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Gordo Grijalva says no mas Gordo Gulps

Arizona’s Congressman Raul Grijalva, co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus is supporting a proposed ban on Big Gulps, according to The Hill website. Grijalva called the proposal “a good move” but warned that it must be phased in over time to avoid shocking the public. “What kind of public education you do around it is [...]

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Hospice Family Care to pay $3.7 mil for false claims

Hospice Family Care, a Mesa based company, has agreed to pay the United States $3,700,000 to resolve civil allegations that the company violated the federal False Claims Act by submitting false bills to Medicare. The settlement agreement resolves allegations that Hospice Family Care and its co-owners, Nancy Smith and Nancy Turner, submitted claims for payment [...]

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TREO under microscope after San Diego junket

In a full page ad in the Arizona Daily Star yesterday touted the success of the Tucson Regional Economic Commission. The timing of the advertising blitz could not be better. Just this week, negative publicity about a boondoggle-gone-bad, brought negative attention to the previously little known TREO. The spotlight was first focused on Tucson City [...]

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Arizona city leaders line up for Flake

A bipartisan group of municipal leaders from communities around Arizona has declared their support for Jeff Flake to serve in the United States Senate. They say that Flake will “the work that Senator Kyl has done on these issues in Washington. Jim Lane, Mayor, City of Scottsdale: “Throughout his time in Congress, Jeff Flake has [...]

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(Un)Welcome to Sedona!

By Christina Sandefur Just six years ago, Arizonans enacted one of the nation’s strongest protections for property rights. That measure is Proposition 207, and it says the government must compensate you when regulations reduce your property value. But that protection is under attack. Now that the state and cities can’t pass the buck to individuals [...]

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DOJ Not Even Pretending to be Nonpartisan Anymore

I’d read something about this several days ago, but for some reason, I decided not to post on it. Now, it’s surface again. The Obama Justice Department isn’t even trying to appear to be non-partisan anymore (did they ever try in the first place, though?). Eric Holder is doing his best to scare black pastors [...]

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Fed Appeals Court rules against DOMA

Romance? It’s all about economics, dahling A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has unanimously ruled today that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) — defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman — is unconstitutional. The judges ruled that the 1996 law deprives homosexual couples [...]

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NFIB Endorses Jesse Kelly in Arizona CD8 Special Election

Influential Small-Business Association Supports Candidate with Trusted Small-Business Experience WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31, 2012 —The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s leading small-business association, today endorsed Jesse Kelly (R) to represent Arizona’s 8th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.  Kelly is seeking to fill the vacancy left by the resignation [...]

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Last day to order vote-by-mail ballots for CD8 race tomorrow

Tomorrow, June 1, is the last day to order a vote-by-mail ballot for the June 12, 2012 Special Congressional Election. To order your ballot to be mailed to your home, log onto the Pima County Recorder’s web site at www.recorder.pima.gov and click on the link for “Early Ballot Request,”. According to F. Ann Rodriguez, the [...]

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Ardent Obama backer renounces Dems, joins GOP

Former U.S. Rep. Artur Davis condemns Dem path Former Democrat Congressman Rep. Artur Davis (Ala.) has made it official. He is abandoning his longtime party for the GOP.  Davis confirmed the rumor on his website. “Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities,” Davis wrote. He intends [...]

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