planning Our Future: …
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Low turnout for primary election no indication of what’s to come for the general
The votes have been cast in Gila County’s primary election and with the exception of one race, the results are in and despite the low turnout, County election officials are preparing for the possibility of a record-breaking vote in November. “A lot of the times the primary election, especially in …
Read More »Meet the Democrats running for State Legislature in our District (LD7)
Globe-Miami, AZ, June 17, 2024 – Voters are invited to meet all four Democrats running for the Arizona State Legislature in LD 7, the legislative district that runs through Globe and Miami. The campaign event will be at the Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum in Miami on June 30 …
Read More »Upcoming elections could see substantial changes in representation
The April 1 deadline to declare for political office has passed and now the calendar turns to the primaries in an election that will tell a lot about the future of Arizona. From the election that will likely decide the razor-thin margin of the U.S. Senate, to the City of …
Read More »Miami Town Council sees competitive race for three Town Council seats
The Town of Miami will get at least one new councilmember in 2025, as three seats are in play during the 2024 election cycle. The seats of longtime councilmen Mike Black, Sammy Gonzales and Robert Licano will be up for grabs and while Black and Gonzales have thrown their hats …
Read More »AZ Supreme Court to decide if Cook stays on Republican primary ballot
BY: CAITLIN SIEVERS – MAY 7, 2024 Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers is one of the final holdouts continuing to challenge the validity of signatures her opponent collected to qualify for the July primary. Out of more than 20 challenges to candidate petitions and the voter signatures on them that were filed …
Read More »Katie Hobbs will be Arizona’s next governor
Kris Mayes leads Abe Hamadeh for attorney general by less than 4,200 votes BY: CAITLIN SIEVERS – NOVEMBER 14, 2022 7:52 PM Democrat Katie Hobbs has been projected as the winner of the Arizona race for governor after six days of vote counting in a tight race that left Arizonans and others across …
Read More »Mayor Gameros says Globe is going in the right direction in the second annual State of the City address
Citizens of Globe gathered at City Hall on Sept. 29 in the newly refurbished Veterans Park to meet their neighbors and hear Mayor Al Gameros’s second annual State of the City address. Gameros focused on the City’s successes over the past year and the challenges that lie ahead. The mayor …
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In our first installment, Talking Politics introduced Civic Engagement Beyond Voting (CEBV), a grassroots organization dedicated to helping progressive voters get involved in the legislative process. The organization was founded by Melinda Merkel Iyer, a Tucson-based activist, is bringing politics down to a local level, where citizen action can make …
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Jan. 10 marked the beginning of Arizona’s 2022 Legislative session, which will be fraught with ultra-partisan politics in a state where many elected officials have bought into the fiction that Joe Biden is not the duly elected president of the United States. Under normal circumstances, the legislative process is an …
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