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Ruling Overturns Random Drug Tests For Firefighters
The Arizona Supreme Court on Jan. 27 overturned Mesa’s policy of randomly drug testing firefighters, ruling that the firefighters’ privacy rights trumped the city’s desire to deter and detect substance […]
State Awards New Contract To Service Uninsured Mentally Ill
Arizona has awarded a Virginia-based company a $3.1 billion contract to continue providing services to the Phoenix metropolitan area’s poor and uninsured mentally ill. ValueOptions has held the contract since […]
Hospitals Expect Extra $240 Million From Medicare Reform
Arizona hospitals could get nearly $240 million more than expected in 2004 because of the Medicare reform act signed by President Bush on Dec. 8. The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare […]
Tortoise Gets Contact Lenses; Law Changes
Anybody — even a tortoise — can apparently obtain contact lenses. Stephen Cohen, a Scottsdale optometrist, had no problem ordering contacts for his pet. All it took was eye measurements […]
Lawsuit Challenges AHCCCS Copayments For 100,000 Low-Income Recipients
Thousands of low-income Arizonans are being denied government health care or charged too much for it because the state’s Medicaid program has instituted new and increased copays that violate federal […]
State To Market Health Plan
Program Designed To Alleviate Burden On AHCCCS, SomeQuestion Competing With Private Insurers
Breast Vs. Bottle
Babies who are given breast milk for a longer period have: • Better overall health • Better cognitive and social development • Higher IQ • Stronger immune system • Lower […]
Teen Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases Are Realities That Lawmakers Must Address
To countless Arizonans, our state is the ideal place to live, work and rear a family. In many regards, it is. However, Arizona has an acute sexual health problem that […]
Legislature, Governor Launch Separate Probes Of Prison Standoff
House Speaker Jake Flake and Senate President Ken Bennett say they have selected Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley to head an investigation of the 15-day hostage standoff at Lewis Prison […]
Tombstone’s Boothill Cemetery
Here lies Lester Moore Four slugs from a 44 No Les, No More. This famous epitaph found in Tombstone’s Boothill Cemetery belongs to Lester Moore, a Wells Fargo Stage agent […]
IRC Approves Definition of ‘Competitive,’ Still Redrawing Legislative Map
The Independent Redistricting Commission is back to map-making as state appellate courts rebuffed the commission’s effort to stay a judge’s order to come up with new legislative districts by March […]
