By Jude Joffe-Block Preliminary data released by the US Department of Education this week shows that only 25 percent of English Language Learners in Arizona graduate high school in four years. That’s compared to Texas, where the English Language Learner
By Joe HenkeGov. Jan Brewer said Arizona will not run its own health-insurance exchange as required under ‘Obamacare,’ clearing the way for the federal government to run the state program. Brewer said there are just too many questions about the
The Supreme Court is set to meet behind closed doors Friday to decide whether or not to take on any of the 10 pending Defense of Marriage Act cases. One of the cases that might be up for review is
Lawsuit Asserts Unconstitutional Policy Unfairly Targets Young Immigrants PHOENIX – A coalition of civil rights organizations today filed a class-action lawsuit challenging Arizona’s unconstitutional policy denying driver’s licenses to a specific class of immigrant youth even though they have grown
A Mexican beauty queen killed over the weekend in a shootout between suspected drug traffickers and soldiers had a gun in her hands during the confrontation and was being used as a human shield, a federal official said Tuesday. Maria Susana Flores
By Joe Henke Cronkite News Cyber un-tax The 10 states with the highest amounts of potential sales-tax revenues lost to online or catalog sales in 2012, according to a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures: • California: $4.159
By Sarah PringleCronkite News Arizona v. California: •State sales tax: Arizona: 5.6 percent, effective Jan. 1; California: 7.5 percent, effective Jan. 1.•Corporate tax rate: Arizona: 6.968 percent; California: 8.84 percent.•Income tax: Arizona: top rate of 4.54 percent; California: top rate
Photo by Alexander Arroyos President John F. Kennedy was supposed to just stop by and wave hello. Instead a group of eager Latinos persuaded him to come inside and speak to a packed room of Mexican-American civil rights activists. And
By Khara Persad Cronkite News WASHINGTON – Holiday spending is expected to increase by 3.5 to 4 percent this year, as a rising number of consumers plan to spend more and fewer expect to pull back, according to a new
The State Department has issued a new travel warning for Mexico, warning U.S. to avoid unnecessary travel south of the border in most but not all Mexican states, particularly at night.The new caution, which supersedes one posted in February, notes
