| Fired employee files claim against Voyles, County | | Sat, Jun 8, 2013 | Pinal County | | The specter of mass firings in the Pinal County Attorney’s Office continues to follow Lando Voyles.Voyles, who took office as county attorney Dec. 29, fired approximately 25 percent of the employees in his department starting New Year’s Eve and continuing into the following week in what has become known in Read More Tags: Pinal County, Lando Voyles, Pinal County Attorney | - Share It!
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| Tough week for Pinal’s Law & Order team | | Sat, Jun 8, 2013 | Pinal County | | FLORENCE — Despite a significantly-reduced proposal for an increase to the Sheriff’s Office budget, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors gave no additional funds to sheriff Paul Babeu on Wednesday.The board held firm to its proclamation of no increased spending for any County department. Tags: Pinal County, Pinal County Budget, Lando Voyles, Paul Babeu | - Share It!
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| Supervisors Adopt Balanced, Tentative Budget for FY 2013-14 | | Thu, Jun 6, 2013 | Pinal County | | FLORENCE – The Pinal County Board of Supervisors today adopted a tentative budget in the amount of $373,723,558 for the upcoming fiscal year of 2013-14.The document presented to the board by County Manager Fritz A. Behring, reflected budget numbers based on priorities set by the Board of Supervisors in public Read More Tags: Arizona, Pinal County, Pinal Budget, Pinal County Board of Supervisors | - Share It!
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| Pinal ready to drop ICE if feds won’t pay | | Thu, May 16, 2013 | Pinal County | | FLORENCE — Sheriff Paul Babeu and approximately 75 of his employees attended the Pinal County Board of Supervisors meeting on May 8 to urge the board to keep its jail contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, warning the board that possibly hundreds of jobs were at stake. Tags: Arizona, Pinal County, Board of Supervisors, Paul Babeu | - Share It!
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| Board of Supervisors: Voyles’ court security plan shot down | | Sat, Jun 1, 2013 | Pinal County | | FLORENCE — A proposal from the Pinal County Attorney’s Office to spend $100,000 on increased court security provided by the Sheriff’s Office did not pass at Wednesday’s meeting of the Board of Supervisors.The proposal died due to lack of a motion.Roger Valdez, justice of the peace in the Casa Grande Read More Tags: Arizona, Pinal County, Board of Supervisors, Roger Valdez, Justice Court, Lando Voyles, Paul Babeu | - Share It!
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| History of violations, complaints stirring outrage over Johnson Utilities | | Sat, May 25, 2013 | Pinal County | | Queen Creek, the wash that gives the town its name, smelled of sewage so often that Paul Caldwell’s children started calling it “Stinky Creek.”He blamed the local water and sewage treatment company, Johnson Utilities, in his formal complaint to the Arizona Corporation Commission in late 2007. Since then, Pinal County Read More Tags: Arizona, Pinal County, Arizona Corporation Commission, Johnson Utilities | - Share It!
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| ICE agrees to negotiations on Pinal jail contract | | Sat, May 18, 2013 | Pinal County | | A contract between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Pinal County has bled the County dry financially for years, but a meeting Thursday morning could be the first step to putting a stop to the bleeding. Tags: Pinal County, Arizona, Prison Contract, ICE, U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, | - Share It!
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| Plan to allow copper mine near Superior clears a congressional hurdle | | Sat, May 18, 2013 | Pinal County | | WASHINGTON - A land swap that would pave the way for the creation of North America’s biggest copper mine near Superior was approved on Wednesday by a key House panel.The bill, backed by former political rivals Reps. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., and Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., passed the House Natural Resources Committee Read More Tags: Pinal County, Arizona, Superior, Copper mining, U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalv | - Share It!
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| CAC’s tax rate could increase 34% | | Sat, May 11, 2013 | Pinal County | | Central Arizona College’s proposed 2013-14 budget includes its highest primary tax rate in a decade — a 34 percent increase from this year’s rate.CAC Governing Board members Tuesday agreed to publish the college’s proposed budget that includes the hefty tax increase.Rounded to the nearest cent, the tax rate would increase Read More Tags: Pinal County, Central Arizona Community College, Tax Rate | - Share It!
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