By Jon Hutchinson / CVBugle.com
July 7, 2009

COTTONWOOD — A new 6,500-square-foot Community Health Services clinic is coming to Cottonwood, thanks, in part, to a federal stimulus grant. In fact, the Yavapai County Health Department and the Prescott Free Clinic, which are partners in the Yavapai Community Health Service operations, have been trying to work out plans to build a new clinic in Cottonwood.

Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick said, “Rural Arizonans are being underserved by our current health care system and this sort of investment helps us reduce our costs and improve our quality of care.”

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By Mary Jo Pitzi, Casey Newton and Matthew Benson / The Arizona Republic
July 6, 2009

Lawmakers made a temporary fix to the state budget Monday to ensure continued funding for public education, but a bigger battle awaits as they face a deficit of at least $2.1 billion for the current year.

A rare wave of bipartisan action carried the day as lawmakers scrambled to restore the public-school system’s $3.2 billion budget. They also added funding that again qualifies the state for federal stimulus money. Legislators still must negotiate a plan to balance the overall 2010 budget.

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By Joanna Dodder Nellans / The Daily Courier
June 28, 2009

To Donald Nelson, a Hopi who grew up in Prescott, Homol’ovi is not just another state park.

“Homol’ovi State Park to me is a very special place, in that it reaffirms the history of our migration as Hopi clans,” Nelson explained of the park, which sits along the Little Colorado River about 60 miles south of the Hopi mesas.

“I would not be sitting here today if it were not for the strength, the courage and the tenacity of my ancestors to live and to survive in such a rugged environment, guided by a very strong faith and guided by the assurance that we would be taken care of if we were to follow certain instructions,” Nelson said.

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By Dan Levy / Bloomberg.com
July 7, 2009

July 7 (Bloomberg) — Home prices may fall in more than half of the largest U.S. cities through the first quarter of 2011 as unemployment and foreclosures rise, mortgage insurer PMI Group Inc. said.

Thirty of the 50 biggest metropolitan areas have at least a 75 percent chance of lower prices through March 31, 2011, Walnut Creek, California-based PMI said in a report today. The decline is likely to spread to “all regions of the nation” from California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona, the states most affected by the housing slump, PMI said.

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