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Concerns over the costs of empowerment scholarship accounts (ESA's) and the potential effects on public schools have been central to those who want limits placed on who receives the scholarships. "Why are Republicans who prided themselves on being fiscally responsible not curtailing this wasteful spending especially when the program is nearly $1 billion and our state faces a nearly a $400 million budget deficit?" Beth Lewis asked during the second and final hearing of the House Ad Hoc Study Committee on Empowerment Scholarship Accounts earlier this week.

The Republicans call her a Democrat. The Democrats call her a traitor. But Arizona's Independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema ignores the talk.

PHOENIX — In 1936, Jack and Joe Kennedy, teenagers from Boston, came to the J-6 Ranch near Benson, Arizona for some hard work and dry air.

According to the Arizona Food Bank Network, 751,690 people suffer from food insecurity in Arizona

TUCSON, AZ — The port of entry in Lukeville, Arizona may be closed, but it's not stopping the surge of migrants from entering near the town through holes in the border wall. In a social media post on Monday, Scripps News Tucson reporter Adam Klepp said as many as 1,000 migrants were waiting for Border Protection Agents. Klepp said some of them told him they'd been waiting five days and had not eaten.

A vote on an aid package to fund the wars in Ukraine and Israel as well as provide billions of dollars to upgrade border security failed in the U.S. Senate Wednesday.

PHOENIX — When Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne offered grant money to pay for school resource officers, 301 schools were awarded grants.

Republicans are proposing legislation that asks the EPA to expand the number of blends of gasoline used in Maricopa County to eight.

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From the public records of the Hancock County Auditor's Office: