Tag: Carlyle Begay
(Note: This story comes from the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting through a Creative Commons license. AZCIR is a nonprofit investigative newsroom.) Less than 14 percent of the roughly $333,000 spent to...
Arizona law helps tribal members get birth certificates
On second thought: playing the reconsideration game
Democrats were smitten when the House voted down Democratic Sen. Carlyle Begay’s bill to expand Empowerment Scholarship Accounts to all students on Native American reservations. Democrats have historically voted en...
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Legislature approves vouchers for all reservation students
The Arizona Legislature has approved a bill that makes all children living on Indian reservations qualified for private school vouchers. Senate Bill 1332 is designed to give children on reservations...
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Begay sold out for 1 mile
Ducey signs $9.1B Arizona budget plan that cuts spending
Dems say Begay betrayed party with decisive votes for GOP budget
Lawmakers work all night to pass budget
Arizona lawmakers pulled an all-nighter and worked well past sunrise Saturday morning to approve a $9.1 billion budget proposal after Republican leadership spent the day rounding up the votes to...
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Lawmakers sponsor competing bills in battle between microbreweries and distributors
Frustrated by a fight between microbreweries and alcohol distributors and seeing no end in sight, three Arizona lawmakers signed on as cosponsors of two competing bills that accomplish conflicting goals....
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Senators aim to increase eligibility for school-choice accounts
A political battle could be in the making, as two state senators have separate proposals that could make thousands more children eligible for a program that provides public money for...
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Who’s hot, who’s not heading into 2015
Gov. Elect Doug Ducey (Photo by Evan Wyloge/Arizona Capitol Times) WHO’S HOT DOUG DUCEY Arizona’s first wide-open governor’s race in 12 years was the marquee event...
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Begay overtakes Peshlakai’s lead in LD7 Senate race
Sen. Carlyle Begay, D-Ganado, has overtaken Rep. Jamescita Peshlakai’s lead in the Democratic Senate race in Legislative District 7. When votes began pouring in, Peshlakai, a Democrat from Cameron, held...
