Coconino County at odds with feds over drug case payments
Coconino County has offered to repay the U.S. Justice Department $700,000 it received for prosecuting drug trafficking cases after an audit found no proof of federal involvement in the cases.
Feds could put “socially disadvantaged” farmers on Arizona county committees
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday it could appoint “socially disadvantaged” farmers in six Arizona counties where the elected county committees may be lacking in representation by women and minorities.
Taking the funds out of HURF
County officials tie highway projects to economic development prospects
A trifecta of ill-timed displays of Mother Nature’s fury during the first seven months of 2010 battered Coconino County, leaving one Flagstaff neighborhood designated a disaster area by the state and federal government.American Indian heads Coconino County supervisors
A Navajo woman from Tuba City has become the first American Indian to head the Coconino County Board of Supervisors.
‘Tea party’ T-shirts OK at Maricopa County polls
A federal judge in Phoenix has ruled that Maricopa County voters can wear "tea party" T-shirts into polling places in Tuesday's general election.
Settlement reported in tea party T-shirt case
There's reportedly a settlement in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Coconino County woman who wants to wear a tea party T-shirt when going to vote on Nov. 2.
Court hearing set on Coconino County tea party T-shirt case
A federal magistrate plans to hold a hearing Wednesday in a Phoenix courtroom on whether to order Coconino County election officials to allow a woman to wear a tea party T-shirt to polls on Nov. 2.
Federal government authorizes Ariz disaster funds
The federal government has authorized disaster assistance funds to help repair damage caused by flash floods this summer in Arizona.
Suit filed over wearing tea party T-shirt at polls
A Phoenix-based conservative think tank has filed a federal lawsuit to ensure voters get to wear their tea party T-shirts at the polls.
Arizona moving to use conservation money before vote
Arizona parks officials and local governments in the Phoenix and Flagstaff areas are moving to spend up to $52 million of land conservation money that legislators envisioned being used instead to help keep the budget in the black.
Mold-specific regulations non-existent
From the state level all the way down to the municipal level, regulations dealing specifically with mold simply don’t exist.
Is privatization the answer?
While the governor proposed eliminating the Department of Juvenile Corrections as a way to save money, one private company has said it could operate the program for slightly more than half of the agency’s fiscal 2009 budget.