Stacey Barchenger

@sbarchenger

Reporter covering Arizona’s @GovernorHobbs and @AZAGMayes for The Arizona Republic | @azcentral. Story ideas welcome. [email protected]

Phoenix, AZ

Joined November 2009

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jul 22

The Arizona Republic / @azcentral printing will move to Las Vegas and Phoenix facility will be closed. azcentral.com/story/news/ari…

sbarchenger's tweet card. The final copies of The Arizona Republic printed in Phoenix will roll off the presses Oct. 5.

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jul 20

AZ @GovernorHobbs says the state is “going to do everything we can to help support managing (the Dragon Bravo) fire and then get to rebuilding." She goes to DC next week to talk to federal fire response leaders. azcentral.com/story/news/pol… via @azcentral

sbarchenger's tweet image. AZ @GovernorHobbs says the state is “going to do everything we can to help support managing (the Dragon Bravo) fire and then get to rebuilding." She goes to DC next week to talk to federal fire response leaders. azcentral.com/story/news/pol… via @azcentral

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jul 17

Amid scrutiny of Grand Canyon fire, forest experts say managed burns are still needed. A good read from Brandon Loomis of @azcenvironment & @azcentral azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

sbarchenger's tweet card. Political leaders seek an investigation into the Dragon Bravo Fire, but experts urge careful thought.

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Taylor Seely 🌵@taylorseely95 · Jul 15

Mayes knows the value of Arizona's open meeting law: She was a reporter who used it, a corporation commissioner subject to it, and now the attorney general who enforces it. So why'd she close out 93 cases w/out investigation? Great story by @sbarchenger azcentral.com/story/news/pol…

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Mary Jo Pitzl@maryjpitzl · Jul 15

Arizona Democrats set to decide fate of Robert Branscomb, the embattled state party chair azcentral.com/story/news/pol… via @azcentral

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jul 15

New: @AZAGMayes' office closed nearly 100 open meeting law complaints without investigation this year. Mayes blames her predecessor and a budget cut; her critics say it's a dereliction of duty and she's distracted by lawsuits against Trump.azcentral.com/story/news/pol… via @azcentral

sbarchenger's tweet card. Earlier this year, 93 complaints were closed as a matter of "prosecutorial discretion," according to Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes' office.

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jul 15

National Park Service says wildfire that burned Grand Canyon Lodge was expertly handled. But Arizona lawmakers and leaders from both parties want an investigation. By @PerryVandell via @azcentral azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

sbarchenger's tweet card. The fire that burned for days on the North Rim of Grand Canyon before it became uncontrollable was "expertly handled," the National Park Service said.

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Ray Stern@raystern · Jul 10

"Acknowledging the House's recent battle to reduce spending in the new state budget, (House Speaker) Montenegro noted the project was paid out of the internal budget the House was allocated for the fiscal year that just ended June 30..." By @maryjpitzl: azcentral.com/story/news/pol…

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jul 8

Gnaw and order: An imperiled Arizona river gets help from relocated beavers azcentral.com/story/news/loc… via @azcentral

sbarchenger's tweet card. A pair of relocated beavers are helping restore disappearing wetland habitat along the San Pedro River in a new project by Arizona Game and Fish.

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jul 4

From @raystern: A nonprofit legal group is challenging a $2 million state appropriation to horse racing, making it clear in an email to the @AZAGMayes' Office this wouldn't be its first rodeo... azcentral.com/story/news/pol… via @azcentral

sbarchenger's tweet card. A judge's ruling "provides a perfect example of the problematic nature of these horse-racing appropriations," attorneys told the AZ attorney general.

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jul 3

AZ Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick: "Due process is the most foundational legal principle protecting individual liberty in Western civilization. It dates back to the Magna Carta. It does not deserve to be in quote marks." azcentral.com/story/news/loc… By @taylorseely95 @azcentral

sbarchenger's tweet card. Asked what a world without judicial independence would look like, Justice Clint Bolick offered an ominous answer. "It looks like authoritarianism."

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Mary Jo Pitzl@maryjpitzl · Jul 3

Trump-backed Big Beautiful Bill passes. Here's how Arizona's GOP congressmen voted azcentral.com/story/news/pol… via @azcentral

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jul 3

I got to guest host The Gaggle ⁦@azcpodcasts⁩ with ⁦@maryjpitzl⁩ this week, talking to Arizona ⁦@GovernorHobbs⁩ on the state’s bipartisan budget, what she’s gotten done in 3 years, and looming funding cuts from the feds. azcentral.com/story/news/pol…

sbarchenger's tweet card. Gov. Katie Hobbs joins The Gaggle to talk about what she passed, her relationship across the aisle and her plans heading into a reelection year.

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jul 2

From @GantzTori: "A series of bills @GovernorHobbs signed into law this year addresses those issues by playing into the priorities of far-right organizations which have shaped Trump-era domestic policy." lookoutnews.org/policies-favor…

sbarchenger's tweet card. The bills identified by LOOKOUT and Arizona Mirror echo language from groups like The Heritage Foundation.

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jul 1

From @maryjpitzl on @azdemparty drama: "But given increasing concerns about the state party's spending patterns, coupled with scant fundraising, it appears to be a rebuke of the party chair." azcentral.com/story/news/pol… via @azcentral

sbarchenger's tweet card. Top Arizona Democrats censured party Chair Robert Branscomb and moved campaign operations out of his control ahead of a potential vote to remove him.

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jun 30

Birthright citizenship: What’s next for Arizona after Supreme Court limits injunctions? "This is not over yet, not by a long shot," @AZAGMayes says. azcentral.com/story/news/pol… By @stephanie_murr via @azcentral

sbarchenger's tweet card. The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a win in his birthright citizenship case, but Attorney General Kris Mayes may have found a loophole.

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jun 30

From day drinking on a boat to how old you have to be to buy cigs... and other laws that don't involve vices.

MMary Jo Pitzl@maryjpitzl · Jun 30

These 5 new Arizona laws will affect your life. Here's what they do azcentral.com/story/news/pol… via @azcentral

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Stacey Barchenger@sbarchenger · Jun 27

Improvements coming to @ChaseField after Arizona @GovernorHobbs signs @Diamondbacks funding bill azcentral.com/story/news/pol… via @azcentral (photo courtesy Hobbs' office)

sbarchenger's tweet image. Improvements coming to @ChaseField after Arizona @GovernorHobbs signs @Diamondbacks funding bill azcentral.com/story/news/pol… via @azcentral (photo courtesy Hobbs' office)

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