Arizona lawmakers say paying workers lower minimum wage would actually give them more pay through complicated plan

State lawmakers voted Tuesday to ask voters to amend the Arizona Constitution to let restaurants pay their tipped workers even less than they do now. It’s a complicated plan. By Howard FischerCapitol Media ServicesPHOENIX — State lawmakers voted Tuesday to ask voters to amend the Arizona Constitution to let restaurants pay their tipped workers even…

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Prosecutors in Trump’s classified documents case sharply rebuke judge’s unusual and ‘flawed’ order

Advertisement The order surprised legal experts and alarmed special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which said in a filing late Tuesday that that 1978 law — which requires presidents to return presidential records to the government upon leaving office but permits them to retain purely personal ones — has no relevance in a case concerning highly…

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Republicans want to weaken the laws that protect Arizona’s fragile water supply

Groundwater in Arizona belongs to all of us. It is a public resource and sensible management of it is vital to our shared future.But instead of fulfilling their obligation to protect this finite and diminishing water supply, Arizona’s Republican legislators have introduced dozens of bills at the statehouse aimed at enriching residential developers and corporate…

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