CHICAGO  -- Immigrant rights activists are outside Wrigley Field, saying the Cubs should move their spring training facility out of Arizona.

Arizona is not going to get its own version of what’s been dubbed “Caylee’s Law,” at least not this year, because of a fight over who gets to run the police force in the polygamous community of Colorado City.

Florida doesn't have an Arizona-style immigration law yet, but mention the possibility and you'll hear a lot of anxious sighs.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The state House passed a bill Thursday that could keep Terri Schiavo alive, less than 24 hours before the severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube is scheduled to be removed.

PHOENIX - A bill that would have Arizona join at least two other states in making it a crime to use a dead soldier's name or photo for commercial purposes without family permission is headed to Gov. Janet Napolitano.

Rep. Rich Crandall, R-Mesa, has been appointed as vice-chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures' (NCSL) Standing Committee on Education, according to a news release. His one-year term will begin at NCSL's Fall Forum Dec. 9-11 in Phoenix.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and that state's legislature have unconscionably meddled in the case of a severely brain-damaged woman, in a hopeless vegetative state for 13 years, whose husband had finally won the right for her to die peacefully.

I am appalled that my mother who is 88 years old, born in New England and recently moved to Arizona, has been denied registration to vote. She went to the motor vehicle office with her Florida voter registration, Florida state issued picture ID (she is blind and does not drive) and social security card. She was denied and told she must produce a birth certificate, which she does not have.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The speaker of Florida's House of Representatives said Friday he is stepping down temporarily to deal with a probe into his hiring by a state college for which he obtained millions of dollars in funding.

Every week of the year has been designated by somebody as National Something Week, designed to bring public attention to issues and causes.

The Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority must tread carefully when it considers a request from Glendale to fund two-thirds of a new baseball stadium that would be the spring training home of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago White Sox.

I wholeheartedly support Senate Bill 1393, which is sponsored by Senator Sylvia Allen of Snowflake. The bill, which Sen. Allen calls the “Freedom to Breathe Act,” says the EPA and the federal government in general do not have the authority to regulate greenhouse gases in Arizona. In reactions to a Feb. 1 story in the East Valley Tribune on the bill, most people seem to think this legislation is an attack on environmentalism. However, the bill does not outlaw legislation that regulates greenhouse gases. It merely asserts any regulation should come from the state Legislature and not from federal bureaucracies. This puts control of Arizona’s environment more in the hands of the people of Arizona.

Special education is an essential component of our public schools intended to ensure every child, including those with learning disabilities, is provided with instruction commensurate with his or her abilities. But special education too often is prone to fiscal neglect and outright misuse.

Earlier this month the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation, one of America’s leading champions of expanding school choice through vouchers, graded Arizona as A- for our scholarship tax credit that helps thousands of children attend private and parochial schools.

Bill Richardson, guest commentary

The Arizona Supreme Court last week heard arguments in a case that will decide the validity of two of Arizona's most promising education programs. The programs allow parents of disabled and foster-care children to choose the best schools for their children.

Arizona’s lawmakers have failed to craft legislation needed to keep the Chicago Cubs in Mesa, opening the door for Florida to lure baseball’s most-attended spring training program.

SOCIAL PROMOTION: Retain students

California’s Legislature — in the midst of taming a state budget deficit that could eat Arizona’s fiscal woes for lunch, and with a new governor trying to restore fiscal restraint to state finances — did not shortchange its people’s right to know while trying to cut costs.

Mesa is confident the state's lawmakers will support a bill to fund a new Chicago Cubs training facility by tapping into tourism dollars and Cactus League ticket sales.

Only six states are adequately prepared to distribute vaccines and antidotes if bioterrorism strikes.

I was delighted to read the new USDA guidelines requiring schools to serve meals with twice as many fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, less sodium and fat, and no meat for breakfast. The guidelines were mandated by the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act signed by President Obama in December of 2010 and will go into effect with the next school year.