Miscellany

Arizona voters approved a paid state holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., ending a long controversy that hurt the state’s economy and its chances of getting a Super Bowl bid. Arizona voters rejected two similar holiday ballot measures in 1990, causing a backlash that reverberated across the nation and hurt the state’s economy through boycotts.

NFL owners had removed the 1993 game from the state and moved it to Pasadena after the 1990 vote. A final decision on awarding the ’96 game to Tempe, Ariz., is expected in March at the owners’ meetings.