A lot of people may not know that Arizona’s nickname “the Grand Canyon State” isn’t official. The Arizona Republic reports that the state House has voted overwhelmingly in favor of correcting that. The bill now goes to the state Senate, which so far hasn’t considered anything but budget bills.
State Historian Marshall Trimble told lawmakers that he wasn’t aware that the nickname wasn’t official until a California fifth grader e-mailed him about it.
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