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Cuomos Medicaid Changes Are at Washingtons Mercy

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Depending on who is doing the talking these days, New York State is either a national model of how to curb Medicaid spending, or the nation’s prime example of Medicaid abuse...Representative Paul A. Gosar, who presided over the recent hearing as vice chairman of the oversight panel’s health subcommittee, called the payments “another brazen example of government…

Firefighters battle blaze in Tonto National Forest

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Firefighters Sunday were battling a 100-acre blaze burning twomiles from the Tonto Fish Hatchery in the Big Canyon area of the Tonto National Forest, officials said Sunday. The "Big Canyon Fire" was reported about 10:30 a.m. Sunday about 14 miles east of Payson in a rough and remote area of the forest, according to David Albo, Tonto National Forest spokesman. Click here to read

Gosar hosts hearing on Regional Haze Rule

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ST. JOHNS — Stating he asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to hold a public hearing in St. Johns and they refused, Congressman Paul Gosar took it upon himself to set up and host a public hearing on the controversial Regional Haze Rule. Held at the St. Johns High School auditorium on Friday, September 7, the public hearing was both recorded on video and transcribed. All…

How to Repair a Fire-Damaged Forest

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When this summer’s monsoons hit, officials from the Prescott National Forest worried. In May, the Gladiator Fire, near Crown King, destroyed a good part of the Forest. And the loss of vegetation can cause soil erosion. But Forest officials have been managing the burnt area to keep possible flooding down. And they’ve been having some success.Click here to read