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Democrats narrow margin on early ballots
Election Day officially is tomorrow but more people already have cast their ballots in Arizona than four years ago – though not everywhere throughout the state. New figures from the...
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Surrogate parents for students with special needs lacking statewide
More volunteers are being sought to advocate for students with special education needs who have no one in their lives to see that those needs are being met. Surrogate parents...
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Dropping juvenile crime rate turns cells to community centers
Juvenile crime plummets — experts at a loss to explain
Before its closure in 2015, Apache County’s juvenile detention center would sit a month, six weeks, maybe more without housing a single kid. The fully staffed facility was left waiting...
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Apache County had worst ‘food insecurity’ in U.S.; state fared poorly
Food advocacy groups said Apache County children had the least reliable access to healthy food in the nation in 2014, when 41.5 percent of children in the county were deemed...
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Census: Arizona lags in homes with computers, high-speed Internet access
WASHINGTON – Arizona homes trailed the nation in both their access to high-speed Internet and their computer ownership, according to a recent report from the Census Bureau. The report, released...
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434% turnout? More ballots counted than voters live in some areas
Some rural AZ precincts counted far more ballots than they have registered voters Overall voter turnout in Arizona’s primary election barely surpassed 27 percent, but in a few voting precincts...
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Navajos recall long walk to voting rights
Hale decides not to challenge Begay’s credentials for Senate
Attorney general to take no action against new senator
Newly sworn-inLD7 Sen. Carlyle Begay, D-Ganado. (Photo by Jim Small / Arizona Capitol Times.) Arizona’s attorney general has declined to take legal action to remove one...
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Apache County board chairman: “Stay out of the fight”
Newly sworn-inLD7 Sen. Carlyle Begay, D-Ganado. (Photo by Jim Small / Arizona Capitol Times.) The chairman of the Apache County Board of Supervisors told county attorneys...
