Karrin Taylor Robson made the long-expected announcement Wednesday that she's running for Arizona governor for a second time ...

Evan Mecham took office in January 1987 ... to voter backlash over news the NFL would move the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona if the state rejected MLK Day. The NFL moved the Super Bowl to Pasadena ...

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 ...

"High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Term and Trials of Former Governor Evan Mecham" If you think Arizona politics are wild now ...

After Martin Luther King Jr Day was established as a federal holiday in 1986, Arizona's governor Evan Meacham decided not to extend it to the state. That kicked off a multi-year fight between ...

according to records kept by the Arizona State Library. Then-Gov. Evan Mecham loaned inauguration funds to his auto ...

Arizona was not the last state to create an ... the holdouts because of the resistance of controversial former Gov. Evan Mecham. On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive order by ...

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 ...