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On its face, Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem’s bill to nudge federal lands into state management is not about transferring ownership. Critics detect a ruse. HB 2547, a Republican-backed measure that would create a new state agency to manage federal public lands, cleared the House last week along party lines. It now sits in the Senate, where […]

PHOENIX — Employers would be able to pay full-time students less than Arizona’s minimum wage under legislation given preliminary approval in the state House on Wednesday. The bill, which is likely to be challenged in court if it becomes law, seeks to get around the 2016 ballot measure that raised the minimum wage in phases