| Pinal Legislators split on Medicaid: Pinal’s Shope, Pratt two of nine R's to back Brewer | | Sat, Jun 15, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | As two of nine House Republicans to vote in favor of the $8.8 billion state budget that passed early Thursday morning, District 8 Reps. T.J. Shope and Frank Pratt were not too popular with fellow GOP lawmakers later that day.“It’s not easy going against the majority in the caucus,” Shope Read More Tags: Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer, Arizona Legislature, Budget, T.J. Shope, Frank Pratt | - Share It!
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| $8.8B budget passes | | Sat, Jun 15, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | PHOENIX — The Arizona Legislature embraced a signature component of President Barack Obama’s health care law Thursday after a drawn out battle that divided the state’s Republican leadership and saw GOP Gov. Jan Brewer work closely with Democratic lawmakers to expand Medicaid access.The Legislature passed Brewer’s $8.8 billion state budget Read More Tags: Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer, Arizona Legislature, Budget | - Share It!
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| Arizona Republicans advance budget, Medicaid plan | | Thu, Jun 13, 2013 | AZ Legislature | | (AP) A newly formed coalition of Democrats and GOP moderates forced a state budget and Medicaid expansion proposal through the Arizona Senate and House during an hours-long debate that carried into early Thursday. Tags: Arizona, Arizona Legislature, Budget, Medicaid expansion | - Share It!
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| 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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| 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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