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See HERE for today’s profile of the “quirky” town of Quartzsite, AZ in the Los Angeles Times.

Hi there, My name’s Mike and I’m currently living in State College, PA, or as you might want to refer to it, ”The other town where a box of old dynamite was just found.” This morning I was checking in on what was happening back home. After reading your coverage on the Parker dynamite, I thought that was going to …

Christina Kohn, an attorney with the Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, has written a scathing critique of the Town of Quartzsite for the Goldwater Institute Daily. In the piece, she calls the town’s election rules “unlawful.” Here is the piece in full. The Town of Quartzsite, Ariz., recently used unlawful restrictions to limit the choices of voters in a town …

The following letters to the Board of the Colorado River Sewage System Joint Venture were sent to Parker Live in public defense of the Joint Venture’s General Manager Andy Jones, who has been accused of improperly issuing himself a personal loan from the organization’s funds. The first was written by former resident Jerry McGuire, the second by Dr. Jeff Baird …

It’s the question many have been posing quietly while watching the news from Japan: Is there a chance of elevated radiation levels all the way here in the U.S.? The Arizona Health Department answers some questions, below. Q.  Will the radiation in Japan affect people in Arizona? A. The levels of radiation in Arizona resulting from the events in Japan …

An email from a reader asks about using federal funds paid to La Paz County to pay the debt to Yakima: John, From 1999 to 2210 about $10 million has been allocated to La Paz County from the Department of the Interior in Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) which has gone into the County general fund. Why can’t these …

KLPZ’s morning guy Keith Learn has a way to pay La Paz County’s debt to Yakima Company: medical marijuana. The County is expected to grant at least one special use permit for a marijuana dispensary under the state of Arizona’s new law permitting the use of marijuana for chronically ill patients. Recent public work sessions at the County and the …

Some Parker Live readers may be interested in this desert metropolis which never happened. AOL News reports on California City in 2011, the third-largest city footprint in California which never took off. Half a century ago, California City was advertised as the next great West Coast metropolis, a new retirement mecca that could rival Palm Springs. But 45 years after …

We owe $13 million to a man who’s out of patience. We have no extra money. How can we fix it? As La Paz County re-enters talks with Yakima Company after an attention-grabbing payroll crisis two weeks ago, speculation centers on what form those talks may take. Several ways to settle the County’s $13 million debt to Jim Willett have …