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May 29, 2012
| Havasu News
DHFD wild land firefighters return from Gladiator Fire
Issues: Wildfire Prevention
Five Desert Hills Fire Department wild land firefighters returned from the Gladiator Fire, in the Prescott National Forest.
May 25, 2012
| Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Wildfire Evacuees Can Return
Issues: Wildfire Prevention
CROWN KING — A historic mining town that was evacuated by a wildfire will be reopened to the public on Memorial Day with a change in scenery. Full-time residents and business owners from Crown King and other, smaller communities to the north were allowed to return home Friday
May 17, 2012
| Reuters
Crews battle to contain raging Arizona wildfires
Issues: Wildfire Prevention
About 350 residents of Crown King in central Arizona remained under evacuation orders after another blaze, the fast-moving Gladiator Fire, burned nearly 9 square miles (22 square kilometers) of ponderosa pine, brush and chaparral in the Prescott National Forest
May 17, 2012
| CNN
Arizona Wildfires: The Sunflower wildfire burns on
Issues: Wildfire Prevention
Arizona has four separate wildfires burning more then 15,000 acres currently. The largest is the Sunflower wildfire ripping through 12,000 acres in the Tonto National Forest just 20 miles south of the town of Payson.
May 17, 2012
Arizona wildfires: Gladiator Fire more than doubles in size
Issues: Wildfire Prevention
The Gladiator Fire more than doubled in size to roughly 5,400 acres Wednesday as it roared through the heart of the Bradshaw Mountains, claiming one more home and moving ever closer to others in the remote community of Crown King.
May 14, 2012
| Tri-Valley Central
Gosar sits down with local business leaders to discuss concerns
Issues: Economy and Jobs, Impact of Excessive Regulations, Role of Government, Transparency, and Civility, Tax Reform
On Wednesday, May 2, Congressman Paul Gosar joined local business leaders and community members from Eloy at Robson Ranch for a discussion on the state of local business and the economy as a whole.
May 3, 2012
| Arizona Daily Sun
U.S. House corrects survey error
Issues: Role of Government, Transparency, and Civility
The House overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday to correct a decades-old surveying error that put part of some people's homes inside the boundaries of the Coconino National Forest. Under the bill, the government would sell 2.67 acres of the forest for $20,000 to owners of 26 homes in Mountainaire, parts of which were located on federal land after a 1960 government surveying error that was only discovered in 2007. Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Doney Park, who sponsored the bill, called it a "no-brainer."
May 3, 2012
| Landline Magazine
Arizona, Nevada seek interstate designation for 'Canamex Corridor'
Issues: Transportation
U.S. representatives from Arizona and Nevada are calling on Congress to designate a new Interstate 11 in the pending highway bill. They say I-11 is the missing piece in the Canamex Corridor, an all-interstate trade route from the Arizona border with Mexico through five states to the Montana border with Canada. The designation for I-11 is currently part of the U.S. Senate’s two-year surface transportation bill, S1813.
Apr 23, 2012
| Cronkite News
Committee grills Defense, Homeland Security on border security
Issues: Defense and National Security
Pentagon and Homeland Security officials assured a House subcommittee Tuesday that they can continue border security despite a reduction in the National Guard from 1,200 to 300 soldiers, who will focus on support for aerial border surveillance. That drew skeptical questioning from Arizona Reps. Ben Quayle, R-Phoenix, and Paul Gosar, R-Flagstaff, who accused the agencies of a lack of urgency over border security...
Apr 4, 2012
| Washington Times
Arizona lawmakers question health pact
Issues: Health
Seven members of Arizona's congressional delegation have demanded the Department of Defense answer questions about its decision to select UnitedHealth Group over a Phoenix-based company for a lucrative military health-care contract.
