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		<title>Local PBS station airs segment on plight of Arizona State Parks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Arizona State Budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Source: Horizon, KAET, Ted Simons, 9-30-2009] &#8212; As PBS and Ken Burns examine the rich scenic and cultural values of our national parks, KAET&#8217;s Horizon focuses its lens on Arizona State Parks.  We’ll preview an upcoming report from ASU’s Morrison Institute that considers the role and future of Arizona’s 30 State Parks.  Guests include State [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azheritage.wordpress.com&blog=3691280&post=1596&subd=azheritage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona treasurer says changes needed for state budget to be fixed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Arizona Lottery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Local Parks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Brewer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Source: Parker Pioneer, John Gutekunst, 10-8-2009] &#8212; Arizona State Treasurer Dean Martin said he hated to be the bearer of bad news when he spoke Wednesday evening at the Parker Community/Senior Center.  He said the state is broke, and he said bad decisions on the part of state officials had more to do with this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azheritage.wordpress.com&blog=3691280&post=1592&subd=azheritage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery Garden starting to take shape at Esperanza</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Game & Fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heritage Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Thayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coty Delores Mirnda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristen Sells]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Source: Arizona Republic, Coty Delores Miranda, 10-6-2009] &#8212; After more than two years in the planning, the Kyrene de la Esperanza Discovery Garden and Outdoor Classroom is getting underway with a pond building and tree planting set for Saturday.  Volunteers are still being sought to help all day or anytime from 9 a.m. to 4 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azheritage.wordpress.com&blog=3691280&post=1589&subd=azheritage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona State Parks unfreezes grants; funding allows 53 projects to resume</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Source: Arizona Republic, Amy B. Wang, 10-04-2009] &#8212; The budget-beleaguered Arizona State Parks office recently released more than $6.1 million in Heritage Fund grants to benefit historic-preservation projects, trail maintenance, and local and regional parks.  In total, 53 projects around Arizona can move forward with the release of grant money that had been frozen for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azheritage.wordpress.com&blog=3691280&post=1586&subd=azheritage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona State Parks restores funding to Heritage Fund grant projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Heritage Fund]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Source: Sedona.biz, 9-30-2009] &#8212; On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) gave a favorable review to the Agency&#8217;s request to backfill cuts made to its operating budget.  With the Committee&#8217;s favorable review, the Parks Board unsuspended Heritage Fund grants that had been frozen in February 2009.  &#8221;We are extremely happy to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azheritage.wordpress.com&blog=3691280&post=1583&subd=azheritage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona state parks take big hit: Grant funding for outdoor capital-improvement projects at issue</title>
		<link>http://azheritage.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/arizona-state-parks-take-a-big-hit-grant-funding-for-outdoor-capital-improvement-projects-at-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alston House]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Decaluwe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Bell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Wooten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyle Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost Dutchman State Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prospector Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen Creek]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Source: Independent Newspapers, Terrance Thornton 9-28-2009] &#8212; The Arizona State Parks Department found its expected $8.6 million general fund allocation this fiscal year on the cutting room floor due to a $4 billion deficit to the state budget.  In the face of such severe cuts, we just cannot continue to operate as we did before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azheritage.wordpress.com&blog=3691280&post=1576&subd=azheritage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Long-term fix needed for Arizona State Parks</title>
		<link>http://azheritage.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/viewpoint-long-term-fix-needed-for-arizona-state-parks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Arizona State Parks Board]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Source: Editorial Board, Arizona Republic, 9-22-2009] &#8212; Funding will flow to pay state park rangers and stalled projects will start again &#8212; if a state budget committee gives the go-ahead today.  Arizona State Parks plans to backfill some of its crippling budget cuts this year by tapping cash in the Heritage Fund: $6.5 million for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azheritage.wordpress.com&blog=3691280&post=1571&subd=azheritage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open letter to Arizona&#8217;s Joint Legislative Budget Committee</title>
		<link>http://azheritage.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/open-letter-to-arizonas-joint-legislative-budget-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Arizona State Parks Board]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Chairman Kavanagh and members of the JLBC:
The Arizona Heritage Alliance&#8217;s mission is to protect and educate about the Heritage Fund, its purposes, potential, and accomplishments, and to ensure that the Fund&#8217;s money is spent as it was established by initiative statute concieved for and by the people in 1990.
With that mission in mind, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azheritage.wordpress.com&blog=3691280&post=1568&subd=azheritage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Action Alert! Call/write JBLC before Tuesday 2:30 p.m., September 22</title>
		<link>http://azheritage.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/action-alert-callwrite-jblc-before-tuesday-230-p-m-september-22/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Arizona State Parks to reinstate and refund the Heritage Fund grants that were de-obligated (i.e., reneged) in February 2009 (1%-95% completed), the JLBC (Joint Legislative Budget Committee) has to approve the Arizona State Parks fund transfers.
JLBC will meet on Tuesday, September 22 at 2:30 p.m. in House Hearing Room.  However, there is no call [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azheritage.wordpress.com&blog=3691280&post=1566&subd=azheritage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Shame on us for not protesting sooner and louder</title>
		<link>http://azheritage.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/viewpoint-shame-on-us-for-not-protesting-sooner-and-louder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Source: Ellen Vojnic, Campe Verde Bugle] &#8212; Once again I am reading about the legislature robbing the money allocated to the State Parks system.  A large portion of that money comes from voter-approved measures to support our state treasures.  How can the elected representatives decide to just take that money for other purposes without putting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=azheritage.wordpress.com&blog=3691280&post=1445&subd=azheritage&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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