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Home>Colton Gavin, Cronkite News Service

Colton Gavin, Cronkite News Service

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Recent Articles from Colton Gavin, Cronkite News Service

education May 5, 2014

Report: Arizona had steepest higher-ed cuts, highest tuition increases

Arizona had the nation’s steepest per-student cuts in state aid to higher education and the highest rates of tuition increase from pre-recession funding levels until today, according to a new report.

AZ/DC April 10, 2014

Nevada, Arizona officials hold informal Interstate 11 meeting

WASHINGTON – Supporters of the proposed Interstate 11 met Wednesday in Washington where they expressed optimism about the future of the long-discussed highway that could link Phoenix and Las Vegas... […]

AZ/DC March 25, 2014

Groups chart alternative immigration reform course for states

Progressive groups said Monday that the pendulum on state-driven immigration reform has swung back from efforts like Arizona’s SB 1070, creating a climate that makes it possible to push for alternative immigration reforms.

AZ/DC March 19, 2014

DNC chair: Arizona an emblem of GOP outreach problems

A year after the Republican Party unveiled plans to attract women and minority voters, a national Democratic leader insisted the GOP is still “out of touch,” citing the party’s actions in Arizona as examples.

AZ/DC March 5, 2014

Report: Both parties have ‘work cut out for them’ to reach Hispanic vote

Arizona Hispanic voter engagement has not kept pace with the growth of the Latino population, but that is poised to change and political parties need to be ready to take advantage, a new report says.

AZ/DC March 4, 2014

Government shutdown cost Arizona $27 million at national parks

Arizona saw a $27 million drop in spending at its national parks during October’s partial federal government shutdown, with $17 million in losses at Grand Canyon National Park alone, according to a new report.

AZ/DC March 3, 2014

Voting Rights Act rewrite would rid AZ of federal ‘pre-clearance’

The rewrite of the Voting Rights Act currently being debated in Congress would free Arizona from nearly 50 years of strict federal oversight to changes in its voting laws.

An A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft from the 124th Operations Support Flight flying over Utah in early 2012. The Pentagon wants to retire the 40-year-old close-support fighter jets as part of its budget-cutting. (Photo by Staff Sgt Stephany Richards/U.S. Air Force)
AZ/DC February 25, 2014

Pentagon to cut A-10 jets, a Davis-Monthan Air Force Base mainstay

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Monday that the Pentagon will retire the A-10 Thunderbolt fighter jet, a fixture of the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson for decades.

February 13, 2014

Solar-industry jobs picture not so sunny in Arizona in 2013, report says

WASHINGTON – Arizona posted the second-highest number of solar-industry jobs in the nation for the second year in a row in 2013, despite losing 1,242 jobs from a year earlier, according to a new report.

AZ/DC January 29, 2014

Tucson victim of human trafficking shares story, message in Capitol

WASHINGTON – For those who think slavery exists only in history books, Tucson resident Beth Jacobs has a message. “Trafficking does not discriminate. It will find you at home, at church, or on the Internet,” said Jacobs, who said she was forced into prostitution as a teenager. “It can find you anywhere.”

First lady Michelle Obama and guests listen as President Barack Obama gives State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. Front row, from left are, Sabrina Simone Jenkins, Craig, Remsburg, Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg, first lady Michelle Obama, Misty DeMars and Jill Biden. Second row, from left are, Jeff Bauman, Carlos Arredondo, Amanda Shelly, Nick Chute and John Soranno. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
AZ/DC January 29, 2014

Five Arizonans among 24 people sitting with first lady for State of the Union

When she got a call Friday inviting her to come to the White House and meet with first lady Michelle Obama, Gilbert resident Amanda Shelley “thought I was being pranked by my friends.”

Organizets estimated that as many as 600,000 people braved bitter cold weather to attend the annual March for Life in Washington to protest abortion rights in the country. (Cronkite News Service photo by Colton Gavin)
AZ/DC January 23, 2014

Arizonans join Roe v. Wade anniversary protest in D.C.

Bitter cold weather may have canceled the 5K run/walk and slightly decreased expected crowds, but it did little else to dampen the enthusiasm of the estimated hundreds of thousands at Wednesday’s 41st March for Life.

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