Drought Will Have Lasting Consequences For Western Ranching, Farming, Food
Whenever it has rained or snowed in the West this winter, ranchers and farmers have wondered whether the new moisture has been significant enough to break the drought and get […]
Rally Aims To Save Publicly Funded Political Campaigns
Meanwhile, Opposition Group Has Collected $145,000, Signatures For Ballot Measure
State Plans To Track, Airlift Mountain Lions
Earlier Decision To Slay Animals Is Scrapped
Audit Clears Medical Board Of Nearly All Complaints
Lawmakers Still Concerned About Patient Harm
House Members Clear Their Desks, Ready For Senate Bills
In marathon sessions, House members worked late on March 11 and 15 to finish work on 317 of their bills. They spent nearly 14 hours on the floor over the […]
Ways And Means Approves Bills To Control School Desegregation Spending
Rep. Steve Huffman, R-26, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is making another attempt to get a handle on the costs school districts incur to address desegregation and […]
High Court Declines To Review Alt-Fuels Suit
By declining to accept review of the case, the Arizona Supreme Court has let stand two lower-court rulings that say several plaintiffs seeking damages over the state’s alternative-fuels subsidy program […]
ACC Supports FCC In Phone Competition Dispute
The Arizona Corporation Commission voted unanimously to support a bid to stay a federal court order that could affect the telephone service of as many as 100,000 Arizona households and […]
Napolitano Orders State Agencies To Prepare For Aging Population
Governor Napolitano has ordered state agencies to prepare for 2020, when, she says, more than 25 per cent of Arizonans will be older than 60. And, she said, by 2011, […]
Tombstone
George Whitwell Parsons was born in Washington D.C. on August 6, 1850. He initially studied to be a banker, but the allure of the mining boom in the Southwest led […]
Senate Leaders Agree — They’re At A Budget Impasse
Senate leaders from both parties said on March 16 they were at an impasse after a month of closed-door talks on a state budget for the fiscal year that starts […]
Forget Labels, It’s A Person’s Philosophy That Matters
The terms nonpartisan and bipartisan are frequently used in political discourse and are intended to be positive descriptions. For example, city elections are often touted as being nonpartisan, as if […]