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Cap Times Quiz: Education edition
Education has been this year’s hottest topic in Arizona, beginning with the inauguration of Gov. Doug Ducey in January and continuing through last week’s special session on school finance. Here is a quiz to determine how closely you have been keeping up. Get all eight right and you could qualify for a choice staff position with the state Board of Education.
From Streetcar to Sky Train: Arizona Environmental Awards
Arizona Forward announced the winners of its 35th Annual Environmental Excellence Awards on Sept. 12 at Chateau Luxe in Phoenix in partnership with Salt River Project.
Tuba Trading Post
This is Tuba City’s famous trading post, built in the late 1880s in the then Mormon settlement of Tuba City. (Tuba was an English approximation of the name of the Hopi chief TIvi).
Phoenix’s Plaza Bandstand
This is a 1901 photograph of the bandstand sat City Hall Plaza, located on the block between Washington and Jefferson streets and Montezuma (First Street) and Maricopa (Second Street). The men in the photo are not identified, but written on the back of the photo is the name of J.C. Dodds. The 1903 City Directory lists Dodds as a driver for Ezra W. Thayer. That is Thayer’s hardware store across t[...]
12 years and counting: Child safety backlog continues to grow
On May 28, the director of the state Department of Child Safety acknowledged that backlogs are growing again at the agency. Greg McKay told a legislative oversight committee that the number of hotline reports the agency receives each month is greater than the number of reports the staff can close.
Shootout at Marble Canyon
Buck Lowery, owner of the pictured filling station at Marble Canyon, befriended Carl and Albert White in 1930. Lowery fed the runaway Utah brothers, aged 12 and 14 respectively, a free meal and arranged homebound transportation for them, thinking no more about the episode.
Timeline: Turbulent start for new schools chief
In January, new state Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas offered a message to state leaders: “Stop the madness.” But events since then suggest the madness was only starting.
End of session tradition: #StartYourOwnRumor
It all began in 2011, when then-House Speaker Kirk Adams used social media as a platform to fire back at the media, his critics and legislative observers about rumors that his impending congressional campaign was interfering with his duties as a legislative leader.
The Sanitary Milk Crusade
“Local Milk Fails the Standards” announced the headline of the Bisbee Daily Review on June 18, 1914. The following day more alarming news greeted residents as they read “Conditions of Milk Bad in District.”
From wine to amusement gambling: New laws you might not have noticed
Of the hundreds of bills passed by the Legislature in 2015 and signed by Gov. Doug Ducey, most avoided the public spotlight. Here is a sampling of new laws worth noting that attracted little or no attention.
Painting endangered species: Taiwanese artist to be featured at Arizona Capitol Museum
An exhibit featuring award-winning artist Chris Ho of Taiwan will be on display for several weeks at the Arizona Capitol Museum.
A Brief History of the Historian
Don’t let this picture of Sharlot Hall fool you. She may look gentle enough, but in 1926, around the time this picture wa s taken, she got the only slaughtering license ever issued to a woman and was quite proud of it. Her acclaim does not stem from this dubious distinction however, but rather from her work as a writer and a historian.
