Katie Campbell and Carmen Forman//February 19, 2019//

After House Speaker Rusty Bowers created a kerfuffle by pushing a bill that threatened to tank Arizona’s efforts to sign onto a multi-state drought plan and craft a similar intrastate...

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Bowers yanks contentious water bill that threatened drought plan