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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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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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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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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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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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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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California's 33% renewable energy goal by 2020 is not realistic  
A law in April upped California's renewable energy goals by 2020 to 33% from 20%, a far more ambitious goal than any other state is attempting. But, while a renewable energy economy is a laudable goal ...
25 Aug, 2011
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Arizona counties to receive federal disaster relief
Five Arizona counties have been designated by federal agriculture officials as primary natural disaster areas due to damage caused by ongoing drought and related disasters that began in January. Conti ...
24 Aug, 2011
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Rep. Maxine Waters: "The Tea Party can go straight to hell."
After weeks of heated rhetoric and accusations directed toward the Tea Party movement in the days leading up to the debt ceiling agreement and afterward, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) stirred up the war o ...
23 Aug, 2011
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