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Bisbee to AG: keep state’s nose out of bag ban
The Bisbee city attorney told Attorney General Mark Brnovich Tuesday that his community's regulations on plastic bags are none of the state's business.
Petersen asks Brnovich to probe Bisbee’s plastic bags ban
Sen. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, has filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office and asked if the City of Bisbee’s ban on single-use plastic bags violates state laws.
Bisbee plastic bags dispute could test state’s power over cities
A Republican state senator wants Attorney General Mark Brnovich to investigate -- and slap down -- the city of Bisbee for what she claims is the decision to ignore a state law prohibiting local laws on plastic bags.
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This illustration of Miss Beautiful in June appeared in a 1912 bridal advertisement for the Phelps Dodge Store in Bisbee. The ad featured such fine merchandise as onyx silk boot hose, long and short silk gloves, parasols, white and beaded bags and lingerie dresses of sheer fabrics “beautifully finished.’’
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 residents as they read “Conditions of Milk Bad in District.”
Telemedicine services cut back in Cochise and 96 other U.S. counties
Medicare will no longer cover telemedicine in Cochise County and 96 other U.S. counties because they are now considered urban areas, instead of rural ones. Because of the realignment of standard metropolitan statistical areas, about 1 million Medicare beneficiaries located in rural areas across the country will be affected, many who have been receiving healthcare with the help of telemedicine.
Bisbee approves same-sex civil unions
BISBEE ai??i?? The City Council in a former mining community-turned-artist's haven in rural southeastern Arizona voted Tuesday night to approve an ordinance to recognize civil unions for same-sex couples.
On eve of council vote, CAP says Bisbee can’t legally recognize civil unions
BISBEE ai??i?? A conservative Christian advocacy group says a former mining community-turned-artists' haven in rural southern Arizona can't legally recognize civil unions that would include same-sex couples.
Bisbee constituents largely silent on civil unions
SIERRA VISTA ai??i?? Bisbee City Council members say they're not hearing much from constituents before a scheduled vote to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples.
Wounded border agent released from hospital
A Border Patrol agent who was wounded in a shooting near the U.S.-Mexico border has been released from the hospital.
Gilmore and Salisbury’s ‘custom’ smelter
Benson was established in June 1880 by the Southern Pacific and became an important maintenance center for the railroad and the shipping point for the Bisbee and Tombstone mines, neither of which was served by rail. The town was less than three months old when, according to the Tucson Citizen, “the first shipment of copper bullion from Bisbee (arrived) in Benson, where it (was) shipped to San Fr[...]
