Amanda Crawford

Arizona’s Brewer Prevails in Bid Over Expanding Medicaid

bloomberg.com — Republican Governor Jan Brewer is poised for a hard-won victory against her party's legislative leaders after Arizona lawmakers gave preliminary approval to her plan to expand Medicaid in the state.

Phoenix Funding Sinks as Assessments Catch Up to Collapse

bloomberg.com — Home prices are soaring in metropolitan Phoenix. Yet for local governments that depend on property taxes, the bottom of the market has just arrived. The net assessed value of property in Maricopa County, Arizona 's largest by population, plunged to $32 billion for fiscal year 2014 -- the lowest level since 2006 and down from the peak of $49.7 billion in 2010, county figures show.

Arizona’s Brewer Labeled ’Traitor’ as She Pushes Medicaid

bloomberg.com — Arizona (STOAZ1)'s Republican Governor Jan Brewer has been known nationally as one of the most outspoken foes of President Barack Obama -- a Fox News regular, border hawk and states' rights advocate who once wagged her finger in the chief executive's face on a Phoenix-area tarmac.

Border Delays Cost U.S. $7.8 Billion as Fence Is Focus

bloomberg.com — Delays at U.S.-Mexico border crossings cost the U.S. economy $7.8 billion in 2011, as improvements have lagged behind traffic growth and the political focus has been on securing the rest of the border. The toll could balloon to $14.7 billion annually if the value of U.S.-Mexico truck trade reaches $463 billion by 2020 as predicted, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Border Delays Cost U.S. $7.8 Billion as Fence Is Focus

bloomberg.com — Delays at U.S.-Mexico border crossings cost the U.S. economy $7.8 billion in 2011, as improvements have lagged behind traffic growth and the political focus has been on securing the rest of the border. The toll could balloon to $14.7 billion annually if the value of U.S.-Mexico truck trade reaches $463 billion by 2020 as predicted, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Immigration Law Hangs on Securing Rugged Nogales Frontier

bloomberg.com — Alejandro Vega hiked five days through the Arizona desert and then toiled 10 years busing restaurant tables, building roads and cleaning manure out of horse corrals in the U.S. before his deportation in 2009. Now, facing the southern side of a 20-foot-tall copper-hued fence in the border city of Nogales, Mexico, he says he's ready to risk prison or death to get back in.