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A Coming Storm: Arizona’s nursing shortage
Arizona’s health care system may experience some cloudy days as the state may soon face its greatest nursing shortage since the 1970s. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration, 16 states are not going to have an adequate supply of nurses by the year 2025.
Facing rising dental costs, seniors head to Mexico
Mark Bolzern traveled 3,700 miles to go to the dentist. The 56-year-old Anchorage, Alaska, native left home this spring, made a pit stop in Las Vegas to pick up a friend, and kept heading south, all the way to Los Algodones, Mexico, a small border town teeming with dental offices.
Migrant rights lawyers claim Border Patrol is destroying evidence of unsanitary holding cells
Border Patrol has been destroying “critical evidence” of conditions at holding areas despite a lawsuit calling them inhumane, lawyers for migrants are charging.
Judge rules cops did not violate rights of 3 officers when DNA samples were taken without warrant
The rights of three Phoenix police officers were not violated when investigators looking into the death of another officer took DNA samples from them, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Child Safety Department revoking group homes’ license
The state Department of Child Safety on Monday said it was moving to revoke the license of a Mesa company that runs four group homes for troubled youth in the Phoenix area.
Strings definitely attached
Borrelli’s op-ed in today’s Republic (Aug. 31) shows that conservatives aren’t in lock-step on the idea of how best to resolve the K-12 funding lawsuit. Borrelli wrote that it’s time to resolve the lawsuit by “funding for our education system with true education dollars,” and said he will propose legislation to hike funding for schools by a total of $336 million annually.
State Supreme Court Justice Rebecca White Berch formally retires
Arizona Supreme Court Justice Rebecca White Berch submitted her formal notice of retirement to Gov. Doug Ducey today, ending 17 years on the bench in which she helped decide some of Arizona’s most contentious and controversial political cases.
After King vs. Burwell: Give states more control over healthcare
Now that the dust has settled and the major legal challenges involving the Affordable Care Act are over, lawmakers and the public should focus their attention on whether the law is delivering on its original promise of healthcare affordability.
Douglas: Funding K-12 education with pot initiative ‘evil’
A voter initiative that would legalize marijuana in Arizona and add a tax to help fund education has an adamant opponent in the state superintendent of public instruction.
McCain names key campaign staff for 2016 re-election effort
Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain is gearing up for his 2016 re-election effort by naming key members of his campaign staff.
Based on a lie, late-term abortion leaves hospital staff emotionally scarred
The second trimester abortion at Good Samaritan Hospital in 2010 that left doctors and nurses in tears wasn’t necessary to save the life of Chalice Zeitner, who claimed to have late-term cancer, and her daughter Aryana was born alive and might have been saved.
Thorpe taking aim at civil forfeiture laws
It isn’t often that Republican Rep. Bob Thorpe of Flagstaff finds himself agreeing with the American Civil Liberties Union. But when it comes to cracking down on law enforcement agencies’ abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws, the conservative Republican finds himself squarely in line with the ACLU’s thinking.
