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By Dan Nowicki, The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
Under the pressure of a looming government shutdown, Arizona lawmakers struggled with political angst, sleep deprivation, hurt feelings and growing distrust as they completed last-minute work on a budget that would keep the doors to state offices open even as the doors to the Arizona Senate were briefly locked.
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By Casey Newton, The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
Hours after lawmakers adjourned their 171-day regular session, Gov. Jan Brewer called them back to work on the 2010 budget, as well as on a temporary tax increase that would pay for K-12 schools, social services and public safety.
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Stimulus eases community college troubles
By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org
States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system.
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Weekly wrap: Report questions states' use of stimulus road funds
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer
States are spending too much stimulus money on new road construction and not enough on public transit projects, a national advocacy group claims in a report issued Monday (June 29). Meanwhile, Michigan and California consider teaming up to solve their prison problems and North Carolina and Rhode Island face off with Amazon.com over taxes.
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Ballpark tax-sharing settlement is reached
By Scott Wong and Carrie Watters, The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
Four months after the Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers opened their spring-training ballpark, Phoenix and Glendale have agreed how to divide the tax dollars it generates.
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AZ Senate fails to act on gas-storage cavern
By Tony Davis, Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
A bill that would have cleared the way for a Houston company to open up a huge underground cavern to store natural gas near Eloy died in the Legislature's closing days.
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Execution method of lethal injection approved
By Michael Kiefer, The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
A federal judge Wednesday removed a major obstacle to executions in Arizona, ruling that the state's lethal-injection procedure is similar to one approved by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Suit tries to block Tennessee's guns-in-bars law
By Lucas L. Johnson II, The Associated Press, The Tennessean (Nashville)
A lawyer for plaintiffs suing to stop a law that allows handguns to be carried in Tennessee bars and restaurants that serve alcohol says the legal action is necessary to maintain a safe environment for patrons.
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Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor
More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes.
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State budget woes worsen as deadline arrives
By Deborah Tedford, National Public Radio (Audio)
States across the country got their 2010 fiscal years off to a bumpy start Wednesday, as some faced shutdowns with their budgets in limbo and others braced for deep cuts after passing bare-bones plans to deal with recession-driven revenue shortfalls.
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