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Arizona bucks national food inflation trend in third quarter
Retail food prices at Arizona supermarkets were down in the third quarter according to the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation's Market Basket Survey. The informal survey averages the cost of 16 basic ...
12 Oct, 2011
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Arizona budget deficit still problematic
"When you're up to your knees in alligators, sometimes it's difficult to remember your initial objective was to drain the swamp." That is what has happened over the past few years as Arizona lawmakers ...
10 Oct, 2011
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USDA announces beginning farmer awards
The average age of farmers and ranchers in America is increasing, and rural populations are in decline. This is why the U.S. Department of Agriculture is acting to plant a new crop of much needed agri ...
06 Oct, 2011
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Heart of darkness: the prison murder of Shannon Palmer
This is one of those unfathomable stories where you wonder if we're all living on the same planet or if anything can be gleaned from it to ensure that it never happens again. Shannon Palmer, a me ...
03 Oct, 2011
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Phoenix metro area among hardest hit by Great Recession, survey finds
From 2008 to 2010, the Great Recession has disproportionately impacted the Phoenix area causing one of the most dramatic declines in employment rates among the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas. ...
29 Sep, 2011
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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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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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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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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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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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