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In Arizona, 21 percent of the people receiving health insurance through the exchange established by Obamacare are children.That’s easily the nation’s highest proportion of children getting insured through Obamacare, and on its face, it seems like a good thing — kids are getting insured in a state with notoriously high…

Six state employees were fired last month after an investigation into the thousands of ignored Child Protective Services cases, but five of those employees say it wasn’t their fault.The five women held a press conference Wednesday with their attorney, explaining that they were just doing what they were told by…

I’m a pocha and my husband is a gabacho (by the way, we loved your explanation in your book on why Mexicans and Irish get along so well — it really explained a lot about our marriage). We had the rehearsal dinner for our wedding catered by one of our…

At BC Wellness Center, a small retail shop in Black Canyon City, two black vending machines sit side by side behind a counter, where they can be accessed only by employees. Instead of Famous Amos cookies or soda pop, packets of buds and various cannabis-infused edibles and juices sit tucked…

Describing Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s scandal-a-second administration, Horne’s Republican primary foe, former Arizona Department of Gaming director Mark Brnovich recently referenced the ’60s bard born Robert Zimmerman. “If you’ve ever listened to the song ‘Desolation Row’ by Bob Dylan, every day ‘the circus is in town’ when Tom Horne…

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona is looking into the program known as “Project ROSE,” which involves sending suspected prostitutes to a church-based diversion program as an option to avoid jail.The ACLU has filed records requests seeking a wealth of information on the program, which is a collaboration between…

Being drunk in public is not a crime, according to an Arizona Appeals Court decision.The court was considering the case of a man cited for public intoxication in Scottsdale in December 2011, and the three-member panel unanimously ruled that state law has a specific ban on city ordinances outlawing public…

Phoenix criminal-defense attorney Dwane Cates was robbed at gunpoint inside his office last month.Cates says if the men are caught, he’ll fight for a “second chance” for those robbers and ask that they be placed on probation if it’s their first offense…

The monthly real estate reports from Arizona State University’s Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice have suggested for several months that Millennials aren’t buying homes in the Phoenix area.This month’s report includes more evidence this is true…

Arizona is leading the nation in both cuts to higher-education funding and increases in tuition costs since 2008.The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities looked at pre-recession levels of higher-ed funding and tuition costs in all 50 states. Though a vast majority of states made both funding cuts and tuition…

The American Legion, a veterans service organization, is calling for the resignations of U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and two others, largely due to the allegations of veterans dying on a waiting list at the Phoenix VA health care system.”The disturbing reports coming from the Phoenix VA Medical…

There are a lot of people in Arizona who’d rather live somewhere else.According to polling done by Gallup, 38 percent of the Arizonans they polled said they’d like to move to another state. Only 11 other states had higher percentages of people who wanted to leave…

Phoenix fast food workers were outside a South Phoenix Burger King this morning calling for a $15 hourly wage.Arizona’s minimum wage is currently $7.90 an hour, while Democrats in Congress are currently trying to get the federal minimum wage up to $10.10…