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1 ALMANAC A2 AROUND TOWN A2 CLASSIFIEDS B6 COMICS B5 DEAR ABBY B5 LOTTERY A3 MOVIES A3 NATION A6 OBITUARIES A4 $1.50 Volume 72, Issue 269 A Lee Enterprises Newspaper Copyright 2018 Follow us online: facebook.com/ArizonaDailySun twitter.com@azds instagram.com/azdailysun See photos from a busy day on the immigration front AT AZDAILYSUN.COM DISCOVER DIGITAL SUNNY 91 53 FORECAST, A2 Thursday, June 21, 2018 azdailysun.com ADRIAN SKABELUND Sun Staff Reporter Flagstaff may be saying good- bye to the arched pedestrian bridge connecting the down- town public parking lot to Wheeler Park. The reason is not necessarily the dry rot that was discovered on one of the beams, causing a structural engineer to deem it unsafe and close it to pedestrian traffic. The wooden bridge, after all, is 30 years old and in need of re- placement. Instead, the location span- ning the Rio de Flag that will likely do in a new crossing. The bridge sits in a floodplain, where building regulations have gotten far stricter since the bridge was first built, says city spokesperson Claire Harper.

Be- cause of this, the estimated cost of replacing the bridge could be as much as a half-million dollars and possibly $1 million. (By comparison, the Matt Kelly Memorial Footbridge over Cedar Avenue spans four lanes of traffic, has wrought iron guardrail fencing and cost $806,000, with $100,000 com- ing from a state Heritage Fund grant.) Because of cost, the city may be looking at simply removing the Wheeler Park bridge for the safety of the public, Harper said, although there is not yet a time- line for when this may occur. ADRIAN SKABELUND Sun Staff Reporter The Flagstaff City Council approved the city budget for the final time Tuesday and raised the primary property tax levy by 7 percent for the second time in two years. For the owner of a home as- sessed at $300,000, the hike means $17 more in primary prop- erty taxes in 2019 than if the rate remained flat, said city finance director Brandi Suda. On a com- mercial property valued at $1 million, the change constitutes a $103 difference in the amount paid next year.

The cumulative levy increase catches the city up with how much the state legally allows a city to increase taxes each year. In Arizona, cities can raise the amount of money brought in by their primary property tax by 2 percent every year. If unused, these rate increases roll over so they can be used the next year, and for a number of years Flag- staff never took these tax rate increases. This changed in 2017 when council implemented a tax plan, originally proposed by former city manager Josh Copley, to fi- nally use the rate increases the city had ignored for so long. The plan raises the primary property Property taxes up 7 percent again JILL COLVIN AND COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON Bowing to pressure from anxious allies, President Donald Trump abruptly reversed himself Wednesday and signed an executive order halt- ing his policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained illegally crossing the U.S.

border. It was a dramatic turnaround for Trump, who has been insist- ing, wrongly, that his administra- tion had no choice but to separate families apprehended at the bor- der because of federal law and a court decision. The order does not end the policy that crimi- nally prosecutes all adults caught crossing the border illegally. But, at least for the next few weeks, it would keep families together while they are in custody, expedite their cases and ask the Defense Department to help house them. It also change anything yet for the some 2,300 children taken from their families since the policy was put into place.

The news in recent days has been dominated by searing images of children held in cages at border facilities, as well as audio record- ings of young children crying for their parents images that have Trump bows to pressure Ben shanahan, ARIZONA DAILY SUN Emry Pensinger, the Flagstaff Parks Supervisor, stands in front of the bridge connecting Wheeler Park and the Flagstaff Public Library Monday morning. Dry rot has forced its closure and possible removal Third in a multi-part series SETH BORENSTEIN AND STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) When it comes to global warming, Amer- political climate may have changed more than the over the past three decades. NASA scientist James Hansen put the world on notice about global warming on June 23, 1988. Looking back, he says: was sufficiently idealistic that I thought we would have a sen- sible bipartisan approach to the After all, Republicans and Democrats had worked together on an international agreement to fix the hole in the ozone layer. Republicans would later represent eight of the 20 co-sponsors on the first major bills to fight climate change in the 1980s and 1990s.

Yet 30 years after ini- tial warning, the issue is as much at the core of the politi- cal divide as abortion, same-sex marriage and immigration. Most Republican candidates today cannot speak the words let alone support policies to address it without risking a fierce political backlash from their base, which increasingly believes that man- made climate change is a liberal fantasy. virtually no space left for a climate change advocate in the Republican Party of 2018. Warming too hot to handle erIC JaMIsOn ASSOCIATED PRESS In this Aug. 10, 2009, file photo, former Sen.

Tim Wirth moderates the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0, in Las Vegas. $500K for this footbridge? Protesters not mollified Dozens at City Hall say zero tolerance, deterrence inhumane LOCAL A3 Story of a treaty Long Walk, Sacred Peaks define Treaty of 1868 ASK A RANGER B1 Pushing pair of 10s NAZ Elite runners tackle 10,000 meters in Des Moines, Boston SPORTS B1 FaMILy seParaTIOn ruLe Reversal halts policy but zero tolerance means more arrests a casualty in Trump crusade OPINION A5 Separated children will have long waits A8 say GOOdBye TO a dOWnTOWn LandMarK New floodplain rules likely doom rotting bridge replacement Flagstaff playing 2-year catchup Climate change now part of culture wars Please see CLIMaTe, Page A8 Please see TaXes, Page A8 Please see TruMP, Page A8.