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	<title>Arizona Capitol Times &#187; 2013 &#187; January &#187; 14</title>
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		<title>Brewer stresses competition in State of the State&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things are better now than they have been at any point since Gov. Jan Brewer took office in 2009 amid a crippling recession and fiscal crisis. But the governor said they can be better still, and stressed the need for Arizona to be more competitive.
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		<title>Brewer plan would tie school funding to student achievement&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Grado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a page from higher education, Gov. Jan Brewer announced today she wants to install a system in which public schools would earn some of their funding based on student achievement. 
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		<title>3 protesters arrested in Arizona House lobby on opening day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three protesters have been arrested in the lobby of the Arizona House of Representatives as Gov. Jan Brewer prepared to present her annual State of the State address.
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		<title>Brewer drops AHCCCS bombshell in state of the state&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Duda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a surprising announcement that may mark the beginning of her fiercest battle with the Legislature in years, Gov. Jan Brewer opened the 2013 legislative with a bang when she announced she will seek a full expansion of Arizona’s Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act.
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		<title>51st Arizona Legislature begins session</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona's 51st Legislature has opened in Phoenix with sessions in the House of Representatives and Senate.]]></description>
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		<title>A taste of what&#8217;s to come</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yellow Sheet Report</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brewer didn’t offer a lot of specifics, but she was clear-eyed about two policy items she will pursue this session: money for K-12 education and simplifying the state’s sales tax system. Brewer was the main speaker at today’s annual legislative forecast luncheon organized by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce.]]></description>
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		<title>Fiscal crisis past, Legislature still to be frugal in 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a fiscal crisis that forced billions of dollars in state government cuts mainly over, the Arizona Legislature enters its 2013 session Monday with a budget surplus but little appetite among majority Republicans to loosen the purse strings.

The state has socked away about $450 million in a rainy day fund and has more than $1 billion in total surplus going into the budget year that begins July 1.]]></description>
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		<title>Brewer to lay out 2013 goals to Legislature</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Jan Brewer plans Monday to lay out her vision and priorities for Arizona in her annual State of the State address.<br /><br />

Brewer's speech on the opening day of the legislative session will be her fourth.]]></description>
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		<title>Tempe Democrat recycling old bills, hoping Legislature eventually will pay attention&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Ed Ableser came out of the gate sprinting — pre-filing 17 bills before the session began.

But after seven years in Legislature’s Democratic minority, previously as a member of the House, he has learned to temper his hopes of actually getting them signed into law.]]></description>
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		<title>Experts say more money for mental health  may not prevent mass killings&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After mass shootings at each of those places came the questions of what role mental illness played and what reforms can be made to mental-health policy to prevent such shootings in the future.]]></description>
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