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Feds Give Arizona Teachers a Raise, Bailing Out the Cheapskate State

By Elizabeth Stuart
Oct 7, 2016

More than 1,100 Maricopa County educators could get a salary bump next year thanks to a $60 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant, secured by the Maricopa County Education Service Agency, was one of 13 awarded nationwide as part of a federal program to improve teacher...
Old Glorious: Thousands of Arizonans Wave the Flag for Donald Trump in Prescott

By Elizabeth Stuart
Oct 5, 2016

More than 10,000 people schlepped to the Prescott Valley Events Center Tuesday to see Donald Trump in the flesh. Fans started lining up for the rally — Trump's sixth appearance in Arizona — at 9 p.m. Monday. There wasn't enough room inside, so several thousand watched the Republican presidential nominee...
Vice-Presidential Nominee Mike Pence Buffs Donald Trump's Image at Mesa Megachurch

By Elizabeth Stuart
Sep 23, 2016

Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence largely sidestepped politics at a low-key question-and-answer session at a Mesa megachurch on Thursday, choosing instead to focus on more personal matters. Before a crowd of about 900 people at Living Word Bible Church, the Indiana governor described Republican running mate Donald Trump as a...
Protesters Cry Fowl in Tussle with Maricopa County Over Stinky Egg Ranch

By Elizabeth Stuart
Sep 22, 2016

Hickman's Family Farms' Tonapah egg ranch stinks — in a literal sense. And that, a group of downwind residents argue, should preclude the farm's vice president of sales, Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman, from having a say in the county's air-quality control. Hickman was appointed to the five-member Maricopa County Board of Supervisors...
Arizona's 'Slut-Shaming Preacher' Arrested for Assault

By Elizabeth Stuart
Sep 21, 2016

A street preacher infamous for condemning yoga pants and tramping around the University of Arizona campus hollering "You Deserve Rape" was arrested Tuesday after allegedly kicking a woman in the chest. Dean Saxton, a Christian who calls himself Brother Dean, was booked into the Pima County Jail, charged with misdemeanor assault,...

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