Stacey Barchenger
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Reporter covering Arizona’s @GovernorHobbs and @AZAGMayes for The Arizona Republic | @azcentral. Story ideas welcome. stacey.barchenger@arizonarepublic.com
Phoenix, AZ
Joined November 2009
RT @maryjpitzl: 2 arrested on suspicion of pregnant teen's death, including baby's adult father via @azcentral.
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The 16-year-old was impregnated by a 36-year-old man now suspected of her death, Phoenix police said.
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Response from DHS today on @GovernorHobbs' Thursday request for reimbursement of border related costs: "DHS responds to official requests through official channels.".via @azcentral.
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The Big Beautiful Bill includes funding for certain border-related expenses incurred after former President Joe Biden’s inauguration day.
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Arizona wants an about $760 million reimbursement from Trump administration for border work since Biden’s Inauguration Day. via @azcentral.
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The Big Beautiful Bill includes funding for certain border-related expenses incurred after former President Joe Biden’s inauguration day.
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The Arizona Republic / @azcentral printing will move to Las Vegas and Phoenix facility will be closed.
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The final copies of The Arizona Republic printed in Phoenix will roll off the presses Oct. 5.
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AZ @GovernorHobbs says the state is “going to do everything we can to help support managing (the Dragon Bravo) fire and then get to rebuilding." She goes to DC next week to talk to federal fire response leaders. via @azcentral
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Amid scrutiny of Grand Canyon fire, forest experts say managed burns are still needed. A good read from Brandon Loomis of @azcenvironment & @azcentral
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Political leaders seek an investigation into the Dragon Bravo Fire, but experts urge careful thought.
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RT @taylorseely95: Mayes knows the value of Arizona's open meeting law: She was a reporter who used it, a corporation commissioner subject….
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Earlier this year, 93 complaints were closed as a matter of "prosecutorial discretion," according to Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes' office.
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RT @maryjpitzl: Arizona Democrats set to decide fate of Robert Branscomb, the embattled state party chair via @azce….
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The estimated 700 members of the party's statewide committee are scheduled to meet on July 16 to decide whether to retain Chair Robert Branscomb II.
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New: @AZAGMayes' office closed nearly 100 open meeting law complaints without investigation this year. Mayes blames her predecessor and a budget cut; her critics say it's a dereliction of duty and she's distracted by lawsuits against Trump.via @azcentral.
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Earlier this year, 93 complaints were closed as a matter of "prosecutorial discretion," according to Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes' office.
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National Park Service says wildfire that burned Grand Canyon Lodge was expertly handled. But Arizona lawmakers and leaders from both parties want an investigation. By @PerryVandell via @azcentral
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The fire that burned for days on the North Rim of Grand Canyon before it became uncontrollable was "expertly handled," the National Park Service said.
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RT @raystern: "Acknowledging the House's recent battle to reduce spending in the new state budget, (House Speaker) Montenegro noted the pro….
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A project of House Speaker Steve Montenegro, the studio in the basement of the House chamber opened just as lawmakers were heading home for the year.
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As of earlier this year, 2/3 of the shipping containers used to build the wall were still for sale to the highest bidder. AZ has recouped $1.4 million of the cost so far. My story at the link.
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Roughly two years on, a majority of the shipping containers that once formed a barrier wall at Arizona's southern border are still for sale.
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AZ @GovernorHobbs says she's “looking forward to getting paid back" and "can't imagine us not asking" for reimbursement for cost to put shipping containers at border during Ducey admin. Money is in Trump's budget bill. Background via @azcentral:
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A new fund earmarks $10 billion for states that paid for border barriers or other security measures under President Joe Biden.
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Gnaw and order: An imperiled Arizona river gets help from relocated beavers via @azcentral.
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A pair of relocated beavers are helping restore disappearing wetland habitat along the San Pedro River in a new project by Arizona Game and Fish.
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From @raystern: A nonprofit legal group is challenging a $2 million state appropriation to horse racing, making it clear in an email to the @AZAGMayes' Office this wouldn't be its first rodeo. via @azcentral.
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A judge's ruling "provides a perfect example of the problematic nature of these horse-racing appropriations," attorneys told the AZ attorney general.
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AZ Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick: "Due process is the most foundational legal principle protecting individual liberty in Western civilization. It dates back to the Magna Carta. It does not deserve to be in quote marks." By @taylorseely95 @azcentral.
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Asked what a world without judicial independence would look like, Justice Clint Bolick offered an ominous answer. "It looks like authoritarianism."
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RT @maryjpitzl: Trump-backed Big Beautiful Bill passes. Here's how Arizona's GOP congressmen voted via @azcentral.
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President Trump had pressed lawmakers to send the bill to his desk for a signature by July 4.
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I got to guest host The Gaggle @azcpodcasts with @maryjpitzl this week, talking to Arizona @GovernorHobbs on the state’s bipartisan budget, what she’s gotten done in 3 years, and looming funding cuts from the feds.
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Gov. Katie Hobbs joins The Gaggle to talk about what she passed, her relationship across the aisle and her plans heading into a reelection year.
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From @GantzTori: "A series of bills @GovernorHobbs signed into law this year addresses those issues by playing into the priorities of far-right organizations which have shaped Trump-era domestic policy."
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The bills identified by LOOKOUT and Arizona Mirror echo language from groups like The Heritage Foundation.
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From @maryjpitzl on @azdemparty drama: "But given increasing concerns about the state party's spending patterns, coupled with scant fundraising, it appears to be a rebuke of the party chair.".via @azcentral.
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Top Arizona Democrats censured party Chair Robert Branscomb and moved campaign operations out of his control ahead of a potential vote to remove him.
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