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Senate, Hopi tribe, power outages, federal funding
Oct 27, 2023

Hopi leader tells panel that red tape, financial hurdles put aid out of reach

The chairman of the Hopi tribe told a Senate panel this week that promises of federal funding remain just that – promises – for smaller tribes for whom the money is inaccessible because of bureaucratic and financial hurdles.

fish, Mexico, Biden administration, totoaba
Jul 20, 2023

U.S. criticizes Mexico over protection of vaquitas, stops short of sanctions

Mexico is not living up to its responsibility to protect the threatened totoaba fish and the critically endangered vaquita, a small porpoise of which there are only around a dozen left in the Gulf of California, the Biden administration said this week.

Fry's, merger, grocery stores, Smith's, Kroger, Fry's Food,
Jan 19, 2023

Committee moves bill to scrap sales tax on food

A bill that would cut municipal taxes on food got initial approval from the House Ways and Means committee on Wednesday.  

Sep 25, 2020

Access to water enables agriculture to meet consumer needs

A resilient, local agriculture industry is essential to food security in times of crisis. Let’s be sure our decisions are the right ones and that they don’t jeopardize that system. We may well regret it the next time we face adversity.

Jan 21, 2020

Bill intends to penalize gross stunts with food

It may be gross to take the lid off a quart of ice cream, lick it, and then put it back on the shelf of a grocery store.

Christina Corieri (Photo by Jenna Miller/Arizona Capitol Times)
Nov 20, 2017

Christina Corieri: Childhood musical sparks life of public policy

Christina Corieri, a senior policy adviser to Gov. Doug Ducey, found her passion for politics after her parents made her watch “1776,” a musical about the Declaration of Independence.

A client of Phoenix Mission Rescue who works at Mission Possible Cafe prepares a meal on November 8. (Photo by Ellen O'Brien/Arizona Capitol Times)
Nov 13, 2017

New Capitol area restaurant on mission to rescue

The new Mission Possible Cafe is owned and operated by Phoenix Rescue Mission, which is using the restaurant to give clients who are transitioning from addiction or homelessness essential job experience in food service.

Sep 19, 2016

Apache County had worst ‘food insecurity’ in U.S.; state fared poorly

Food advocacy groups said Apache County children had the least reliable access to healthy food in the nation in 2014, when 41.5 percent of children in the county were deemed to be “food insecure.”

Mar 16, 2015

Cash assistance limits dropped to lowest in the nation

Needy families in Arizona will soon be cut off from cash assistance meant to help the poorest parents pay for housing, food and expenses if they’ve received money from a federal program for 12 months or more.

Oct 31, 2013

Cuts to food stamp benefits hit more than 1 million Arizonans Friday

More than 1.1 million Arizonans who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – better known as food stamps – will see their benefits reduced Friday in a long-planned national cut.

Sep 19, 2013

Phoenix to begin phasing out ‘emergency’ sales tax on food

The nation’s sixth-largest city is ready to begin phasing out an “emergency” sales tax on food that was added in 2010 to address a massive budget deficit.

May 24, 2013

TPT plan gets Arizona closer, but not close enough for online sales tax

Even if Gov. Jan Brewer’s sales tax reform bill passes this year, Arizona will still have some work to do before it can reap the benefits of proposed federal legislation allowing states to collect sales taxes for online purchases.

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