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Miss America Jennifer Berry tells students at Ganado to beware of alcohol, make good choices for their life
GANADO, Ariz.- She had never been to the Navajo Nation before. But that did not stop Miss America 2006 Jennifer Berry from sharing the most basic and important of Navajo teachings with the 1,000 students who had come [...]
A “power rating” of members of Congress released last week by the nonpartisan company Knowlegis of Fairfax, Va., lists Arizona Sen. John McCain as the 11th most-powerful of the 100 U.S. senators. Arizona’s other Republican senator, Jon Kyl, is listed as the 13th most powerful.
In the 435-seat retiring House, Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., [...]
While the country’s been conducting a war on terrorism, defense contractor ManTech International Corp. has seen its revenues nearly double, amounting to almost $1 billion in its last public report.
The Virginia company has hired four firms to lobby Congress on its behalf and received military contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi, [...]
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Carlis Chee considers himself a wanderer by nature. “I like to move around,” he said. “The Navajo are known throughout history to be nomads.”The artist has traveled across the United States with art in tow, mounting shows at all of the major cities. “I would drive my truck and haul all of my stuff,” he [...]
On Sunday at 2 a.m., Daylight Saving Time ends. We move the clock back one hour to return to Standard Time, giving us a 60-minute bonus, so we really shouldn’t complain….
….Exceptions to the Rule
On April 2, 2006, the entire state of Indiana joined 48 other states in observing Daylight Saving Time. Previously many counties remained [...]
U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi’s 13-point lead over Democrat Ellen Simon in the general election has remained exactly the same since a similar poll this past month, according to Northern Arizona University’s Social Research Lab.
A recent third poll called Majority Watch, using an automatic calling system that’s untested in congressional surveys, finds Simon ahead by five [...]
Two of the three candidates vying to represent the 1st District in Congress will be in Flagstaff on Saturday morning facing off in debate.
Democratic congressional candidate Ellen Simon and Libertarian congressional candidate David Schlosser will attend and have held similar debates around the district.
With less than two weeks until Election Day, [...]
WASHINGTON — The government would end its long and controversial responsibility for managing American Indian trust lands under a proposed change to a bill settling a decade-old lawsuit by Indians against the government.
Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., and vice chairman Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., filed the bill last year to overhaul the trust [...]
Reports that federal authorities are scrutinizing Representative Rick Renzi about a land deal are likely to impact his re-election bid only days before the November seventh election.
That’s according to Renzi’s lawyer and Arizona’s Democratic party chairman.
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In Arizona, it’s the most important issue among likely voters. But consensus on how to act is elusive.
Much of America hit the pause button this fall on the flaming debate over illegal immigration, once it became clear Congress would not act before the election. But not Arizona.
Here in a state where the wave of border [...]
