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Swamped On Main Street
This is Main Street in Bisbee in August 1908, during one of the worst months of flooding in the town’s history. In a three-week period, Bisbee was ravaged by three separate storms.
Capitol Quotes: July 22, 2011
This week’s most outstanding utterances, gibes and quips.
The Governor’s 1912 Race — for the Train
The bald pate and rotund body seen here on the Capitol veranda is that of George W.P. Hunt, photographed on Valentine’s Day, 1912, delivering his inaugural address as the state’s first governor.
Capitol Quotes: July 15, 2011
This week’s most outstanding utterances, gibes and quips.
Building the Kaibab Bridge, 1921
The Kaibab suspension bridge over the Colorado River was to link Bright Angel Trail on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon with the Kaibab Trail on the North Rim. At the time, the only means of crossing the river between the two trails was by small canvas boat. (The closest ferry crossings were at Lee’s Ferry, upstream near the Utah border and downstream at Needles on the California border.) Const[...]
Capitol Quotes: July 8, 2011
This week's most outstanding utterances, gibes and quips.
Capitol Quotes: July 1, 2011
This week’s most outstanding utterances, gibes and quips.
Will elimination of matching funds leave a mark on state politics?
Local political consultants and operatives disagree on what effect the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the matching funds component of Arizona’s public campaign finance option will have on politics.
Capitol Quotes: June 24, 2011
This week’s most outstanding utterances, gibes and quips.
1921: The First Republican-Controlled Senate
These are the members of the 1921-1922 Arizona Senate, the first chamber of the Arizona Legislature to be controlled by Republicans. The margin was just one vote, but that was certainly better for the Republicans than the make-up of the 1919-20 Senate, which was composed entirely of Democrats.
Capitol Quotes: June 17, 2011
This week's most outstanding utterances, gibes and quips.
Capitol Quotes: June 10, 2011
“Nothing will persuade me to adopt a failed Keynesian Obama stimulus that is dragging the economy down.” — Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, on the unemployment insurance extension.
