Future bids to oust public officials through recall could get a lot harder under the terms of legislation given preliminary approval Tuesday by the Senate.

A Scottsdale legislator figures you might have second thoughts about buying something if you knew all sales are final and it could not be returned.

We’re battle worn. The past two years of campaigns were no less hostile than Hurricane Sandy. Election pundits tell us we’re a nation divided and stuck in this place. All the while, the critical mass of the big government crowd has taken control. We’ve been told this day would come, and it has.

Signatures for a new voter initiative for the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) on the Loop 202 freeway extension was turned in during a meeting yesterday with the tribal elections office.

Voters could get the right to overrule federal laws and mandates under the terms of an initiative filed late Thursday.

As veterans and service members, we live in a new era divorced from the travesty of how we treated our returning veterans during Vietnam. I have never experienced the hate and spite that so many lived through during those times. When someone learns of my service, they can’t tell me emphatically enough how much they appreciate my service. I am constantly humbled by these statements. It is difficult for me to respond with anything other than an inadequate, “Thank you.”

After months of searching and an intense interview process, the city of Phoenix has named Daniel V. Garcia as its new police chief.

After months of searching and an intense interview process, the city of Phoenix has named Daniel V. Garcia as its new police chief.

In his speech of Feb. 10, President Obama said it was necessary for health insurance to cover contraceptive care.

Text of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, as provided by the White House:

Text of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, as provided by the White House:

I guess, in Bob Beane's world ("Free speech without constructive ideas contributes little to progress," AFN, Aug. 17), "right away" is three years?

Recall efforts against City Councilman Sal DiCiccio were called off Monday morning after the group Save Phoenix Taxpayers failed to turn in the required signatures for a recall election. But the battle over city reform is far from over, according to DiCiccio.

As most Americans return to work following vacations around the Fourth of July holiday, so the nation's political class also returns to their jobs, following majority leader Harry Reid's cancelling of the Senate's scheduled Independence Day recess. Top of the agenda will be negotiations to avoid a crisis over the nation's debt ceiling. But another issue should also top the agenda: the sluggish U.S. jobs recovery.

Eight, Arizona PBS has announced special programs through the end of May, including the station’s annual, award-winning broadcast of the National Memorial Day concert, broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.

In Gilbert, veteran candidates know and rookies quickly discover — if they were not already aware — that the people with the clearest message and who put the most boots on the ground typically win in council elections.

Burgoyne trains in Ecuador

Burgoyne trains in Ecuador

Burgoyne trains in Ecuador

Burgoyne trains in Ecuador

Burgoyne trains in Ecuador

Dear Editor: After reading some of the letters in the Sept. 10 (AFN), regarding Linda Turley-Hansen's commentary of Sept. 14, I was angry. Then the sadness set in. It's sad to see the political and economic myopia of some people these days. The Marxist brainwashing of the past 94 years has done its job. That which started as a small snowball of an ideology has become a careening juggernaut of oppressive socialism that will destroy the nation. And very few understand it. Believe me, it's going to be worse as time progresses. Indoctrination has replaced true education. Ayn Rand was right when she wrote Atlas Shrugged. In today's world, the Franklins, Jeffersons, Madisons and the rest of our Founding Fathers would be pariahs. Have the Dark Ages come again? If so, will there be another Reformation? The cruel pendulum of history swings, but in the wrong direction for the truly enlightened. And so it has always been. In today's world, the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution wouldn't have been written as they are, if at all. The multiculturalists and moral relativists would see to that. In 1832, Alexis de Tocqueville said the United States would become socialistic in a very democratic way when he wrote, "Democracy in America." He was right. Don Kennedy