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Today's Highlight Adrian Fontes and Alex Kolodin met Wednesday in their final televised debate for Arizona secretary of state, trading personal attacks and few policy specifics five weeks before the Nov. 3 election. The winner will oversee statewide elections and certify Arizona's 2028 presidential results. The candidates split over Proposition 144, Kolodin's measure requiring government-issued identification for all voters, including mail voters. Fontes said it would gut mail voting, while Kolodin disagreed. They also clashed over voter-roll accuracy and ballot-counting speed.
Quick Hits
01Arizona Public Service says the Four Corners Power Plant must operate beyond its planned 2031 exit to meet rising electricity demand, though its planning process will determine the closure date. The utility expects to leave no later than 2038, when its Navajo Nation lease ends.
02The Ninth Circuit upheld Arizona's voter-approved anti-dark-money law Wednesday, ruling 2-1 that Proposition 211's donor-disclosure rules are constitutional. The panel rejected Americans for Prosperity's speech challenge as insufficiently specific, though a narrower state-court claim remains pending after the Arizona Supreme Court largely upheld the measure in June.
03Arizona State University placed hockey coach Greg Powers on paid administrative leave Wednesday, a major step after players called for an outside investigation into the August workout that left a freshman hospitalized on life support. We continue to follow the case as ASU Police and a university review continue, while assistant Mike Corbett leads opening weekend.
04The University of Arizona marked the topping-out of its seven-story Medical Innovations Building in downtown Phoenix's Bioscience Core on Wednesday, with the final beam set atop the 200,000-square-foot research facility. Banner Health will run a bio-incubator on the top two floors when the building opens in October 2027.
05 Bezos Academy Glendale-Sahuaro Glenn opened inside Glendale's Glencroft Center for Modern Aging, offering tuition-free Montessori preschool to eligible children ages 3 to 5. Senior residents can volunteer by reading with children and helping in the garden, while the campus is the network's first Arizona site not attached to another school.
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