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Renee Bahl, the new executive director of the Arizona State Parks Board, carved her name 10 years ago in a historic adobe wall at the San Rafael Ranch in Santa Cruz County. And that doesn't sit well with one state legislator who says the act should have kept her from being selected by the seven-member Board.
"Bahl should be fully questioned about her vandalism of state historic properties, and rejected as a poor choice for this important job," Tucson
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The state parks department sent out the following news release this morning, announcing that "closed" signs were being taken down at state parks. The Arizona Republic's Casey Newton reports that some campers had already been evicted as a state government shutdown loomed. But after state workers were told to stay at their jobs, the parks department moved quickly to let people know their favorite haunts would be open for the upcoming holiday weekend.
Unlike many state expe