PHOENIX - Former state Senate President John Greene announced Thursday he's running for the Republican nomination for governor in hopes of ousting first-term Democratic incumbent Janet Napolitano.

Arizona Senate Majority Leader Andy Biggs says he'll challenge Senate President Steve Pierce for the chamber's top leadership post.

Senate Republicans chose a Prescott rancher Thursday as president to replace Russell Pearce who was ousted from the Legislature entirely by voters in his Mesa district two days earlier.

Senate President Bob Burns said Tuesday he's not interested in giving voters the option of raising taxes, even temporarily, as an alternative to cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid to education.

Newly chosen state Senate President Tim Bee fired four top staffers Tuesday, promising “a culture change” at the Capitol in how laws are made.

Tuesday’s recall of Russell Pearce creates a legislative power vacuum, with three lawmakers already trying to line up votes to become the next Senate president.

Arizona Senate President Tim Bee, R-Tucson, has endorsed an unfair and discriminatory policy about the possession of guns within the Senate building that favors the Second Amendment rights of his colleagues but not the other people who work at their side every day.

A smaller Republican majority in the Senate ousted incumbent president Steve Pierce of Prescott on Wednesday, replacing him with Andy Biggs from Gilbert.

In the May 5 edition, you reported on the passage of a bill that changed the designation of an intersection, which in turn changed the law on running a yellow/red light, changing the violation standard.

The White House has had to defend Vice President Cheney’s decision to opt out of a presidential order regulating the handling of secret information by the executive branch. Cheney’s reasoning: His office is not really part of the executive branch.

Eighty-two-thousand instead of 120,000 this week. One million Americans have given up even looking for non-existant jobs. Obama promised that his stimulus package would keep Unemployment down below 8 percent. The White House and the Democrats in the Senate and Congress said the stimulus would lower unemployment to 6 percent. Folks, we have an America in “free fall.” An America saddled with a $15 trillion Obama deficit. An America headed for the “poor house”, a third-world economy.

Brushing aside her ties to the Clintons, Gov. Janet Napolitano on Friday endorsed the presidential candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. And the reason? Freshness.

Dan K. Thomasson: The president apparently has decided that Republicans are irrelevant if not downright obsolete and it is best to ignore them, especially those in Congress.

Martin Schram: "Transparency" is the most promising buzzword of the 21st Century. Politicians promise it whenever they campaign. CEOs promise it whenever they get caught. Obama promised us a transparent presidency -- but so far has just given us a translucent presidency.

The abortion flap over President Barack Obama's invitation to speak at Notre Dame's graduation is getting all the attention.

THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. I've asked for a few minutes of your time to discuss a matter of national importance -- the reform of America's immigration system.

Arizona House Republicans released a new border security plan Wednesday, undermining GOP leaders’ efforts to win approval for the Senate’s package by the end of the week.

In 1964, Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater delivered the words that simultaneously defined a conservative political force and doomed his presidential campaign:

WASHINGTON - The Senate drove a stake Thursday through President Bush's plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants, likely postponing major action on immigration until after the 2008 elections.