Brewer vetoes bill making gold legal tender
Source: SF Gate
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 19:19:37 -0700 | political-news
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill late Thursday that would have made Arizona the second state in the nation to recognize gold and silver as legal tender. Brewer said she shared concerns with the measure's proponents about a declining...
County attorney blocked from Horne campaign case
Source: SF Gate
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 17:11:04 -0700 | political-news
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Thursday blocked a campaign finance violation case against Arizona's attorney general, saying it was improperly brought by the county attorney's office. Judge John Rea 's ruling leaves an uncertain road ahead for the...
Kaiser workers to stay in service employees union
Source: Arizona Republic
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-03 00:26:04 -0700 | political-news
Thousands of workers at health care giant Kaiser Permanente have voted again to remain with the Service Employees International Union rather than switch to a smaller rival...The vote was a replay of an election from nearly three years ago...Both unions...
CBS Highlights FBI's Latest Benghazi Development; NBC Yawns
Source: Newsbusters
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 15:58:18 -0700 | political-news
Taking a cue from Boston, the FBI is now releasing photographs from last year's attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi...The FBI wants to speak to three unidentified men who were on the grounds of the U.S. diplomatic compound in...
Lincoln funeral train mystery solved
Source: USA Today
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 22:05:30 -0700 | political-news
EDT May 1, 2013 For years, scholars have puzzled over the precise color of train car that carried the body President Abraham Lincoln back to Illinois after his assassination. The man from Minnesota had something that model train enthusiast Wayne...
School's 'Redneck Day' sparks anger
Source: USA Today
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 22:05:28 -0700 | political-news
EDT May 1, 2013 The event meant to build school spirit at Queen Creek High School instead has angered civil rights leaders in Arizona. When members of the student council at an Arizona high school organized a schoolwide "Redneck Day"...
Phoenix pro-immigration march Wed. night
Source: Chandler Republic
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 11:11:02 -0700 | political-news
The Arizona Comprehensive Immigration Reform Coalition is hosting the march Wednesday night. Organizers are directing supporters to lobby lawmakers for a proposed immigration bill that would create a path toward citizenship for 11 million immigrants illegally in the country.
Just how crucial were experts for Arias defense?
Source: The Boston Globe
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 00:22:43 -0700 | political-news
As Jodi Arias' trial wraps up this week after four months of testimony, her fate rests in part on the testimony of expert witnesses who have offered up one clinical diagnosis after another for the small-town waitress and aspiring photographer...
United we stand?
Posted by: coolhand37
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 17:25:58 -0700 | political-news
During times of war, ruin or devastation, the phrase "United We Stand" is broadcast across the country to remind Americans that only when we stand together are we truly great. However, it amazes me to see the country divided when...
Salmon proposes term limits for Congress
Source: SF Gate
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-04-28 12:39:16 -0700 | political-news
Rep. Matt Salmon has proposed legislation to impose term limits on Congress, a proposal that could one day leave him without a job. Salmon's bill, which was introduced Tuesday, would restrict representatives to three two-year terms and senators to two...
Sandra Day O'Connor ready for female president, but won't say who
Source: Los Angeles Times
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-04-25 06:45:43 -0700 | political-news
Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: April 25, 2013 , 6:30 a.m. Sandra Day O'Connor is, obviously, quite familiar with historic firsts. Some 200-plus years after the nation's birth she became the first woman to...
Immigrant tuition debate challenges Arizona policy
Source: SF Gate
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-04-24 13:12:27 -0700 | political-news
Efforts to allow immigrants without legal status to pay lower tuition rates have pitted Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne against higher education leaders. Horne has warned the Maricopa County Community College District that its recent decision to allow young immigrants...
Phoenix-Talent board seats all contested
Source: Mail Tribune
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 03:41:30 -0700 | political-news
All five seats up for election May 21 on the Phoenix-Talent School District No...A fifth position is for two years to complete the term of a member who died. Those elected will be sworn in at the first board meeting...
Biden to attend MIT officer's memorial service
Source: Arizona Republic
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 12:11:28 -0700 | political-news
Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Cambridge, Mass., on Wednesday to attend the memorial service for the MIT police officer killed in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. That's according to a White House official, who was not...
Recall bid against Ariz. sheriff faces tough odds
Source: The Boston Globe
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 04:51:41 -0700 | political-news
The campaign to oust the notoriously polarizing sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix faces long odds as the lawman's critics are running short on money and relying on volunteers rather than paid professionals to round up support for a recall. Critics argue...
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