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Clean Elections gives Munsil $80,000 to offset poll impact
Less than one week before the primary elections, the Citizens Clean Elections Commission voted to additionally fund Republican candidate for governor Len Munsil, and also to ask that unspent money... […]
Hand-count audits unlikely for primary
Proposed procedural changes await fed OK
GOP primary could change Senate landscape
Conservatives, moderates square off in 3 districts
Phoenix group, lawmakers help kids get school clothes, backpacks
Service with a smileSen. Linda Gray, R-10, fits 6-year-old Blanca Collazo into a new backpack at the philanthropy center of the Kindergartners from Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School got new... […]
State audit faults Education Department
A legislative watchdog agency says it found widespread security weaknesses in the state Department of Education’s computer systems, including flaws that left Social Security numbers and other sensitive data on... […]
Arizona receives a B-minus in new academic standards report
Here is a breakdown on how Arizona fared in a report on academic standards produced by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation of Washington D.C. English-B Standards-based teaching and learning: language... […]
Report: Half of states fall short on academic standards
More than half the states received “D” or “F” grades overall for their academic standards for teaching English, math, science, and U.S. and world history to elementary and high school... […]
Bush picks Arizonan for Transportation secretary
President Bush has chosen Mary Peters, a former federal highway administrator, to succeed Norman Mineta as secretary of transportation, a senior administration official said in Washington on Sept. 5. Mr.... […]
Immigration ordinances: Some towns target landlords
Sweeping new immigration laws in Colorado and Georgia may be the toughest state actions yet, but more than a dozen local governments are taking an even harder line that in... […]
Feds seize 135,000 pair of bogus shoes
Federal agents in Arizona have seized thousands of pairs of fake Nike sneakers and charged six men in what is being called one of the largest smuggling rings in recent... […]
First Issue Issues
The first issue of our paper carrying the Arizona Capitol Times flag was published on Wednesday, June 2, 1982. The cost was 50 cents. A note in a box on... […]
FDA ruling on ‘morning-after pill’ puts pharmacists in crossfire
The latest fireworks over the “morning-after pill” weren’t in Congress, or at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but in Kent, Wash., at a recent meeting of the normally obscure... […]
