VOL. 19  ISSUE NO. 23   |    JUNE 5 – 11, 2013

BY LINDA BENTLEY | JUNE 5, 2013

adam trenkNewly seated council elects Trenk as vice mayor

Wendt asked council to give the man who has been the town manager for 17 years a chance

CAVE CREEK – During Monday night’s council meeting at which the newly seated council was sworn in, Mayor Vincent Francia announced two women had to be rescued in Spur Cross that day and asked people to exercise caution during the summer months.

BY LINDA BENTLEY | JUNE 5, 2013

Cave Creek ushers in a new era of citizen spying and secrecy

CAVE CREEK – On Wednesday, May 22, councilman-elect Reg Monachino and Gabe Royer spent three hours outside Cave Creek Town Hall, apparently observing who came and went.

BY LINDA BENTLEY | JUNE 5, 2013

Two accidents result in criminal charges

Herskovitz was arrested in 1995 for possession of a narcotic drug, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia

CAVE CREEK – On May 23, Cave Creek resident John Hoeppner came across an abandoned blue Lincoln SUV rolled over on School House Road approximately one mile north of Cave Creek Road at 8:30 p.m.

BY LINDA BENTLEY | JUNE 5, 2013

Taxpayers reign victorious against CCUSD93

‘No bill … or law impairing the obligation of a contract, shall ever be enacted’

PHOENIX – On May 29, taxpayers won a victory when the Arizona Supreme Court denied Cave Creek Unified School District 93’s petition for review in the case of Jayne Friedman/Richard Bail v. Cave Creek Unified School District.

JUNE 5, 2013

Adult stem cells could hold key to curing Type 1 Diabetes

Combining cells from bone marrow with new drug restores insulin production

Millions of people with Type 1 Diabetes depend on daily insulin injections to survive. They would die without the shots because their immune system attacks the very insulin-producing cells it was designed to protect.

JUNE 5, 2013

Brewer holds up religious freedom bill until Medicaid expansion is adopted

FAIRFAX, Va. – Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens issued the following statement condemning Arizona Governor Jan Brewer for vetoing legislation protecting religious freedoms in lieu of the Arizona House voting to expand Medicaid under the new health care law ...

JUNE 5, 2013

TransPac Aviation Academy releases names of accident victims

School establishes funds for fallen colleagues

PHOENIX – Paul Brownell, director of standardization at TransPac Aviation Academy, and Basil Onuferko, a certified flight instructor at TransPac both died Friday morning, May 31, when their plane collided with another about 15 miles northwest of the Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix.

JUNE 5, 2013

The United Republican Alliance of Principled Conservatives formed to combat Brewer’s expansion of Obamacare

On May 28 former Arizona State Senators Frank Antenori and Ron Gould formed a committee named “The United Republican Alliance of Principled Conservatives,” or URAPC.


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