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Sanitary District schedules meetings to answer questions

Tri-City Regional Sanitary District (“TRSD”) has scheduled two more Community Outreach Meetings to be held on Wednesday December 5, 2018.  These meetings are designed to answer questions which residents have based upon recent notices published in the Arizona Silver Belt and posted along the proposed routes of the wastewater collection …

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Statewide education candidate,Kathy Hoffman advocates for rural schools

By Kathy Hoffman  As a teacher and a candidate, I’ve visited rural schools around the state. From those travels, I’ve noticed one common theme around the state: our rural schools do not have a strong advocate at the Department of Education. From empty promises to policies not designed to support …

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Barcon notes flaws of engineering report and recommends vote for Palmer & Tower

Dear Editor, For the past two years, I’ve been requesting a copy of the Tri-City Regional Sanitary District’s (TCRSD) Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) which is the detailed engineering report TCRSD submitted to USDA for approval. TCRSD and USDA have withheld this document for two years, which is illegal as the …

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An Open Letter to the State Board of Education & the Arizona Department of Education

We are writing about serious errors and inequities in the coming A-F announcements. We accept the concept of school accountability, and that statewide programs necessarily lack subtlety and nuance, but we equally believe that such a system must itself be accountable for accuracy, fairness and precision. We deplore the statistical …

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