Mesa considers bond election for district growth and upgrades
Mesa Unified School District mulls a bond election next year to fund new schools and a district wide phone system update. Superintendent Jim Zaharis says a citizen review committee will study capital needs for the next six to eight years and report to the board. An elementary school in the Red Mountain area is a likely future project as growth concentrates in the far northeast.
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Mesa Unified School District
Jim Zaharis
Mesa City Council
Zaharis
Red Mountain
Mesa
Plan to move Kathleen Gannon faces prison transfer snag
Staff reports describe a proposed conditional transfer of Kathleen Gannon from the Arizona State Hospital to the state prison system. Arizona Department of Corrections Director Sam Lewis balked at court monitoring conditions citing separation of powers. Judge Ron Reinstein voiced concern over an unconditional transfer and said he would keep some oversight, noting Gannon’s unique case after a mixed verdict in 1989. Prosecutor Cleve Lynch supported an unbiased monitor for the treatment program.
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Kathleen Gannon
Gannon
Sam Lewis
Arizona Department of Corrections
Maricopa County
Ron Reinstein
Lewis
Reinstein
Tempe
Arizona State Hospital
Cleve Lynch
Police seek barfly on fraud counts in Mesa and Tempe
Mesa police hunt forgery suspect Richard Allen Lee 44 who targets women at country bars. He faces two open forgery charges in Mesa and an outstanding felony warrant in Tempe. Alias list includes Allen Lee Duke Russell Duke Lee and Russell Lee. He uses claimed Texas marshal status. Contact Mesa police at 644-2002.
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Mesa
Richard Allen Lee
Tempe
Lee
Allen Lee
Duke Russell
Duke Lee
Russell Lee
Texas
Mesa Police
Lawmaker Lose Panel Post Over ASU East Amendment Fight
Arizona House Speaker Mark Killian removed Rep. John Verkamp from the House Appropriations Committee after Verkamp pushed amendments to fund a Williams Gateway ASU East campus and similar sums for NAU and the UA. Verkamp calls the move political retaliation. Killian cites conduct and integrity concerns amid a deadlocked vote.
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Arizona State University
Williams Gateway Airport
Mark Killian
Mesa
Killian
John Verkamp
Flagstaff
House Appropriations Committee
Verkamp
Northern Arizona University
University of Arizona
ASU East
ASU
Tucson
House
NAU and UA
Budgetax layoffs hit Maricopa County workers
The first pink slips went to county employees Tuesday as Maricopa County moves to trim a 22 million dollar deficit. Up to 1350 layoffs approved by the Board of Supervisors include unpaid days off for most workers and elimination of many on call and temporary posts by May 1. Remaining staff will receive one month of pay and benefits while seeking new jobs with county career centers.
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Maricopa County
Linda Turley
Eta
County Board of Supervisors
Roy Pederson
Paul Ahler
Adler
Teen warns police of armed friend near Whitman Elementary
A 16 year old Mesa boy told police his friend, a 14 year old, possessed an AK 47 and threatened to shoot Whitman Elementary School at 1829 N Grand St. Authorities searched the home and school at 2 40 PM but found nothing. In separate crashes, a 19 year old man suffered critical injuries in a Baseline Gilbert Rd collision and two more people were hurt in a Alma School Guadalupe wreck with several names listed in hospital.
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Whitman
N. Grand St
Dewey Ray
Scottsdale Memorial Hospital
Osborn
Baseline
Gilbert Roads
Ray
Rosemarie Warren
Gilbert
Alan Painter
Chandler
Volkswagen
Alan McKenzie
Desert Samaritan Hospital
Alma School
Guadalupe
Aaron Labedz
Carole Burrows
Linda Hamelton
Valley Lutheran Hospital
Eric Knighton
Valley Lutheran
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