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Ex-teacher faces possible prison for threatening Rogers
Donald Brown, a former Tucson school teacher who was arrested after threatening the life of Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, is set to be sentenced on June 6 for the July 2022 crime.
Arizona Capitol Times responds to injunction against reporter
We are strongly opposed to the Injunction Against Harassment that State Senator Wendy Rogers obtained against our reporter Camryn Sanchez.
New leadership at Arizona Capitol Times
Arizona News Service announced its new leadership team to manage the Arizona Capitol Times and its sister publications and products.
In Their Words: Art Hamiton
There are no gratuitous fights . . . every fight costs you something. And the other thing I learned was you need to know who you’re fighting because the people whose names are on the bill are some of the people who are really, really, really trying to get something done.
In Their Words: Jane Dee Hull
For almost 25 years Jane Dee Hull was in the thick of Arizona politics, governing and legislating, and yet she said she’s most proud of being proud of “very little” in her career, which speaks to her political philosophy.
Arizona Adopts a Flag
In 1921, the Tempe Normal School Cadet Company posed under the U.S. and Arizona flags with the silver cup they won in the State Cadet Rifle Match at Tucson. The... […]
Emery’s Cooperative
Although he was called “judge” in Tucson, Alfred John Emery had no legal training and never sat as a judge. The title was honorific. In fact, Emery was a dairy... […]
The Big Snow of ’49
This is Andy Matson of Pinewood Dairy standing by his truck in Flagstaff trying to make a delivery. It is February 1949 and the white wall behind him and his... […]
The Man from Scotland
In 1881, Henry Lesinsky, one of the owners of the Arizona Copper Company in Clifton, recorded the arrival of some foreign investors, “. . . a party of Englishmen and... […]
Research Station on the Colorado
This busy scene is a research camp at Pierce’s Ferry on the Colorado River in 1935. The barge, which looks as though it might once have been a ferry, is... […]
The Donofrio/Grosso Clan
Theresa settled in Philadelphia with her husband Mike, who was also an immigrant and a miner in the Pennsylvania coal fields. Charles went to Phoenix, where he earned a living... […]
The Oriental Saloon
Owned by Jim Vizina, its bar and restaurant rented to Cochise County Supervisor M.E. (Milt) Joyce, the Oriental was considered Tombstone’s finest saloon. “Last evening,” wrote the Tombstone Epitaph, about... […]
