Elizabeth Stuart
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U.S. Department of Education Gives Arizona Teachers a Raise, Bailing Out the Cheapskate State
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... → Read More
Old Glorious: Thousands of Arizonans Wave the Flag for Donald Trump in Prescott
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... → Read More
GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Mike Pence Buffs Running Mate Donald Trump's Image at Mesa Megachurch
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... → Read More
Protesters Demand Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman Stand Down in Tussle Over Stinky Egg Ranch
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... → Read More
Brother Dean, the 'Slut-Shaming Preacher,' Arrested for Assault, Banned from University of Arizona Campus
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,... → Read More
Phoenix Protesters Blast Bureau of Land Management for 'Inhumane' Treatment of Wild Horses
The rumblings of Internet rumormongers notwithstanding, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management isn't gearing up to euthanize 44,000 wild horses and 1,000 burros. But just to make sure, several dozen horse lovers mobbed the agency's downtown Phoenix office Thursday, trotting a fuzzy stuffed horse up and down Washington Avenue and... → Read More
Parking Lot Trolls, Part 2: Slew of ADA-Compliance Suits May Have 'Dangerous' Repercussions for Arizona's Disabled
As a quadriplegic who relies on a wheelchair to get around, Phil Pangrazio doesn't know whether to applaud or condemn a new advocacy group that is patrolling Phoenix parking lots, taking a measuring tape to their handicap-accessible spaces, and suing businesses that don't comply with the standards outlined in the... → Read More
Fire Away: Defying National Trend, Arizona Allows Concealed Guns in K-12 Schools
A push earlier this year to allow concealed guns on college campuses ignited a firestorm at the capitol, before, following frantic pushback from the Arizona Board of Regents, ultimately falling short. Meanwhile, according to a new opinion from Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, it's been legal to carry a concealed... → Read More
We're No. 6! Sierra Club Names ASU One of Nation's Greenest Universities
The 2,700 revelers who attended Arizona State University's most recent staff barbecue cast aside more than 580 pounds of soda bottles, plastic cutlery, leftover food, and other assorted trash. But less than .03 percent of that, or what Mick Dalrymple, ASU's director of sustainability practices, describes as "about half a bag," was actually... → Read More
Broken Bonds: A Law Designed to Protect Native American Children Leaves Some Trapped in Foster Care
There are two portraits on display in Jennifer’s Mesa living room. Two little boys. Dark-eyed with chubby cheeks, impish grins, and thick, black hair. They look so alike in their striped shirts, it’s easy to mistake them for the same child. Even Jennifer’s toddler, Jacob, the subject of one of... → Read More
Arizona Supreme Court Rejects Business Coalition's Attempt to Block Minimum-Wage Ballot Initiative
A ballot initiative to raise Arizona's minimum wage has (once again) been cleared for a vote in November. The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an earlier decision to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the validity of signatures gathered in support of the initiative, Proposition 206, which proposes to increase wages... → Read More
Dolores Huerta Launches Latino Voter-Turnout Effort to Defeat Donald Trump and John McCain
Mexican-American civil rights activist Dolores Huerta visited Phoenix last week to encourage Latinos to turn out and vote against presidential nominee Donald Trump. At an August 26 press conference with several other Latino leaders, including including U.S. Congressman Ruben Gallego and State Representative Rebecca Rios, Huerta called Trump "bizarre" and... → Read More
Parking Lot Trolls: Lawsuit-Happy ADA Defenders Are Officially Enemies of the State
The parking lot for Deanna France’s indoor batting cages in Mesa has 10 handicap-accessible spaces marked with a clearly painted wheelchair symbol — four more than are required under the Americans with Disabilities Act. So she was confused, in June, when she was served with a $10,000 lawsuit for not... → Read More
Nitpicking the Nitpickers: Judge Nixes Challenge to Minimum-Wage Raise Initiative on Technicality
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging thousands of signatures gathered in support of an initiative to increase Arizona's minimum wage, clearing the way for it to appear on the ballot. Given that it hinged on the minutiae of Arizona law concerning ballot initiatives, it was... → Read More
Here's Why the Court Challenge to Minimum-Wage Initiative Was Inevitable
Clipboards in hand, they wave down grocery shoppers and fairgoers, sweat dripping down their faces in the 120-degree Phoenix sun. "Hey, can you sign a petition?" In what appears a noble testament to the cause of the day — raising the minimum wage, legalizing marijuana — they keep at it... → Read More
Magistrate Recommends That Rapist Pay $10 Million for Assault on Prison Teacher
An inmate who raped a teacher at an Arizona state prison in 2014 may be forced to pay her $10 million — in the unlikely event that he gets out of prison and/or inherits a boatloads of cash. A federal magistrate made the recommendation earlier this month after Jacob Harvey, 22,... → Read More
Court Challenge Jeopardizes Arizona's Minimum-Wage Ballot Measure
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge Thursday threw out a substantial number of signatures gathered in support of a voter initiative to raise Arizona's minimum wage to $12 an hour. Judge Joshua Rogers struck many of the signatures by default because the people who gathered them, some of whom were... → Read More
Former Arizona Lawmaker Mark DeSimone Charged with 'Execution-Style' Murder in Alaska
A former Arizona legislator has been charged with first- and second-degree murder in connection with the May 15 death of a 24-year-old Alaska man. Mark DeSimone, 53, is accused of shooting 34-year-old Duilio Antonio "Tony" Rosales, an immigrant from Nicaragua, twice in the back of the head during a hunting... → Read More
Arizona Department of Corrections Provides Shoddy Health Care to Inmates, with Deadly Consequences
Jorge Rios wasn’t thinking straight when he got the news. The mother of his 15-year-old son, the woman he’d loved since high school, had been transferred to the hospital from Arizona’s Perryville Prison, where she was nine months into a two-year sentence for drug possession. It was cervical cancer. Jorge,... → Read More
Work Part-Time for PayPal, Get Tuition Assistance at ASU
As summer gears up, no doubt, thousands of Arizona State University students are hunting for jobs hoping to bank a bit of cash to help offset next year's tuition bill. The Cincinnati-based nonprofit Education at Work, in partnership with ASU and the online payment company PayPal, has a better idea:... → Read More