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The article offers information related to the focus of the U.S. Senator, Mark Kelly's political campaign on gun control law in the U.S.

This article presents information about the reassessment of residences for real estate tax purposes because of the drop in the value of homes across the United States. In Maricopa County, Arizona, most of the 1 million homes will be reassessed downwards. People know that housing values are dropping and are requesting reassessments.

The article discusses the arrest in El Mirage, Arizona, of Neil H. Rodreick II, a convicted sex offender who was posing as a 7th grader named Casey Price. Three men posing as his relatives, Lonnie Stiffler, Robert J. Snow, and Brian Nellis, were arrested on similar charges of fraud and failing to register as sex offenders. Rodreick's public defender, Janet R. Lincoln, did not return phone calls.

From Las Vegas to Connecticut, Congressional Democrats stepped into vegetable aisles, parking lots and office lobbies Friday to meet with constituents, less than a week after Representative Gabrielle Giffords was critically wounded in a shooting rampage at an informal gathering outside a supermarket in Tucson. In gentle defiance of the security fears -- both for themselves and the voters who come to see them -- some lawmakers made a special effort on Friday to schedule a ''Congress on Your Corner'' event, designed to encourage free-ranging chatter with residents of their district. Others considered the future of these gatherings, with some trepidation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Arizona is not a world apart, but its political culture has often resided at a distance from much of the nation. But after the fatal shooting of six that left Representative Gabrielle Giffords critically injured, Arizona has shifted from a place on the political fringe to symbol of a nation whose political discourse has lost its way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Unusual is a relative term in American political life, but Representative Gabrielle Giffords fits the bill: avid equestrian and motorcycle enthusiast, repository of arcane health care data, successful Democrat elected three times in a Republican Congressional district, French horn player and wife of an astronaut. Ms. Giffords, who was shot and critically wounded while meeting with constituents in her district in southern Arizona on Saturday, is widely admired and liked in her state and the nation's capital for more than her political smarts. Friends and associates describe her as the first person to arrange a party for a departing colleague, the one who will walk you across the Capitol complex to make sure you know your way, the person whom even former political opponents call a friend. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The backdrops differ -- a cactus for Arizona, some lovely fall leaves for Pennsylvania -- but the message, delivered by a series of nervous-looking older Americans, is uniform: Democratic Congressional candidates voted for billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare (or, if they were not in office, would have) and let their constituents down. From Florida to California, one of the most prevalent political advertisements this year accuses Democrats of slashing $500 billion from Medicare, the government health care program for the elderly, as part of the health care law passed by Congress last spring. Dozens of candidates have felt the heat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARKER, Ariz. -- He still tells the story about the call he got at 2 a.m. from the woman in Chandler who was upset about changes in her garbage pick up, and the ossified joke concerning two Irish brothers (''The only ethnic group in America you can still joke about'') boozed up at a bar. Just as he did in 2008, and 2000, and most likely in the tender years of his earliest campaigns here -- long before ''that one,'' maverick, and not-a-maverick -- he takes extra time for veterans, freshly scrubbed little kids and older women who wait patiently at the back of a senior center with one of his many books and a camera. He still calls the room ''my friends.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BOULDER CITY, Nev. -- Generations of photo albums are filled with images of children squinting in front of the enormous canyon here, one of the greatest engineering feats in America's history. Now, an architectural epilogue to the Hoover Dam is nearly complete: a 1,060-foot, twin-rib concrete bridge floating majestically over the Colorado River. The bridge will provide the first new viewing spot accessible by foot since the dam was built over seven decades ago and, at long last, traffic relief for those who have to cross the dam. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LOS ANGELES -- The West may not be the geographic center of the country, but these days it sits at the heart of its political culture. Last week, California voters, fed up with primaries that produce polarizing candidates, chose a new system in which the top two vote-getters of a primary race -- no matter their party -- face off in the general election. In its primary on Tuesday, Nevada set the stage for the ultimate test of what voters can tolerate least -- Democratic incumbents or right-of-mainstream upstarts. The national conversation about immigration -- one that had been marginalized nationally and avoided in Washington -- has been restarted, and reframed, in Arizona over the last month. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LOS ANGELES -- Republican lawmakers and candidates are increasingly divided over illegal immigration -- torn between the need to attract Latino support, especially at the ballot box, and rallying party members who support tougher action. Arizona's new measure, which requires that the police check the documents of anyone they stop or detain whom they suspect of being in the country illegally, has forced politicians far and wide to take a stance. But unlike in Washington, where a consensus exists among establishment Republicans, the fault lines in the states -- where the issue is even more visceral and immediate -- are not predictable. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PHOENIX -- Arizona is well accustomed to the derision of its countrymen. The state resisted adopting Martin Luther King's birthday as a holiday years after most other states embraced it. The sheriff in its largest county forces inmates to wear pink underwear, apparently to assault their masculinity. Residents may take guns almost anywhere, but they may not cut down a cactus. The rest of the nation may scoff or grumble, but Arizona, one of the last truly independent Western outposts, carries on. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LOS ANGELES -- A powerful earthquake southeast of Tijuana shook Southern California on Sunday afternoon, damaging buildings in northern Mexico and border cities in California and Arizona and rattling a seismically sophisticated population as far north as Los Angeles and Las Vegas as chandeliers swayed, homes shook and the earth seemed to slide under the feet of people emerging from Easter church services for well over a minute. The 7.2-magnitude quake struck just after 3:30 p.m. local time, and was centered 16 miles southwest of Guadalupe Victoria in Baja California, Mexico, and about 110 miles southeast of Tijuana, said the United States Geological Survey. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PHOENIX -- Ben Quayle was born two days after his father, Dan, was first elected to Congress, and remembers well tossing a football with him on Capitol Hill between votes. He could have lived without the constant mocking of his family -- particularly the whole potato thing -- but his memories of Washington are largely gauzy and pleasant. Since his father, who served as vice president under President George Bush, exited the scene in 1993, the younger Mr. Quayle's life has been clearly apolitical -- he hasn't even voted in local elections since he registered here in 1997. But now he is getting into his father's old game. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PHOENIX -- The people of Arizona kept their upper lips stiff when officials mortgaged off the state's executive office tower and a ''Daily Show'' crew rolled into town to chronicle the transaction in mocking tones. They remained calm as lawmakers pondered privatizing death row. But then the state took away their toilets, and residents began to revolt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Desperate to save money, Arizona will transfer illegal immigrants who have been convicted of nonviolent crimes to federal custody for the last three months of their sentences, saving the state the cost of housing them. Currently, prisoners who are not illegal immigrants are eligible to leave prison 90 days before their sentences end and begin community service. Under the new plan, which begins Jan. 1, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency will take custody of the illegal immigrants pending deportation. The Arizona Department of Corrections said that a total of more than 1,200 prisoners would be moved this fiscal year and next, saving about $5.7 million. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One of the newest residents on Arizona's death row, a convicted serial killer named Dale Hausner, poked his head up from his television to look at several visitors strolling by, each of whom wore face masks and vests to protect against the sharp homemade objects that often are propelled from the cells of the condemned. It is a dangerous place to patrol, and Arizona spends $4.7 million each year to house inmates like Mr. Hausner in a super-maximum-security prison. But in a first in the criminal justice world, the state's death row inmates could become the responsibility of a private company. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In theory, Republicans in Arizona should be the happiest Republicans in the nation. Democrats failed in their insurgent bid last November to flip the Legislature -- even as Democrats in other states succeeded -- and the governor's office is now occupied by a Republican on a fluke when Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, left town for the Obama administration. But hard fiscal realities can put a strain on any marriage, and the new governor, Jan Brewer, is finding that life with the Legislature and a $3.4 billion budget deficit is several feathers shy of paradise. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The State Attorney General's Office has filed a lawsuit against the Phoenix Country Club, citing the club's policy of allowing only men in its well-appointed grill room as violating the state's civil rights act. According to the complaint, the club's policy of offering men one place to dine, a room with fine amenities conducive to business meetings, and women another, essentially a card room with a hotplate, is discriminatory. The suit was brought on behalf of two longtime club members, Logan Van Sittert and Barbara Van Sittert, who asked its board members in 2006 to allow women in the men's grill. According to the complaint, Mr. and Mrs. Van Sittert were subjected to verbal abuse and threats after their inquiry, including graffiti on the golf course that referred to Mrs. Van Sittert in vulgar terms. The attorney general is seeking compensatory damages for the Van Sitterts and a permanent injunction prohibiting the club from sex-based discrimination. In a statement, the club's board says it made several efforts to settle the matter with the attorney general outside of court but that ''based on the facts and the governing case law,'' the statement reads, ''we are confident that the matter will be resolved appropriately in that venue.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A convicted sex offender who enrolled in Arizona public schools posing as a 12-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to six felony accounts, including the exploitation of a minor, according to court documents. The man, Neil H. Rodreick II, 30, left, who shaved his body hair and wore makeup to disguise his age as he moved from school to school around Arizona from 2005 to 2007, also pleaded guilty on several counts of fraudulent schemes and failure to register as a sex offender. Three men who posed as Mr. Rodreick's uncle, grandfather and cousin, sharing a three-bedroom house with him in Arizona and enrolling him in schools, face similar charges. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A country club in Phoenix has expelled a member for speaking to The New York Times about the club's policy of forbidding women in its men's grillroom, a point of dispute among some members. Rusty Brown, an accomplished golfer at the upscale Phoenix Country Club, said Wednesday that he received a letter this week informing him that he had been expelled for ''multiple violations of club etiquette.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As a general rule, Senator John McCain does not alert the news media when he eats breakfast in Arizona. But on a Monday morning this month, Mr. McCain campaigned in a local diner, after a Sunday stop at his campaign office here, where he urged volunteers to ''make sure we get our voters registered, to make sure we are organized.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When the men of the Phoenix Country Club saw their feeding ways in peril, they did not tarry. Some sent nasty e-mail messages, hectored players on the fairway and, for good measure, urinated on a fellow club member's pecan tree. The targets of their ire were the women, and some men, who have dared to speak up against the club's policy of forbidding women in the men's grill room, a center of power dining in Phoenix. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A measles outbreak in Tucson has led Pima County to declare a state of public health emergency and begin setting up free immunization clinics in an effort to contain the illness, one rarely seen in the United States. Of the 17 infected residents, roughly half are children, many of them too young to have received the vaccine, and the oldest person to fall ill is 57, said Patti Woodcock, a spokeswoman for the Pima County Health Department. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the faces of those convicted for drunken driving are being flashed at public places in Phoenix, Arizona. Their photographs are being displayed on billboards. They have also been posted on the Web site StopDUIAZ.com. The program, a brainchild of Phoenix attorney Andrew P. Thomas, is meant to inform people about drunken-driving laws and deter the would-be offenders.

The article reports that the Maricopa County has become the highest seeker of death penalties in the U.S. after the appointment of Andrew P. Thomas as county attorney. Since the appointment of Thomas, the number of times that the office of attorney has sought the death penalty has doubled. The policy change had contributed in dealing with a backlog of capital cases.

The article presents information related to the Scottsdale, Arizona-based Cristopher Verde School District, which helps the residents of Arizona in evading property tax. The school district has no schools or teachers. Arizona state senator Linda Gray, who sponsored a legislative bill aimed at preventing formation of school districts without schools, indicated that the purpose of the school district is to avoid property taxes on their homes.

The article focuses on miscellaneous establishments which have been opened in Scottsdale, Arizona. A restaurant named Spangled Tavern is popular for its delicious food like crabby fried green tomatoes and Queen Creek pork chop with creamed corn pudding. The Kaz Bar offers 29,000 wine from more than 40 nations. The Hotel Valley Ho is situated at East Main Street and has a nice spa and a pool.

The Obama administration has decided to file a lawsuit to strike down a new Arizona law aimed at deporting illegal immigrants, thrusting itself into the fierce national debate over how the United States should enforce immigration policies. The federal government only occasionally intervenes forcefully in a state's affairs, and it carries significant political risks. With immigration continuing to be a hot issue in political campaigns across the country, the Arizona law, which grants the local police greater authority to check the legal status of people they stop, has become a rallying cry for the Tea Party and other conservative groups. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TUCSON -- Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, and 18 others were shot Saturday morning when a gunman opened fire outside a supermarket where Ms. Giffords was meeting with constituents. Six of the victims died, among them John M. Roll, the chief judge for the United States District Court for Arizona, and a 9-year-old girl, the Pima County sheriff, Clarence W. Dupnik, said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]