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Former Page school chief pleads guilty to theft
Former Page Unified School District Superintendent Greg Conway, 57, of Mesa, pleaded guilty Dec. 17 to theft and agreed to pay $85,000 in restitution, Attorney General Terry Goddard announced. Conway […]
Tomb of memories
One day when Ed Schieffelin was heading out for some prospecting, a friend asked where he was going. Ed replied he was going to the hills “to look for some […]
PR firm changes name, adds partners
Hamilton, Gullett, Davis & Roman, a prominent Arizona strategic communications and public affairs firm, is changing its name to reflect a reorganization and expansion of the six-year-old firm.The new name […]
‘Frost/Nixon’ provides drama with a documentary feel
Richard Nixon (Frank Langella, right) and Michael Sheen (David Frost) in Imagine Entertainment’s “Frost/Nixon.” At first glance, a movie about an interview doesn’t seem like the type of cinematic fare […]
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Education• John Murphy, PharmD, associate dean of academic and professional affairs at the UofA College of Pharmacy, has been elected president of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.Murphy has nearly […]
Guv’s meet-and-confer order stirs anti-union pot
Vu Nguyen, a Service Employees International Union organizer, hands a flyer to ADEQ employee Warren Mason (right). The executive order giving state workers the ability to unionize and regularly meet […]
Election officially over as Arizona electors cast votes for McCain
D. Michael Rappaport signs the electoral ballot with John McCain’s name on it. Congress meets Jan. 8 to count all 538 electoral votes. The likely outcome, 173 for McCain, 365 […]
HOAs are not private governments
George K. Staropoli in his recent commentary, “Just what is the Goldwater Institute trying to say,” exhibits a deep misunderstanding of both the Institute’s reform proposals and constitutional law when […]
Budget crisis calls for fiscal pragmatism
Facing an enormous revenue shortfall, the current secretary of state and soon to be governor, Jan Brewer, has expressed her potential openness to raising taxes. Meanwhile the outgoing speaker of […]
‘Soldier’s soldier’ Salazar takes command at AZ National Guard
Gen. Hugo Salazar is the first Latino to lead the Guard in Arizona. It was 1983 when Hugo Salazar was watching television and saw one of the Army’s famous “Be […]
Courts block school mergers on voting technicality
School districts across the state are trading their merger plans for court papers after a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled in favor of a claim filed by Phoenix elementary […]
Gov signs order allowing workers to unionize
Gov. Janet Napolitano has signed an executive order allowing state workers to unionize and meet with state agency directors quarterly to discuss a variety of labor issues, a move that […]
