One of Monty Python’s greatest scenes features a meeting in Roman Jerusalem. John Cleese introduces the motion, “What have the Romans ever done for us?” It all starts to go downhill when someone says, “Well, there’s the aqueduct.” A couple years into my time as principal at Miami High School, …
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Low turnout for primary election no indication of what’s to come for the general
The votes have been cast in Gila County’s primary election and with the exception of one race, the results are in and despite the low turnout, County election officials are preparing for the possibility of a record-breaking vote in November. “A lot of the times the primary election, especially in …
Read More »Upcoming elections could see substantial changes in representation
The April 1 deadline to declare for political office has passed and now the calendar turns to the primaries in an election that will tell a lot about the future of Arizona. From the election that will likely decide the razor-thin margin of the U.S. Senate, to the City of …
Read More »AZ Supreme Court to decide if Cook stays on Republican primary ballot
BY: CAITLIN SIEVERS – MAY 7, 2024 Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers is one of the final holdouts continuing to challenge the validity of signatures her opponent collected to qualify for the July primary. Out of more than 20 challenges to candidate petitions and the voter signatures on them that were filed …
Read More »Arizona’s first governor: No stranger to challenging times
George W. P. Hunt got his start in life when he came to Globe in 1881 – first waiting tables in James Pascoe’s restaurant, then working as a mucker in the Old Dominion Mine. By 1892 he’d won a seat representing Gila County in the territorial legislature. In 1900, taking …
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