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Sept. 11 remembrance to be held at Arizona Capitol
A remembrance ceremony on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks will be held Sunday evening outside the State Capitol in Phoenix.
Redistricting panel interviews mapping consultant applicants, delays decision
Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission interviewed four mapping consultant applicants Friday, but after nearly nine hours of interviews, public comments and closed-door discussion, the group adjourned without making a decision.
Education advocates mulling tax increases, major reforms
With a temporary sales tax increase set to expire in 2013, education advocates are looking to ask voters for another way to fund schools.
But though several organizations are considering ballot measures for the 2012 election, no one is quite sure what those proposals will look like or what taxes would be raised.
Memorial to 9/11 preaches vengeance and tolerance
Matthew Salenger etched 54 phrases in a circular piece of steel, building Arizona's Sept. 11 memorial one story at a time. He wanted everyone's story to be told. Salenger thought that all of those thoughts could coexist peacefully on a public memorial. He was wrong.
Phoenix, Tucson losing homeland security money
Phoenix is losing $3 million in federal grant money designed to help urban areas respond to and prevent terrorist attacks.
The 2010 Census Puzzle With so much money and power on the line, big cities dispute wildly varying counts
Some of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 Census data poses a puzzle. The Bureau found far fewer people in many major cities than its own estimates had found a year earlier. Now the Census Bureau and cities are debating which numbers are closer to the truth. No one knows for sure — and no one may ever know for sure.
Mentally ill worry after Giffords shooting
For some Tucsonans touched by the tragedy of Jan. 8, sorrow was tinged with a sense of dread.
Kavanagh finally wins crusade to significantly alter 9/11 monument
Five years after it became a political football in a gubernatorial race and four years after it was initially altered, the state’s Sept. 11 monument was once again the target of a Republican lawmaker with a personal connection to the terrorist attacks.
Horne takes on Bloomberg over gun-show sting
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne says New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg overstepped his power in authorizing investigators to run an undercover sting operation at a Phoenix gun show.
NYC mayor conducts gun-sale sting in Arizona
Weeks after the shooting in Tucson, sellers at an Arizona gun show allowed undercover investigators hired by New York City to buy semiautomatic pistols even after they said they probably couldn't pass a background check, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday.
Interest group: High-speed rail would create jobs, relieve traffic congestion
A high-speed rail line between Phoenix and Tucson would create jobs and relieve traffic congestion, an interest group contends.
