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Mary Shinn, Cronkite News Service

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Recent Articles from Mary Shinn, Cronkite News Service

Former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema acknowledges supporters and campaign staff during her Democratic primary victory speech. (Photo by Evan Wyloge/Arizona Capitol Times)
Home news April 30, 2013

With tough races just past, freshmen already stocking up cash for 2014

The election season is barely behind them, but freshmen Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Flagstaff, and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Phoenix, have both raised more than $300,000 toward possible re-election bids in 2014, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

Arizona is one of 21 states, and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, that have responsibility for enforcing safety and health standards for state and local governments and for private-sector operations. (Map by the Government Accountability Office)
AZ/DC April 30, 2013

GAO: Arizona safety inspectors have among highest turnover in nation

Arizona’s safety inspectors are some of the least-experienced in nation, according to a report this month by the Government Accountability Office.

AZ/DC April 23, 2013

Immigration-reform bill criticized for going too far – or not going far enough

WASHINGTON – The man behind Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration crackdown law told a Senate committee Monday that border-security provisions in the comprehensive immigration reform bill filed last week are “not serious.”

Home news April 16, 2013

Land of the free? Report says Arizona trails 10 states in overall freedom

WASHINGTON – Arizona has a reputation as a state full of mavericks and independent thinkers, but a couple of academics have bad news for state residents. We’re No. 11.

AZ/DC April 2, 2013

Federal Election Commission fines Franks’ campaign committee $14,000

WASHINGTON – The Federal Election Commission has fined Rep. Trent Franks’ campaign committee $14,000 for failing to report spending of more than $300,000, mostly on mailings, from 2009 to 2011.

Karen Bailey and Nelda Majors, Valley residents who say they have been a couple for decades, rallied in support of same-sex marriage as the Supreme Court considered arguments over Proposition 8, a California law banning such unions. (Cronkite News Service photo by Mary Shinn)
Home news March 27, 2013

Arizonans join rallies at Supreme Court for, against same-sex marriage

Karen Bailey and Nelda Majors have been a couple for more than 50 years, but at a rally outside the Supreme Court they called Tuesday their “moment in history.”

AZ/DC March 20, 2013

Airline CEOs assure senators merger will benefit consumers

The CEOs of American Airlines and US Airways told a U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday that not only would a merger of their airlines not hurt Phoenix, it could bring more international flights to the city.

Home news March 18, 2013

Survey: Women business owners in Arizona see hiring, growth

Almost half of female business owners surveyed in Arizona expect their companies to grow over the next five years, according to a report released March 8.

AZ/DC March 11, 2013

Arizona’s proof of citizenship voter registration requirement heads for Supreme Court review

WASHINGTON – To Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, the state law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration is “common sense,” not a burden.

Home news February 28, 2013

Supreme Court rally demands voting-rights protection in states like Arizona

WASHINGTON – Hundreds gathered on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to rally in support of a federal voter-protection law that governs mostly Southern states with a history of discrimination, including Arizona.

This June 27, 2012 file photo shows an American flag flying in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. Well-heeled clients pay tens of thousands of dollars to hit the legal jackpot _Supreme Court review of their appeals. But on Tuesday, the court decided to hear cases filed by two people who couldn't afford or didn't bother to hire an attorney. One was written in pencil and submitted by an inmate at a federal prison in Pennsylvania. The other was filed by a man with no telephone living on Guam. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
courts February 27, 2013

Arizona officials keep close eye as voting rights case goes to Supreme Court

When the U.S. Supreme Court hears an Alabama challenge to a federal voting-rights law Wednesday, Arizona officials and civil rights activists will be keeping a close eye on the case.

Ronald Young, an employee at Boeing’s plant in Mesa, fashions a pylon used to hold weapons on the AH64D attack helicopter (Cronkite News Service photo by Sarah Pringle)
AZ/DC February 18, 2013

Business leaders leave Washington with dim hopes of avoiding sequester, job cuts

A delegation from the Arizona Technology Council came to Washington this week hoping to persuade Congress to stop automatic spending cuts that would hurt state defense contractors and could lead to layoffs.

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