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- Despite critics, Tea Party influence impressive
- Commentary by Linda Turley-Hansen
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- It’s heartening to see the Republican Party in the makeover seat. The old girl is in bad shape and so are a bunch of her incumbents who’ve gone off to sleep in their rockers. Ditto for the Dems.
The recent Massachusetts’ upset... Full story
- Solutions for Phoenix’s billion dollar labor bubble
- Commentary by Sal DiCiccio
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- Phoenix, like every level of government in this economy, is facing a huge budget shortfall – about $245 million over two years – which requires either a lot more money or a much different way of doing business.
The former isn’t... Full story
- What Ahwatukee Foothills residents are saying about President Barack Obama’s speech this week
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- Stop blaming Bush
The voters of America let themselves be dazzled by political correctness and proceeded to elect a president with no experience. Now we’re stuck.
President Obama opined, “I’d rather be a really good one-term... Full story
- These streets weren’t made for walkin’
- Commentary by Emily Badger
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- Several officials came to the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting in Washington last week fresh off a visit last month to the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen. What they saw was promising, a couple quipped (independently... Full story
- Coincidence? Two campaign finance laws gutted almost simultaneously
- Commentary by Ted Prezelski
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- A bit funny the temporal proximity of the Supreme Court’s ruling on corporate money and our own state’s ruling on Clean Elections, isn’t it?
I had a conversation with a Republican legislator a while back about Clean Elections. In... Full story
- Haiti’s tragedy could provide an opportunity for improved U.S.-Cuban relations
- Commentary by Dr. Julie Feinsilver
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- Why is there almost no media coverage of Cuba’s medical assistance to Haiti? The Cuban government has provided free health care to the Haitian people since 1998, as well as many full scholarships to its medical schools. It also should be noted... Full story
- H1N1 didn’t infect as many as feared
- Commentary by Dr. Mark Tosca
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- Will there be a third wave of the H1N1 pandemic?
It depends on whom you ask. Three out of the last four flu pandemics did occur in three waves. But according to an informal poll of flu experts by TIME magazine, only half said there would be another... Full story
- The case for profiling terrorists
- Commentary by C.W. Griffin
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- The systemic failure to coordinate counter-terrorist intelligence, so painfully obvious in the luckily thwarted Christmas bombing plot, has strengthened the case for profiling terrorist suspects. It’s one issue that might partially placate a... Full story
- Hope and change in 2010
- Commentary by Diane Markins
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- Hope and change. We all need to believe in those things. Not rhetoric or campaign slogans. This isn’t about politics; I’m talking about life. Unless your life is 100 percent perfect, this applies to you.
Every one of us could use... Full story
- No ‘silver bullet’ for budget deficit
- Commentary by Rae Waters
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- Solving Arizona’s current budget and economic crisis, unfortunately, is a complex problem that will take much more than election-year sound bites, rigid ideology, and revisiting the same policies that brought us to where we stand today.... Full story
