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County mired in frivolous lawsuits, sketchy hire
Most of us have been working people all our lives. Our financial decisions are guided by common sense and good judgment – that’s what we expect from our elected officials,...
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Crash closes section of freeway from Arizona to New Mexico
Arizona Department of Transportation officials say a fiery semi-tractor trailer crash early Wednesday damaged an overpass pillar in southeastern Arizona and closed a section of Interstate...
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Hobbs vetoes bill to bar cities from taxing residential rentals
Let’s let PSPRS wither away
Lawmaker in feud with Glendale proposes pay cap for city workers
A state senator at odds with his own city government wants to cap salaries for municipal employees throughout the state, a move city officials say could hobble efforts to attract...
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Republican lawmaker takes aim at public schools
Rep. Kelly Townsend Rep. Kelly Townsend wants school district employees and board members investigated at the whim of any legislator who questions the legality of their...
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The Sanitary Milk Crusade
“Local Milk Fails the Standards” announced the headline of the Bisbee Daily Review on June 18, 1914. The following day more alarming news greeted citizens as they read: “Conditions of...
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Cochise County Attorney Allen R. English
Allen Robert English, born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1858, earned a law degree by age 19. His father was a well-to-do shipbuilder and his mother was from a pioneer Irish...
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Nick Ponder: Man about cities and towns and lobbying
Legislators’ complaints of lawbreaking by cities on the upswing
Bisbee Mayor David Smith said he and the City Council faced a tough decision after the Attorney General’s Office found the city’s plastic bag ban ordinance was illegal. The council...
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Bisbee to change disposable bag ordinance to duck budget hit
Bisbee plans to avoid a possible big budget hit by making voluntary the city’s ordinance that now prohibits retailers from providing shoppers with disposable plastic bags. The City Council’s decision...
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AG rules Bisbee bag ban illegal
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (Photo by Katie Campbell/Arizona Capitol Times) The City of Bisbee’s ban on plastic bags violates state law and must be rescinded,...
