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Families Divided: Left behind, a teenager tries to hold on to life in America
Editor’s note: This is the first in a continuing series of stories written by advanced journalism students at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State […]
Divided Families: American at heart: Family struggles to start over in Mexico
IXTAPAN DE LA SAL, Mexico — Hector and Marcos are about as American as two young men can be.They wear jeans and T-shirts. They are rarely without their cell phones. […]
Tight budgets, rising costs squeeze states
Like an American tourist in Europe, states are seeing their dollars just don’t go as far as they used to.Not only was the amount of tax revenue states collected during […]
Goldwater Institute vows appeal on $97 million tax rebate
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge on April 2 upheld the constitutionality of a $97 million tax rebate granted by the city of Phoenix to lure the development of an […]
Audit: Mental health program conditions worsen
Six months after the state hired Magellan Health Services to take control of Maricopa County’s failing mental health program, treatment of the mentally ill has grown worse, according to an […]
Liquor sales down, more DUI laws on the way
Gary Maughan, franchise holder of the popular sports bar and restaurant Famous Sam's, started to notice a drop in liquor sales late last year – right around the time that […]
Crunch time looms for English learner program
Challenges include money, space, teachers, segregated instruction
Reverse 911 in danger of shutting down
A lack of funding could force officials to hang-up on Maricopa County’s reverse 911 system by July. The system, which calls people with a recorded message to alert them of […]
Headlines from the Past
This week five years ago (March 28, 2003):Sexual assault bill squeaks out of SenateA bill that would require health-care professionals to provide victims of sexual assault with information about emergency […]
Bills to promote recycling
Bills promoting recycling of bottles and cans, disposable bags and electronics are going nowhere this legislative session.One Democratic sponsor and a lobbyist for a conservation group said that’s because the […]
Bill aims to help disabled students locate learning tools they need
Cradling a phone to his ear, insurance agent Dan Bailey asks a prospective client a series of background questions, briskly typing the answers.No words appear on a screen; instead, the […]
