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Arizona

Jun 17, 2014

Phoenix to vote on higher downtown parking rates

Parking rates on some downtown Phoenix streets could soon cost as much as $4 per hour during peak times.

Jun 17, 2014

Immigration heavyweight lands in Reagan’s corner

Reagan today (June 16) picked up a surprising endorsement: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is perhaps best known in the Grand Canyon State for being the primary author of S1070.

Jun 16, 2014

Challenge to Orr’s nominating signatures dropped

The Pima County Recorder’s Office on Friday determined that Republican Rep. Ethan Orr has sufficient signatures to qualify for the ballot, leading former Pima County Democratic Chair Jeff Rogers to drop his lawsuit challenging Orr’s nominating petitions and assuring Orr’s place on the Republican primary election ballot.

Jun 16, 2014

Orientation period could benefit employers dealing with health coverage

The IRS recently issued guidance intended to ease the administrative burden of offering group health coverage within 90 days of an employee’s hire date.

Jun 16, 2014

Is it responsible that America has no limits on carbon pollution from power plants?

The Earth’s climate is getting warmer, and humans are partly responsible. That’s not my opinion, that’s a fact supported by more than 97 percent of climate scientists. The outcome over the next 50 years and beyond could include massive heat waves, prolonged drought, extreme weather and the mass extinction of species.

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Jun 16, 2014

Many Arizona students will have to go with paper on new school tests

An estimated 50 percent of Arizona’s public-school students are going to use the more expensive paper versions of the Common Core achievement test.

Jun 16, 2014

Moderate Republicans challenge conservative party mates in battle for soul of GOP

The battle over the heart and soul of the Republican Party is raging in a beige, West Valley ballroom. Republican Reps. Darin Mitchell and Steve Montenegro sit on the stage with Litchfield Park City Councilwoman Diane Landis, a Republican who is challenging the incumbent team in the primary election for one of the two House seats in Legislative District 13.

Jun 16, 2014

Well, which one is it?

In the same breath that she said the name-change issue concerning Gallego has “been put to rest,” Wilcox insisted last night (June 12) at an LD24 meeting that there nonetheless “still are questions” because he has used both Gallego and Marinelarena “several times” since legally changing his surname in 2008.

Jun 16, 2014

Gold’s 1912 Buick Racer

Martin Gold arrived in the Valley around 1880 after emigrating from what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Gold was part of a generation that seemingly lived to work, and in less than two generations, the efforts of men like him transformed a wasteland into the city of Phoenix.

Jun 13, 2014

That probably couldn’t have gone worse

The Wilcox campaign was left with an omelet’s worth of eggs on its face today after a ballot challenge to Gallego that it touted turned out to be utterly without basis.

In this Feb. 21, 2013, file photo, Former Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker appears in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz. Junker, who acknowledged participating in an illegal campaign contribution scheme, faces sentencing Thursday, March 13, 2014, in federal court. Junker pleaded guilty two years ago to a federal conspiracy charge after being accused of being involved in the scheme in which Fiesta Bowl employees made illegal campaign contributions to politicians and were reimbursed by the nonprofit bowl. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Mark Henle, File)
Jun 13, 2014

Ex-Fiesta Bowl boss to start serving sentence

The former Fiesta Bowl chief executive is scheduled Friday to start serving an eight-month federal prison sentence for his acknowledged participation in an illegal campaign contribution scheme.

Jun 13, 2014

Libertarian Hess faces signature challenge

Barry Hess, the perennial Libertarian candidate for governor, fought successfully against legislation that would have required third-party candidates to collect thousands of signatures to get on the ballot. Now a challenge filed by a Republican activist alleges that he fell short of the 133 signatures he needs to run for governor.

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