Proponents of Proposition 123 have raised $1.75 million to open up more of Arizona’s land trust fund for sale to support education funding. 

Small businesses in Arizona want the state’s legislature to make the Copper State more welcoming to independent contractors in the coming year, the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) said. “We are declaring Arizona open for business when it comes to businesses that are able to use independent contractors,” NFIB State Director Farrell Quinlan told Arizona Business Daily.