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

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 ...

A group of seven Navajos and environmentalists joined together to protest former governor Bruce Babbitt's book signing Friday night at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe. Babbitt, who was governor of ...

Flashback: After the Arizona House rejected a King holiday bill by one vote in 1986, Gov. Bruce Babbitt issued an executive order designating a paid MLK Day. Yes, but: Attorney General Bob Corbin ...

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

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 On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive order by previous Gov.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 ...