Symington pushes states convention to curb federal power
Gov. Fife Symington promotes a nonformal convention of states to draft amendments strengthening state rights. Participants would be legislators from all states with 75 percent backing sending proposals to Congress, or trigger a constitutional convention if Congress balks. He cites 1786 precedent. critics call it a waste.
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U.S
Symington
Congress
Senate
Cindy Resnick
Tucson
Utah
Michael Leavitt
Virginia
Leavitt
Renee
Three trucking firms seek interim agreements in strike
Washington three more trucking companies asked the Teamsters union for interim pacts to allow their 4350 drivers and dock workers to rejoin union members from two exempted carriers while awaiting a national settlement. TNT Holland Motor Express TNT Red Star Sea-Land Service seek interim deals amid a week-long strike that has affected 22 firms and 70000 workers.
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Washington
Teamsters
Trucking Management Inc
TNT Holland Motor Express Inc
Holland, Mich
Teamster
TNT Red Star
Newark
N.J
Sea-Land Service
Elizabeth
TMI
Ron Carey
Preston Trucking
Carolina Freight
Churchill Truck Lines Inc
Chillicothe
Trucker families stranded as Teamster strike widens
Seven truckers and families, moved from Barstow and Flagstaff to Phoenix by Yellow Freight, remain in a motel as the nationwide strike begins. With strike pay not yet available, several face housing and bill pressures while the company withholds further assistance and the union seeks relief.
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John Chacon
Phoenix
Yellow A System Inc
Barstow
Calif
Chacon
Yellow Freight
Mike Smid
Terry Moser
Teamsters Local 104
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Phoenix council sets Oct 25 for mayoral special election
The Phoenix City Council selected October 25 as the date for a special election to fill the mayoral and council seats. The vote was 5-1 after a county elections decision related to the October election and potential December timing.
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Phoenix Council
Phoenix City Council
Maricopa
Skeptic grows in White Mountains over southern Navajo nuclear plant
In southern Navajo County a proposed 900 megawatt nuclear plant sparked early talk of 2000 construction and 700 permanent jobs. Residents grew skeptical as years passed with little public progress and officials reporting no recent updates from developers or the White Mountain Regional Development Corp. Some speculated the project may have been a cover for a nuclear waste dump, while opposition groups faded and meetings dwindled.
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White Mountains
Navajo County
Show Low
Holbrook
Noy
Patrick Sherman
Watson
White Mountain Regional Development Corp
Carl Wibel
Phil Downing
Economic-Development Corporation
Break-in sparks health and security crew at Biosphere 2
More than a dozen crew and security personnel entered the sealed Biosphere 2 project after an April 4 break-in officials said. Norberto Alvarez-Romo returned to Space Biospheres Ventures as mission control vice president amid ongoing crew and leadership upheaval.
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Tucson
Norberto Alvarez-Romo
Space Biospheres Ventures
Mission Control
Alvarez-Romo
Space Biospheres
Margret Augustine
Biosphere 2
Augustine
Oracle
Richard Brown
Michael R. Berren
University of Arizona
Brown
Berren
Martin C. Bowen
Bowen
Ora
Groups sue to speed endangered status for two fish
Environmental groups sue the U S district court seeking swift federal protection for two fish species native to the Gila River and its tributaries in Arizona and New Mexico. They argue limited staff forces prioritizing the most endangered species. The Greater Gila Biodiversity Project filed the suit in Phoenix. Southwest region.
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Gila River
Arizona
New Mexico
U.S. District Court
Greater
Gila
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