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Arizona Capitol Times veteran reporter Jim Small talks about the state’s serious budget issues and what to expect in the next few weeks from the Legislature in part 1 of Channel 5’s special report “Arizona’s Cash Crisis.”

Years ago, an old adobe house in Paradise Valley was known as a place where politicians and community leaders gathered for Mexican food, beer and cross-party solidarity.

If necessity is the mother of invention, a slumping economy fathered a state agency’s need to implement electronic audits of property management companies amid growing concerns of fraud.

The last time intercity passenger trains served Madison, Wisconsin’s capital city, students at the University of Wisconsin campus there were protesting the Vietnam War. The trains stopped running when Amtrak took over passenger service around the country in 1971. But in January, the federal government announced it would give the state $810 million in stimulus money to return passenger trains to Wisconsin’s second-biggest city for the first time in more than four decades.

On the surface, it seemed like a no-brainer to build a new Health Sciences Education Building for Arizona’s three state universities.

Montezuma Castle near Camp Verde is an enigma.

The great Aztec chief Montezuma would never have seen the structure on the cliff walls. It certainly is not a castle, but merely secure living quarters for a long-gone people.