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Stories by Ellie Borst
Posted Aug 3, 2020, 3:49 pm
Ellie Borst & Farah Eltohamy/Cronkite News
Rep. David Schweikert has admitted to 11 counts of campaign finance violations, misuse of congressional office funds and pressuring legislative staff to do campaign work, the House Ethics Committee said Thursday.... Read more»
Posted Jul 30, 2020, 11:25 am
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
When Gov. Doug Ducey and Arizona Schools Superintendent Kathy Hoffman ordered state schools to open for some type of in-person instruction on Aug. 17, they gave school administrators the flexibility to design a plan that best suits their districts. What they didn’t give them were directions.... Read more»
Posted Jul 22, 2020, 1:54 pm
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected a long-simmering challenge to Proposition 123, the voter-approved 2016 measure that is set to redirect an estimated $3.5 billion to Arizona public schools over a decade.... Read more»
Posted Jul 20, 2020, 2:34 am
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
Arizona Schools Superintendent Kathy Hoffman said Wednesday that the already delayed Aug. 17 start of in-person classes may have to be pushed back again in light of continuing concerns about COVID-19 safety.... Read more»
Posted Jul 15, 2020, 11:27 pm
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
That ICE order that anyone here on a student visa would have to go home if their school was offering online instruction only this fall, announced just last week, was quickly challenged in court by 18 states and by universities across the country – including all three public universities in Arizona. ... Read more»
Posted Jul 8, 2020, 12:46 pm
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
A White House panel of parents, teachers and school administrators said Tuesday that reopening schools this fall should be the nation’s top priority, for the wellbeing of students and parents and as a move to “stabilize our society.”... Read more»
Posted Jul 7, 2020, 9:59 am
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
After a prolonged government shutdown cut into their revenues in 2019, business owners around the Grand Canyon National Park said 2020 appeared to be on track to being a bounceback year for them.... Read more»
Posted Jun 25, 2020, 1:16 pm
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
Two Arizona tribes and a Phoenix-based advocacy group joined a pair of lawsuits this week to reverse a Trump administration clean-water rule that critics said would open the “vast majority of Arizona’s waterways” to pollution and degradation.... Read more»
Posted Jun 10, 2020, 2:01 pm
Ellie Borst, Lisa Diethelm & Farah Eltohamy/Cronkite News
Surging numbers of COVID-19 cases in Arizona have pushed some hospital intensive-care units to their limits in recent weeks, but health experts around the state said hospitals still have room to adapt – for now.... Read more»
Posted Jun 5, 2020, 1:20 pm
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
Arizona tribal leaders told House lawmakers Tuesday that moves to reopen national parks are being made without needed health safety measures to protect tribal members or park visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic.... Read more»
Posted May 29, 2020, 4:35 pm
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
Federal regulators have given a Phoenix company the green light to study a hydropower project for the Little Colorado River, what opponents fear is a first step toward “destroying incredibly rare, beautiful, sacred resources.”... Read more»
Posted May 28, 2020, 4:11 pm
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
Phoenix dipped slightly in a national ranking of solar power capacity, even as the total amount of power generated and the power per person increased from last year, according to a national report.... Read more»
Posted May 25, 2020, 1:29 pm
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
In a bow to COVID-19 health concerns, the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services will be going online with the annual Memorial Day ceremony and related events at the state’s three military cemeteries.... Read more»