Advertise with Googlier.com Pima | Arizona Capitol Times https://azcapitoltimes.com Your Inside Source for Arizona Government, Politics and Business Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:23:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.11 https://azcapitoltimes.com/files/2023/05/az17.jpg Pima | Arizona Capitol Times https://azcapitoltimes.com 32 32 43761567 Lawmaker in feud with Glendale proposes pay cap for city workers https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/09/19/lawmaker-in-feud-with-glendale-proposes-pay-cap-for-city-workers/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/09/19/lawmaker-in-feud-with-glendale-proposes-pay-cap-for-city-workers/#respond Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:40:49 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/?p=131066 A state senator at odds with his own city government wants to cap salaries for municipal employees throughout the state, a move city officials say could hobble efforts to attract and retain good government workers.

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]]> https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/09/19/lawmaker-in-feud-with-glendale-proposes-pay-cap-for-city-workers/feed/ 0 131066 Voters shatter state record for turnout in primary election https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2018/09/07/arizona-elections-2018-voters-shatter-state-record-for-turnout-in-primary-election/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2018/09/07/arizona-elections-2018-voters-shatter-state-record-for-turnout-in-primary-election/#respond Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:10:25 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/?p=124815 More Arizonans voted in the 2018 primary election than in any other primary in the state’s history, a surge that was in part fueled by strong gains from Democrats at the polls.

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]]> https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2018/09/07/arizona-elections-2018-voters-shatter-state-record-for-turnout-in-primary-election/feed/ 0 124815 Arizona youth joins tribal officials to push for continued diabetes program funding https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2017/03/31/arizona-youth-joins-tribal-officials-to-push-for-continued-diabetes-program-funding/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2017/03/31/arizona-youth-joins-tribal-officials-to-push-for-continued-diabetes-program-funding/#respond Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:32:23 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/?p=103905 Alton Villegas offered an unusual call to action on March 29 for an 11-year-old boy: “Destroy the ice cream man.”

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]]> https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2017/03/31/arizona-youth-joins-tribal-officials-to-push-for-continued-diabetes-program-funding/feed/ 0 103905 Redistricting committee may not make concrete recommendations to IRC https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/10/25/arizona-panel-to-hear-more-redistricting-testimony/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/10/25/arizona-panel-to-hear-more-redistricting-testimony/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:14:06 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/news/2011/10/25/arizona-panel-to-hear-more-redistricting-testimony/ A joint committee created to craft the Legislature’s recommendations to the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission spent more than four hours on Monday listening to an airing of every grievance conservatives have with the redistricting process.

And in the end, it may not actually make any recommendations at all.

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]]> https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/10/25/arizona-panel-to-hear-more-redistricting-testimony/feed/ 3 40369 The ‘Ancient and Honorable Pueblo’ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/06/13/the-%e2%80%98ancient-and-honorable-pueblo%e2%80%99/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/06/13/the-%e2%80%98ancient-and-honorable-pueblo%e2%80%99/#respond Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:07:02 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/news/2011/06/13/the-%e2%80%98ancient-and-honorable-pueblo%e2%80%99/ The Big Apple. The Windy City. The Old Pueblo. Each name says that city is one of a kind.  Ever wonder how Tucson came to be called the Old Pueblo? It’s hard to tell how nicknames get started, but like the town itself, it goes back a ways.

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Posters similar to this one featuring ‘Old Pueblo’ imagery and slogans were used by merchants and businessman hoping to attract tourists to Tucson.
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]]> https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/06/13/the-%e2%80%98ancient-and-honorable-pueblo%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 36496 Arizona voters to get ballot measure on picking judges https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/04/18/arizona-voters-to-get-ballot-measure-on-picking-judges/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/04/18/arizona-voters-to-get-ballot-measure-on-picking-judges/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:58:40 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/news/2011/04/18/arizona-voters-to-get-ballot-measure-on-picking-judges/ Arizona voters will decide whether to lengthen the terms of judges and lessen the State Bar of Arizona's voice in appointing judges.

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]]> https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/04/18/arizona-voters-to-get-ballot-measure-on-picking-judges/feed/ 1 35254 House postpones judicial selection vote https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/04/12/house-postpones-judicial-selection-vote/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/04/12/house-postpones-judicial-selection-vote/#respond Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:08:32 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/news/2011/04/12/house-postpones-judicial-selection-vote/ The Arizona House postponed a preliminary vote Tuesday on a proposed ballot measure that would lengthen the terms of judges and lessen the State Bar of Arizona's voice in appointing judges.

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]]> https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/04/12/house-postpones-judicial-selection-vote/feed/ 0 35112 House to mull judicial selection changes https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/04/12/house-to-mull-judicial-selection-changes/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/04/12/house-to-mull-judicial-selection-changes/#respond Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:36:58 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/news/2011/04/12/house-to-mull-judicial-selection-changes/ The Arizona House is scheduled to take a preliminary vote Tuesday afternoon on a proposed ballot measure that would lengthen the terms of judges and lessen the State Bar of Arizona's voice in appointing judges.

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]]> https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/04/12/house-to-mull-judicial-selection-changes/feed/ 0 35108 The ‘Convento’ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/13/the-convento-2/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/13/the-convento-2/#respond Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:35:52 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/news/2010/12/13/the-convento-2/ South of Congress Street on the west side of the Santa Cruz River near downtown Tucson was a Pima Indian village. This site, at the base of Sentinel Peak — today it is called ‘A’ Mountain — is known to have been inhabited since at least 1000 B.C. Located by a once-flowing spring that emptied into the Santa Cruz, American Indians called the village Stjukson (spelling of the word varies widely; the Spanish transliterated it to Tucson).

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Ancient ruins on the Santa Cruz River in Tucson
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]]> https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/12/13/the-convento-2/feed/ 0 32130 The Oasis at a Cultural Crossroads https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/11/25/the-oasis-at-a-cultural-crossroads/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/11/25/the-oasis-at-a-cultural-crossroads/#respond Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:55:01 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/?p=31830 For almost two centuries, Spanish missionaries, mountain men, ’49ers, Civil War soldiers and American settlers benefitted from — and often depended on — the plentiful crops and hospitality of the Pima and Maricopa people.

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A sketch of the life around the “oasis” known as the Pima villages in 1846.
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