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AZCentral.com
April 21, 2018
Arizona State University built a $35 million building in Washington, D.C. The plan to use the building for programs in four ASU schools, multiple think tanks, a policy journal, the ... They found a historic building within a 10-minute walk to the White House, then secured government-backed bonds to finance it.
Sioux City Journal
April 21, 2018
Prior to coming to USD, Gestring was chief financial officer at Flathead Valley Community College in Montana and worked in increasingly responsible finance positions for South Dakota state government. She has a M.B.A. from the University of South Dakota and a bachelor's degree in accounting andÃâà...
CNN
April 20, 2018
The funding would support school resources such as infrastructure, textbooks, technology, curriculum and school buses. More dollars are available for classrooms and teachers because the state's revenues are on the rise "combined with a reduction in state government operating budgets," according to hisÃâà...
Phoenix New Times
April 20, 2018
The environmental rollback at the federal level is especially troubling in Arizona, where the state government is keen on deregulation. Conservationists say state agencies prioritize commerce and industry groups over muscular protections for the environment. Although in the past the EPA served as a kindÃâà...
The State Press
April 19, 2018
Students and faculty of ASU's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College should play an active role in the Red for Ed campaign to show the state government that both current and future educators support increased funds for education in Arizona. Current and aspiring teachers should stay in Arizona to improve theÃâà...
AZFamily
April 15, 2018
President Donald Trump has slammed the company, accusing it of paying "little or no taxes" to state and local governments. But since 2017, Amazon has been collecting sales tax in every state that charges it. Third-party sellers that use Amazon to sell products make their own tax collection decisions,Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 15, 2018
Republican state attorneys general support adding a citizenship question on the 2020 census, unlike their Democratic counterparts who have sued to block ... He said the question was needed in part to help the government enforce the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that was intended to protect the politicalÃâà...
The State Press
April 15, 2018
This week, reporters spoke to DACA recipients who learned they will no longer be eligible for in-state tuition after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a lower court's ... Undergraduate Student Government Tempe will host a work shop to educate students about how to support victims of sexual violence andÃâà...
Arizona Daily Sun
April 15, 2018
As the 2018 election begins to take shape, Arizona – a state that already has one of the largest proportions of women serving in the legislature – is ... who is running for attorney general, the decision to join the race was driven by what she sees as an erosion of checks and balances in the state government.
Phoenix New Times
April 13, 2018
"This is progress," said Kevin DeMenna, a lobbyist for the Arizona Dispensaries Association. "It's a great day in America." DeMenna noted that no new executive orders have been published yet, and no new laws passed. But "it's a good and better tone" from the federal government that state governmentsÃâà...
CNN
April 13, 2018
More dollars are available for classrooms and teachers, because the state's revenues are on the rise "combined with a reduction in state government operating budgets," according to his plan. But many teachers and education professionals said Ducey's plan lacked specifics and left out several of theirÃâà...
AZCentral.com
April 12, 2018
Arizona teachers don't need the experts to tell them the kind of intransigent government that rule the state and their fate. They don't need experts to tell them the public might turn against them if they have to look for babysitting over a long-term walkout. They don't need anyone telling them how risky strikingÃâà...
AZCentral.com
April 12, 2018
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a former business executive, took office more than three years ago promising to make state government leaner and more efficient. Officials within his administration say he's done just that through his Government Transformation Office. But the effort hasn't come cheap: HisÃâà...
New Jersey Herald
March 31, 2018
Red-state teacher rebellion hits Oklahoma, grows in Arizona ... Oklahoma teachers threatening a walkout forced their Republican-led government to vote overwhelmingly to boost taxes for teacher raises and more school funding, making it the latest successful rebellion among educators in red states and aÃâà...
Arizona Daily Star
March 31, 2018
Arizona voters might get chance to increase number of lawmakers in state government ... Based on estimates from the state Office of Economic Opportunity, that would mean at least 33 senators and 66 representatives — one senator and two representatives for each district — after the 2020 census.
Lincoln Journal Star
March 31, 2018
A carton of eggs that expired on March 22nd is shown Friday, March 30, 2018 in Phoenix. This year's Easter eggs may already hard-boiled, dyed and laid in a basket, but next year's batch might be a little less fresh. State lawmakers are on the verge of passing a proposal that would put a 45-day expirationÃâà...
news9.com KWTV
March 31, 2018
Teachers to the west don't have a walkout date set yet, and they said it depends on if their state government supplies funds by the end of the legislative session. Dublin said she's one of the better paid teachers in her district, and only makes ends meet because she also receives a check from her service inÃâà...
The State Press
March 31, 2018
Photo by Isabel Han | The State Press ASU students walk by the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College in Tempe, Arizona, on Thursday, March 29, 2018. .... Education students who leave college with high debt often find themselves looking for jobs in low income schools because the federal government willÃâà...
Education Week (blog)
March 30, 2018
In the shadows of the State Capitol, thousands of Arizona teachers decked in red demanded Wednesday that their state government pump $1 billion back into the public school system and provide school workers with a 20 percent pay increase. If their demands aren't met, their leaders said, they'll stage aÃâà...
AZCentral.com
March 30, 2018
An Arizona state senator appears to have plagiarized parts of his answers to a 2016 candidate questionnaire that appeared on azcentral.com. The accusations against ... Parker wrote: "The “war on drugs” (beware government domestic wars) hasn't made a dent in the popularity of pot. Nor, after decades ofÃâà...
Cronkite News
March 29, 2018
She's frustrated by what she calls the lack of support from the state government. ... PHOENIX – Thousands of Arizona teachers angry about pay rallied as part of the Red for Ed movement at the state Capitol on Wednesday and demanded a 20 percent raise, but organizers stopped short of calling for aÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 25, 2018
Arpaio later joined the investigator at a news conference in Phoenix with a slide presentation explaining why he believed Obama's birth certificate was fraudulent. Arpaio says he sympathizes with Trump, who has pressed his desire to root out government employees he accuses of being "deep state" actorsÃâà...
Arizona Sonoro News
March 25, 2018
According to SECC director Linda Stiles, the money goes to a fund collected by state employees and donated to charities across Arizona. So, in a way, the lives of Arizonans all over depended on the milking technique of the men and women who run their government. The crowd favorite was, naturally,Ãâà...
KIIITV.com
March 25, 2018
According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the march crowd totaled 15,000. There were no arrests, ... Jamila Rahim, 20, an Arizona State University sophomore, came to the march with friends. "I get that this is our ... "I don't want the government coming up with definitions of who is mentally ill.
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
March 25, 2018
This could allow states a kind of “passporting” right, where they can export products across state borders into similar jurisdictions. The effort by Arizona's government to implement a regulatory sandbox for FinTech is certainly admirable. From the outset, the approach is encouraging, although ultimately it willÃâà...
AZCentral.com
March 24, 2018
Our experts tell us that unless EORP's static contribution rate is scrapped, the fund will fail. This would raise costs and budget pressure for government entities around the state. The longer this crisis goes unaddressed, the more it will cost Arizona governments and taxpayers. The sooner these proposals areÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
March 24, 2018
Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona is pushing a ballot initiative that would ask voters to approve a constitutional amendment requiring half the state's electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. On Friday, the Republican governor signed a law that will allow utilities to pay a fine of as little as $100Ãâà...
Government Technology
March 24, 2018
While individuals that have invested in digital currency may be uncertain as to how the IRS will treat their tax obligation, Arizona, Georgia, Vermont and Wyoming are considering proposals to allow citizens to pay state taxes digitally. The Arizona State Legislature passed Senate Bill 1091, which would allowÃâà...
Arizona State University
March 9, 2018
A: No, the Navajo Nation in Arizona participates in daylight saving, which applies to most of the northeast corner of the state, keeping in sync with the neighboring parts of the Navajo Nation in Utah and New Mexico. But since U.S. authorities in Arizona follow the state's non-participation, government officesÃâà...
Arizona Daily Sun
March 9, 2018
Members of the House Government Committee on Thursday gave their unanimous endorsement to the pleas of 11-year-old Jax Weldon to designate the Sonorasaurus as the "official state ... It also lived in what is now Arizona, though at the time the climate and topography was vastly different than it is now.
Sacramento Bee
March 9, 2018
“Arizona's legislature believed the federal government wasn't doing enough to enforce federal immigration law and struck out on its own to enforce the law by requiring registration of immigrants, making it criminal to be undocumented in the state and otherwise empowering state and local law enforcementÃâà...
Finance Magnates
March 9, 2018
Whether or not this bill becomes law, the US federal government will have the final word on crypto. The SEC, FinCEN, and the US Treasury have all been making calculated moves to close in on crypto over the past several weeks. While crypto legislation has been a patchwork of laws that vary state-by-stateÃâà...
Vox
March 9, 2018
The Justice Department's basic claim is that three California laws, passed in 2017, limit the ability of state officials and employees to assist the federal government in enforcing immigration policy. Tensions between states like California and Arizona and the federal government over immigration enforcementÃâà...
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
March 9, 2018
As previously reported by Cointelegraph, the bill passed the Arizona State Senate on Feb. 8. While the bill allows for Arizona citizens to pay their state taxes in cryptocurrency, it also specifies that the state government must convert crypto payments to US dollars within 24 hours of their receipt. A sponsor ofÃâà...
KTAR.com
March 8, 2018
Arizona passed an statute in 2016 that bars the state from “entering into government contracts with companies or persons who engage in or advocate for economic boycotts of Israel.” This act also forced the university to amend its standard outside speaker contract to contain a “No Boycott of Israel” clause.
Phoenix New Times
March 7, 2018
In Arizona, pay-raise decisions are more siloed. Individual school districts have the final say on teacher paychecks; all the same, schools still are funded by the state government. Over the last decade, Arizona has cut tons of funding from the education budget, and it has reached the point where the averageÃâà...
Government Technology
March 2, 2018
The Arizona Cybersecurity Team, created by an executive order on March 1, is expected to foster a collaborative approach to cybersecurity and education ... But it will also bring in representatives from the legislature, higher educations, local government, the private sector and other state agencies.
AZCentral.com
February 22, 2018
That's what is happening with the Arizona State Retirement System and its 209,000 active members and more than 700 government employers. The initial increase of 0.3 percent commences with the start of the Arizona pension fund's new fiscal year in July. Someone earning $50,000, for example, willÃâà...
The State Press
December 31, 1999
The citizens of Arizona should show support for DACA students in order to encourage law and policy makers to work to change the current laws that will prohibit DACA students from receiving in-state tuition costs. Immigrants make America great, and the government should be encouraging them to go toÃâà...
StateScoop
December 31, 1999
The state's election database has also been targeted in high-profile cyberattacks leading up to the 2016 presidential election. On Sunday, "60 Minutes" reported that Arizona was one of four states where elections systems were successfully penetrated by hackers working for the Russian government, thoughÃâà...
KTAR.com
December 31, 1999
Arizona passed a statute in 2016 that bars the state from “entering into government contracts with companies or persons who engage in or advocate for economic boycotts of Israel.” This act also forced the university to amend its standard outside speaker contract to contain a “No Boycott of Israel” clause.
