BY LINDA BENTLEY | DECEMBER 19, 2012
Both towns’ mayors running unopposed
Seven candidates vie for six Carefree Council seats; 12 compete for six seats in Cave Creek
CAREFREE/CAVE CREEK – Although former Carefree Councilman Bob Coady pulled a packet to run for mayor and former Councilman Jim Van Allen pulled a packet to run for council, neither one turned in petition signatures and will not be running.
BY LINDA BENTLEY | DECEMBER 19, 2012
Implementation of Obamacare facing more hurdles
‘[T]he realities of implementation will provide many avenues for ongoing resistance’
WASHINGTON – The extended Dec. 14 deadline has come and gone for state governments to decide whether or not they would create their own state-run health insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, that would allow individuals to purchase private health insurance if they didn’t receive health insurance from their employers.
BY LINDA BENTLEY | DECEMBER 19, 2012
Aggravated assault, other charges lands teen in jail for Christmas
CAVE CREEK – Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic violence call Monday afternoon at the Village Apartments located at 6434 E Cave Creek Rd., where a woman in her teens was being held against her will.
BY LINDA BENTLEY | DECEMBER 19, 2012
Drawing of lots becomes regular practice for Cave Creek
CAVE CREEK – Mayor Vincent Francia commenced Monday night’s council meeting with a moment of silence for the Newtown, Conn. victims.
BY CURTIS FRANTZ | DECEMBER 19, 2012
Obama's big Michigan right-to-work lie: Lower wages
The president says right-to-work laws mean "the right to work for less money." So how does he explain the fact that incomes are up in RTW states while forced unionism is a proven job killer?
Campaigning Monday in Michigan as it stood poised to become the nation's 24th right-to-work state, President Obama spoke the exact opposite of the truth to union workers at a Daimler Detroit Diesel plant in the birthplace of organized labor.
