Water, wildfire and good jobs are not Republican or Democratic issues. They're Arizona issues, which is why I'm taking strong ...

It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The movement to carve out a day to honor King began shortly after his 1968 ...

The article outlines Arizona's contentious history with recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a state holiday and the ...

Bruce Babbitt served as Arizona governor from 1978-87 and as secretary of the Interior from 1993-2001. Reach him at [email protected].

Bruce Babbitt that would have made MLK Day an Arizona holiday. In 1990, the state put it up for a vote, and Arizona voters rejected the holiday. Shortly after, a national boycott that included ...

Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super Bowl played a role.

Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a public vote to do so. In 1987, Gov. Evan Mecham fulfilled a promise to cancel ...

Arizona was not the last state to create an ... On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive order by previous Gov. Bruce Babbitt to create the holiday after the Legislature failed to ...