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IRC Trial Wraps Up; Ruling Expected In January
A ruling is expected in January over whether the Independent Redistricting Commission met the state Constitution’s requirement to create enough competitive legislative districts, a lawyer connected with the case said.... […]
DOC Teams Seeks Additional Prison Beds
Search Includes Out Of State Public, Private Facilities
News File For The Week Of Dec. 22
Robbins & Green, P.A., a Phoenix law firm, marked its 30th year with an open house Dec. 3. Hattie Babbitt, one of the firm’s original partners, attended the event. Ms.... […]
Governor Hails Capture Of Saddam Hussein
Governor Napolitano was wrapping Christmas packages Dec. 14 when she saw a television report that American military forces had captured Saddam Hussein. “Capturing Saddam Hussein was wonderful,” she said at... […]
Audit: Sahuarita School District’s Classroom Spending Below Average
The Sahuarita Unified School District’s administrative costs “are significantly lower than the average for comparable districts,” but high transportation and plant costs meant that money available for the classrooms was... […]
Lawmaker Makes Vegas Flight — 36 Hours Late
Rep. Deb Gullett, R-Dist. 11, had reservations for a 9:45 a.m. flight on Dec. 12 to join her husband Wes for a weekend in Las Vegas, but efforts to end... […]
Snow Bowl’s First Ski Lodge
This is the first ski lodge on the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff. The photograph was taken sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s and shows the kind of... […]
Bar Codes Help DES Count Its Assets
Agency Abandons Paper Process To Track Inventory With Fewer Workers, Better Results
Arizona Prison System
Key figures in the Arizona prison system: Population • 31,146 is the number of inmates in the state prison system, consisting of 28,745 in state-operated prisons, 2,315 in privately operated... […]
States Starting To Reverse Get-Tough Prison Policies
Faced in recent years with burgeoning budget deficits, half of the legislatures in the country have rolled-back at least some of the get-tough on crime provisions of the past two... […]
New Hospital Planned For Florence
Plans are underway to open a hospital in Florence that will serve prisoners and the public. The hospital would save the state the cost of transporting sick inmates elsewhere for... […]
