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'Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars': interview with Sylvia Longmire
Sylvia Longmire's new book Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars has just been released and is available in bookstores today. She is a retired Air Force captain and Special Agent with exte ...
27 Sep, 2011
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9 min read
Renewable Energy taking off in Arizona
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords hosted a solar summit last Wednesday which discussed solar power policy goals for Arizona. Two fascinating points emerged from the discussions.First, many thought the earl ...
19 Sep, 2011
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2 min read
Wall St. protest and occupation enters third day
Demonstrators gathered in downtown Manhattan on Saturday to protest the influence of Wall St. and corporate interests in our nation's politics. The assembly, which has occupied a park in the fin ...
19 Sep, 2011
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4 min read
Hunting in the city: new regulations please sportsmen, wildlife officials
Tomorrow will mark the close of dove season in the greater Phoenix Metropolitan area. The past two weeks have been a trial run for a new state law that has opened over one million acres of city-owned ...
14 Sep, 2011
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2 min read
Gun walking, then grenade-gate: what's next?
The ATF and/or the US Attorney's office in Phoenix allowed at least 1,400 guns to be smuggled from the US to drug cartels in Mexico, ostensibly so they could track the guns up the food chain and then ...
13 Sep, 2011
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3 min read
The Chandler classroom conundrum
It’s hard to tell whether Chandler, Arizona’s popular technology-driven classroom program is the wave-of-the-future, an expensive failure or something in between. According to the New York ...
08 Sep, 2011
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2 min read
Gun walking: the history and aftermath of Operation Fast and Furious
Operation Fast and Furious almost seems like something out of the Keystone Cops, a massive bumbling government operation that even one of those involved described as "delusional." But instead of being ...
06 Sep, 2011
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3 min read
Remigration: Arizona's agricultural workforce dilemma
Two factors are converging to create a farming crisis in Arizona: one has its origins in domestic policy – hard-line immigration laws which have been harped on endlessly by the press – while the other ...
31 Aug, 2011
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3 min read
Arizona looks to effectively manage its water supply in the Sun Corridor
Arizona possesses enough water in Pima, Pinal, and Maricopa counties to support 4.3 million people, says a report from the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at ASU. But to do so, all comm ...
29 Aug, 2011
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3 min read
New business creation in California drops off a cliff
For most of the last decade, California was first or second in new business creation. In 2009, it ranked first. In 2010, new business creation imploded. Actually, that's an understatement. California ...
29 Aug, 2011
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3 min read