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Arizona

Apr 29, 2014

Court ruling could remove uncertainty over Arizona legislative boundaries

After a year of deliberation, a federal court has ruled that the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission doesn’t have to redraw any part of the state’s legislative districts.

Apr 29, 2014

Former ASU star Andrew Walter files for Congress

Former Arizona State and NFL quarterback Andrew Walter has officially entered the Republican primary for Arizona's 9th Congressional District.

Apr 28, 2014

Board to review Arizona universities’ student fees

The board that oversees Arizona's state university system plans to take a look at fees that students pay in addition to tuition. Those fees can add up.

Apr 28, 2014

Law clears way for regulation of dry needling in physical therapy

A new law clears the way for dry needling, the use of thin needles to stimulate tight muscles, to be regulated as part of accepted physical therapy practice in Arizona.

Apr 28, 2014

Queuing up on the first day

Several candidates chatted with the media in front of the Executive Tower this morning as they prepared to bring their nominating petitions up to the secretary of state’s office.

Apr 28, 2014

Former Arizona lawmaker Stan Turley dies at age 93

Stan Turley, a native Arizonan who served more than two decades in the state Legislature and was a former Senate president and speaker of the House, has died. He was 93.

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks, as he Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, right, and Vice President Joe Biden, left, welcome the Wounded Warrior Project’s Soldier Ride to the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 17, 2014, in celebration of the seventh annual Soldier Ride. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Apr 28, 2014

Obama: US takes VA neglect claim ‘very seriously’

President Barack Obama says the U.S. will get to the bottom of whether veterans were denied help they needed at a VA hospital in Arizona.

Sen. Jeff Flake, left, R-AZ, shakes hands and speaks with Vietnam veteran Chuck Tharp, right, after a news conference where Flake and Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, discussed recent reports that dozens of VA hospital patients in Arizona may have died while awaiting medical care in the Phoenix VA Health Care System on Friday, April 18, 2014, in Phoenix. Last week's disclosures by current and former Department of Veterans Affairs employees is leading to investigations by the House Committee on Veterans Affairs and the Inspector General for the VA are looking into not only the deaths, but allegations of falsified record keeping and medical reporting. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Apr 28, 2014

Clinic opens as Phoenix VA deals with negligence allegations

A new Phoenix-area clinic that is expected to serve thousands veterans opened Saturday as local VA officials face allegations of negligence.

In this Thursday, May 16, 2013 file photo, Arizona State Sen. Rich Crandall, R-Mesa, speaks at the Capitol in Phoenix. The former state senator who headed Wyoming’s education department before a court reinstated that state’s school superintendent says he’s returning home to Arizona. Crandall was chosen for the Wyoming job by Gov. Matt Mead in the summer of 2013 but left in April 2014 after the state’s ousted superintendent claimed her job back. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
Apr 28, 2014

Ex-Wyoming education chief headed home to Arizona

Former Arizona state senator Rich Crandall who headed Wyoming's education department before a court reinstated that state's school superintendent as head of the agency says he's returning home to Arizona.

Apr 28, 2014

Supreme Court’s campaign contribution decision to have substantial impact

Pundits have alternatively saluted and denounced the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this month striking down aggregate campaign contribution limits as unconstitutional. Few, however, have addressed the decision’s impact on states, candidates, and contributors in years to come.

Apr 28, 2014

Why Arizona’s regulatory moratorium is unnecessary

We expect our drinking water to be clean and safe and our lakes, rivers and streams to be places we can fish and swim. Why is this so? Forty-four years ago on April 22, the world embarked upon a still unfinished journey to protect the environment from the unintended effects of our industrial society. The Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act are just two of the key pieces of legislation our Congre[...]

Apr 28, 2014

Cornforth’s Home and Auto Appliance

These photographs from the 1950s show Cornforth’s Home and Auto Appliance, one of Phoenix’s few local business to survive through the millennium.

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