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Psst. Hiring a town manager? You might...

I wasn’t able to make it to Buckeye’s town hall meeting in Verrado so I watched a videotape of the...

Nov 1st

This Too Shall Pass

I don’t like to make predictions because they are usually, you know…wrong.  But it looks...

Nov 1st

Mitchell has Real Opposition in '08

The Republicans have fielded a formidable candidate in former Maricopa County Treasurer David...

Nov 1st

Looking at Gilbert's boards and...

Gilbert has a slew of boards and commissions that act in an advisory capacity to the Town Council....

Oct 31st

Buddha the Atheist

Interesting documentary: They say Buddhism is the only atheistic world religion. That may be...

Oct 31st

The Mystery of the Missing Posts

I have gotten a bunch of emails about posts that were taken down from Wactivist while we have been...

Oct 31st

Every baby's death is not the same

In the computer database of The Arizona Republic there are news articles that go back 20 years...

Oct 31st

It's all about Hillary

It’s rather amazing how thoroughly, and how early, Hillary Clinton has come to dominate the...

Oct 31st

Korb on Withdrawal From Iraq

Lawrence Korb is one of America’s foremost military logistical thinkers. He authored a top to...

Oct 31st

A Matter of Convictions

ASU Law Professor Michael Saks has been working on a project that intrigues me.  He points out that...

Oct 31st

A victory for your right to know

A Texas judge just ruled that Dallas officials must release e-mails requested almost two years ago...

Oct 31st

A Matter of Convictions

ASU Law Professor Michael Saks has been working on a project that intrigues me.  He points out that...

Oct 31st

Harry Mitchell Needs to Hear From You

Harry Mitchell needs to know that you oppose warrantless wiretapping and amnesty for...

Oct 31st

Bush should lie low

President Bush went out of his way today to criticize the Democratic Congress. In one of those...

Oct 30th

Lessons learned from an underwear ad

Here are just a few things we can safely presume about the people who took the time and the effort...

Oct 30th

Let's Play "Mock the Republicans"

The Republic’s Amanda Crawford is positively giddy.  It seems that Republican Party...

Oct 30th

Let's Play "Mock the Republicans"

The Republic’s Amanda Crawford is positively giddy.  It seems that Republican Party...

Oct 30th

Victoria's Secret ads are nothing...

Our Southeast Valley cities and towns will never become destination spots as long as people continue...

Oct 30th

Mrs. Dahl Got a Surprise and We Got Cake

There was only about an hour left for the day shift. We all worked regular eight-hour shifts back...

Oct 30th

American Freedom Campaign

Link: Sign the American Freedom Pledge It’s about time someone who wants to lead this...

Oct 30th

Wilenchik's New Times Grand Jury: a...

The Grand Jury proceedings having been unsealed on October 24th, it is time to take a look under the...

Oct 29th

CAP Bioethics Conference

This looks interesting. The Center for Arizona Policy is sponsoring a bioethics conference on...

Oct 29th

CAP Bioethics Conference

This looks interesting. The Center for Arizona Policy is sponsoring a bioethics conference on...

Oct 29th

Importing socialism

I’m a pretty stout fair trader. For the most part, I don’t favor limits on the...

Oct 29th

A Great Divide

This ad brilliantly demonstrates the cultural divide between the baby boomers. (via...

Oct 29th

A Great Divide

This ad brilliantly demonstrates the cultural divide between the baby boomers. (via...

Oct 29th

Patriotism or self-promotion?

Can patriotism be measured by the size of one’s flag? The new PGA Tour Superstore in...

Oct 29th

Dogs have their places at SanTan Village

Just Dogs Gourmet and Puppies ‘N Love are two stores that cater to dogs at SanTan Village, the...

Oct 29th

Unfettered Capitalism

Gap vows action after child labor report: Yahoo! News Welcome to Free Trade Utopia. “Clothing...

Oct 29th

Arizona Dems Lead GOP in...

Some good news for a change! Arizona is a hopelessly “red” state, right?  Well the...

Oct 28th

Sunday Plath; A Day After Her Birthday

Lately I’ve been considering posting poetry not written by Plath, but others that I regard...

Oct 28th

BlogForArizona Reader Survey

Please take my Blog Reader Project survey. Periodically, I like to take a moment to get to know...

Oct 27th

Smith Hopkinson - PRELUDE BWV 1006

I love this guy. I heard him play the Bach Chaconne once. I was in the front row, just a meter or...

Oct 27th

Alert (Am I Ever)

Do not get into a small airplane with these people. If you don’t want to buy her book then...

Oct 27th

Weekend Update -- Halloweekend edition!

A little bit of news from around the Grand Canyon State. Add your favorite news links in the...

Oct 27th

I Slept With

I was a good friend of his. Better than ever. Really. But don’t ask him. No good, that. He was...

Oct 27th

What Orcs Are, What America Is

They do not process emotions the way the rest of us, the normal 96%; do, because they have no...

Oct 26th

Pruitt's protest goes Washington

Today I got a press release from “the 36th & Thomas Business Coalition,” a group of...

Oct 26th

Battle of the barbecue

Ever notice how you can’t say something about Tempe Marketplace without someone saying...

Oct 26th

Queen's Gambit Accepted

We have been reading about the employer sanctions legislations and I’ve noticed that the...

Oct 26th

Rangel's pay-go handcuffs

On the corporate side, there’s some merit in the general approach taken in Charlie...

Oct 26th

Thomas and Wilenchik Guilty of Abuse of...

The arrest of the founders of the New Times for revealing the contents of an overly broad Grand Jury...

Oct 26th

Glass Brick

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Oct 26th

On vacation ...

(via MAD blogger - MoAlonzoDunsmoor’s Blog - azcentral.com)

Oct 25th

A grand opening of a day

I’ve been waiting a while now for Whole Foods to open at Ray Road and the Loop 101, only to...

Oct 25th

Goddard on Thomas

Attorney General Terry Goddard using the dust up between Andy Thomas and the New Times as an...

Oct 25th

Milgram Experiment (Derren Brown)

This is something that I have been dwelling on for some time. Milgram’s experiment,...

Oct 25th

Goddard vs. Thomas, Arpaio

Terry Goddard is being opportunistic with his letter demanding that the investigation of his...

Oct 25th

Ripley's Believe it or Not.

Over a month ago, I broke the story that the Tribune was going to be distributed for free.  There...

Oct 25th

I Sure Hope Kris Mayes isn't Reading...

Here’s an interesting article from Forbes.  (This is just federal spending.  Marty’s...

Oct 25th

Trick-or-treaters sans costumes: I...

Halloween is coming. Time to stock up on candy for all of the trick-or-treaters who will show up as,...

Oct 24th

Gordon's tired and empty gesture

Phil Gordon needs a new scriptwriter. His bravura about sending the feds a bill for the cost of...

Oct 24th

Democrats Concede Tucson

I think the conventional wisdom is that the Democrats are ascendant, so I find it truly stunning...

Oct 24th

In a fire, what would you take?

So, if it were your home about to go up in flames and you had only a few minutes to gather...

Oct 24th

Got a problem? Call a press conference.

I can absolutely understand why Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas would be concerned about the...

Oct 24th

Home Sweet Home

You will recall that the Arpaio/Thomas debacle started because the New Times printed Sheriff...

Oct 24th

Another worthy cause could come to...

Tonight, the Gilbert Town Council will consider, and could approve, a request from the Jackie...

Oct 23rd

Fund the futile drug fight

If the United States is not going to legalize at least marijuana, then the Bush...

Oct 23rd

Governor Andrew Thomas... NOT!

American demagogues, such as Senator Joe McCarthy, tend to over-reach in a system designed to...

Oct 22nd

Thomas didn't really...

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas talked tough last week about how poorly his hand-picked...

Oct 22nd

Obama's potential

Barack Obama is different from any other presidential candidate, and it has nothing to do with...

Oct 22nd

Bill Richardson's New TV Ad: "Only One"

Today our campaign released a new ad, entitled “Only One,” which details a hostage...

Oct 22nd

Signs that might be worth posting

On the rare occasions that I drive along Scottsdale Road I am always grateful to the person or...

Oct 22nd

Say it Ain't So, Joe!

Unless you are just returning from hiking Kilimanjaro, you will be well acquainted with the truly...

Oct 21st

Plath for an October Sunday

By Candlelight This is winter, this is night, small love — A sort of black horsehair, A rough,...

Oct 21st

Milgram Experiment (Derren Brown)

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Oct 21st

We Win One

(This is a follow up to my previous diary) I have put up posts about on the ongoing feud between...

Oct 20th

Milgram Experiment (Derren Brown)

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Oct 20th

How The Cat Wakes You Up In The Morning!

Hat tip to plum (via shrimplate)

Oct 20th

The Pork Battle continues

It is a bit of a slap in the face at true fiscal conservatives when some members of Congress claim...

Oct 20th

For His Amusement

President Bush not a normal guy. When he was a kid he blew up frogs. As a young adult he faked his...

Oct 19th

A Modest Proposal to get the GOP to quit...

Link: GOP congressmen quit because of five-day work week. So far, 9 GOP Congressmen have announced...

Oct 19th

Damage control in the Thomas camp

In a not-so-surprising turn of events Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has dropped charges...

Oct 19th

New Times vs. Thomas, Arpaio

From what is known, the grand jury investigation into the New Times by Maricopa County Attorney...

Oct 19th

Problems bigger than a jumbotron

I headed to SanTan Village this morning, taking the Santan Freeway stretch of the Loop 202 eastbound...

Oct 19th

Side Note

I got a few e-mails about some of the “personal attacks” that I’ve made in a few...

Oct 19th

Watching the Watchers

Down south of me, in Maricopa County, the sheriff is out of control (BTW, do not click on the links...

Oct 19th

Killing the messenger, New Times'...

On Thursday afternoon, a few hours before he was hauled off to jail by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s...

Oct 19th

Light Timers

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Oct 19th

Standard fare at State Fair

The night ended with lingering nausea, a stiff neck and sore feet.  What else can you expect after...

Oct 19th

One Story: Many Lessons

Last August, Gregory Clark argued that Europeans evolved “middle class values” and that...

Oct 18th

Freeway names vs. numbers

Several years ago, a (transplant) friend of mine told me that we (here in the Southeast...

Oct 18th

Thomas goes after New Times...and you?

If you’re wondering to what lengths a politician will go to attack a media outlet that has...

Oct 18th

More on police chiefs and illegal...

As the debate over whether police should get involved in enforcing immigration laws progresses,...

Oct 18th

Sheriff Joe: Eye of the storm, or...

Ardent supporters of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio would not say that he is in the eye of the...

Oct 18th

I Guess I get to retire after all.

Dear Friend, I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your Bank Draft of...

Oct 18th

Spot the Bias

How’s this for a biased paragraph.  Argaio’s law enforcement effort is an...

Oct 18th

The Early Money Race

“I have a great idea! Let’s not have any more elections. That way, we don’t have...

Oct 18th

Buckeye: Residents sound off

Kudos to Buckeye residents for standing up, speaking out and demanding accountability from their...

Oct 18th

Shop at BlogForArizona

Now you can buy absolutely essential consumer goods at the BlogForArizona.com Shop. You can...

Oct 18th

It looks like the flying Imams have...

(via Arizona’s Own Espresso Pundit)

Oct 18th

Practice makes ...better

Some local criticism has arisen over the TOPOFF anti-terrorism exercise that local agencies have...

Oct 17th

Super Bowls abroad: Not a bad idea.

At first, I thought NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was suffering from foot-in-mouth disease when he...

Oct 17th

Sheriff on "Nightline" tonight

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is scheduled to appear on ABC’s “Nightline”...

Oct 17th

The problem with Phoenix PD's...

The problem of the policy of the Phoenix police department to be willing to consider legal status...

Oct 17th

Schwiekert Resigns to Run

Maricopa County Treasurer David Schweikert has announced that he is resigning in order to run for...

Oct 17th

Holiday shopping: Hot or not?

Hot Topic, Linens ‘n Things and other Westcor retailers are expecting a holiday sales increase...

Oct 17th

National Presidential Caucus

Link: National Presidential Caucus. This is a great idea. Let’s have a say (even if a...

Oct 17th

No Brainer Indeed

Here’s what passes for logic among the spending lobby and their MSM enablers.  Society has...

Oct 17th

Why Does Giffords Hate the Estate Tax?

WTF? Why was Gabby Giffords alone in the Arizona Democratic delegation in voting with President Bush...

Oct 17th

BeeTraying Arizona's Constitution

Does anyone honestly believe that Tim Bee needs $134K and growing to explore the idea of a running...

Oct 17th

Will Gateway airport's new logo get...

I should have seen this one coming. The former Williams Gateway Airport has a new logo to go with...

Oct 16th

Peoria: Show me the money!

The Peoria Posse isn’t backing down from its recall attempt of Vice Mayor Vicki Hunt. ...

Oct 16th

The housing flu

Yesterday, I moderated an economic forum sponsored by Maricopa County, featuring Elliott Pollack, a...

Oct 16th

Free Health Care: Michael Moore Would...

LONDON (AFP) - Falling numbers of state dentists in England has led to some people taking extreme...

Oct 16th

Let's Play "Mock the Conservative."

Make no mistake, a “caption contest” is an invitation to mock the person in a...

Oct 16th

Hiatus

Sorry about the brief hiatus. I don’t do this professionally nor full-time, but that would be nice...

Oct 16th

Beetastic Numbers

Arizona Senate President Tim Bee has released his fundraising numbers for his exploratory committee,...

Oct 16th

What Bonkers Said

Over at Crooks and Liars there are links to video of the Olbermann interview with the Frost parents....

Oct 16th

Time for a Presidential Preference Check

How are you all feeling about the Democratic candidates, kiddies? Opinion Polls & Market...

Oct 16th

Let it go, Joe

I chuckled when I read the story about Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio doing a final crime sweep...

Oct 16th

It's All Spin.

The State Department of Education just released a report on the status of Arizona schools.  Check...

Oct 15th

Major Changes at the Tribune.

I mentioned earlier that the Trib was eventually going to be free.  Here’s an interesting...

Oct 15th

llegal alien shoots cop --- yawn

There was a time when news that a Hispanic man who was in the country illegally had shot a police...

Oct 15th

Is the bailout beginning?

Today’s Wall Street Journal contains the distressing news that Treasury has organized a rescue...

Oct 15th

Green grass for winter or summer?

Aaaaahhh, cooler temperatures have arrived. It is time to take our indoor gatherings outdoors and...

Oct 15th

I'm in Tucson, so Light Posting

I’m giving a speech  at La Paloma in Tucson this morning, so posting will be light until this...

Oct 15th

Mini Update

 Hill-Dog = UP Clinton has a 21 point lead in New Hampshire. Yet again validating my opinion that...

Oct 14th

Sunday Time for Plath

I Am Vertical But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil Sucking up...

Oct 14th

Voter Fraud Alert: The Latest Rat...

Maricopa County Recorder Elections Office has learned that an insidious fraud is being perpetrated...

Oct 14th

Flush Tucson's 'Toilet to Tap'...

There are a lot of people lining up to tell you to vote NO on Prop 200. Just about the entire...

Oct 14th

Maricopa Sheriff Arpaio's 500K Paranoiac...

Ran across a great local perspective on Joe Arpaio’s six month long $500,000 investigation of...

Oct 14th

Coffee Time

We’d finished morning bedside report and I was out and about to see my patients before 0730. ...

Oct 13th

The Return of Friday Dog Blogging:...

The love of a good dog knows no politics. Just consider the saga of little Charlie Schweikert....

Oct 12th

El Mirage: No. 2 cop also hails from...

The word is out: Bill Louis, an assistant police chief in Phoenix who oversees the Homeland Security...

Oct 12th

Why Turkey matters

Turkey has recalled its ambassador to the U.S. in protest of the passage of a resolution passed this...

Oct 12th

Weekly Butcher's Bill

 1. Hill-Dog   UP -  Hill-Dog is topping the national polls and the state polls as well. She is...

Oct 12th

Finally, some passion from D'back...

Forget the hand-wringers and holier-than-thou purists. I’m with Eric Byrnes on this. He said...

Oct 12th

This bad idea belongs in the dumpster

For the life of me, I can’t understand why Litchfield Park politicians might go after a...

Oct 12th

A new way of shopping comes to Gilbert

I met with Westcor officials two years ago to talk about SanTan Village, a new kind of regional mall...

Oct 12th

What Terrorists Want

It is a pedestrian observation that terrorists are human beings and therefore have a human...

Oct 12th

Write for Wactivist!

This blog used to be awesome.  This blog is now not awesome. When I jumped to a group format, I...

Oct 12th

I Love the Smell of Light Rail in the...

(via Arizona’s Own Espresso Pundit)

Oct 12th

For performance, fund students, not...

According to today’s paper, the state is considering “performance funding” for...

Oct 11th

What scares you?

Oct. 16 is Face your Fears Day. If you fear deadlines, don’t worry. You still have five days...

Oct 11th

A guide to planning anything during...

A couple of years ago a friend of mine got engaged and immediately began to plan the fall nuptials...

Oct 11th

Immigration: pictures of the presser

Police chiefs and many of their officers display a united front earlier this week as law...

Oct 11th

Bonus bribes for Army officers

Of all the money being spent on the war in Iraq, this may be the best and most honorable...

Oct 11th

Where's 'Sheriff'...

On Monday, at just about the time that Valley police chiefs were holding a press conference to say...

Oct 11th

GOP planning to campaign again on...

Link: GOP pressing immigrant issue. I didn’t realize that Republican strategists were...

Oct 11th

Corner Fireplace

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Oct 11th

Fear and loathing at Phoenix Sky Harbor

I recall a day long ago, before we slipped into our bizarre post-9/11 mindset, when you could arrive...

Oct 11th

El Mirage: Down to the wire

Only three days remaining … and El Mirage Police Chief Michael Frazier seems to have...

Oct 11th

Mesa's Mark Fuhrman?

Is the on-duty Mesa police sergeant who flipped the bird at group of pro-immigrant protesters in...

Oct 10th

Mamon Comes A-Callin'

Seems like every medium eventually falls prey to the siren song of profit. And profitability...

Oct 10th

Celebrating heritage is an everyday...

Members of Gilbert’s Human Relations Commission are scratching their heads over poor...

Oct 10th

Froman and Click

Link: ThinkRight Arizona: Sandy Froman to Co-Chair Bee Exploratory Committee. So, Tim Bee has...

Oct 10th

Romney, the best and worst of the debate

Mitt Romney had the best and the worst moment of last night’s Republican presidential debate. ...

Oct 10th

Why is this letter from the Goldwater...

Why am I getting a mailer that I completely agree with from the Goldwater Institute? It’s not...

Oct 10th

Three Strikes You're Still In

From the venerable Pravda on the Hudson: ”Among military members and their immediate families...

Oct 10th

A Sad History Indeed

Arizona’s Civil Rights icon Rev. George Brooks died last month.  We were Freshman together in...

Oct 10th

Lies my school district told me

Actually, not my school district. But if you live in the Scottsdale school district, it’s...

Oct 9th

Choosing between worthy causes

Tonight, the Gilbert Town Council will consider, and could approve, waiving the rental fees of Cosmo...

Oct 9th

Who's right on immigration, police...

The chief of police in Phoenix said that his officers responded to over 780,000 calls last year, and...

Oct 9th

Lori Oien On How Not To Do Contrast...

Lori Oien has just taken her campaign from hopelessly out-matched to pitifully incompetent. Her...

Oct 9th

Lori Oien On How Not To Do Contrast...

Lori Oien has just taken her campaign from hopelessly out-matched to pitifully incompetent. Her...

Oct 9th

Immigration: A blue wall

The wall of blue uniforms stretched across the stage. It’s how police chiefs and law...

Oct 9th

No overreaction in Arpaio plot

I believe showboating in law enforcement undermines the rule of law, so Joe Arpaio is hardly my cup...

Oct 8th

Love them while they're still alive

I often hear people say things that, in my mind, should go without saying, as if to remove any doubt...

Oct 8th

Shame can't fill a ballpark

Now that the Diamondbacks have made it to the National League Championship Series, elements of the...

Oct 8th

Andrew Thomas Greenlights Judge Ryan to...

In the parlance of thugs, to greenlight an enemy is to put out the word that the mark is fair game,...

Oct 8th

Andrew Thomas Greenlights Judge Ryan to...

In the parlance thugs, to greenlight an enemy is to put out the word that the mark is fair game,...

Oct 8th

Mitchell Continues to Call for Capital...

Link: Scottsdale chamber, Mitchell talks tax cuts. ” Mitchell argues that capital gains cuts...

Oct 7th

Robb From the Middle Class

Robert Robb screwed up his job and actually let a sliver of truth sneak into one of his...

Oct 7th

Payback Time: Repealing the Laws of...

Politicians hate the Payday loan industry.  That’s because most politicians have never bounced...

Oct 7th

Sunday Poetry For Our Time of Hysterical...

Hysteria by T.S.Elliot: As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being...

Oct 7th

Resurrection

My single attempt to try and save this blog is to start a weekly or twice a week update on the...

Oct 7th

Napolitano In Newsweek

It doesn’t get any better than this.  There are more female governors in office than ever...

Oct 7th

All the News that's fit to print.

The media likes to think of itself as an essential part of American governance…the so called...

Oct 7th

Andrew Thomas Propositions Arizona

The current Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is a savvy politician. He knows what red...

Oct 6th

Dead Lesbians Tell No Tales

Both the Boston Herald and the Patriot Ledger have carried stories about the awful and most-likely...

Oct 6th

Politicians in Uniform

There has been a great deal of sturm und drang from the Right about MoveOn’s ad calling...

Oct 6th

Whoop-dee-damn-doo

I almost had to pull off the road and stop to vomit after I listened to a radio talk host share a...

Oct 6th

Buckeye: Behind the scene?

Something brewing in Buckeye … and it doesn’t look good. Two managers gone. One...

Oct 5th

Buckeye's black-eye

I guess the operative question on the minds of most folks in Buckeye is when will the next shoe...

Oct 5th

Questions and excuses in airport death

The tragic death of New York resident Carol Gotbaum at Sky Harbor airport put the national spotlight...

Oct 5th

The DLC Strikes Again

Rahm and Steny are trying to sneak through a new FISA bill today and they won’t let the ACLU...

Oct 5th

Let's step back from the Grandiose...

Grandiose rhetoric. It can be powerful stuff. Like: Peoria Vice-mayor Vicki Hunt should be recalled...

Oct 5th

Throw Pillows

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Oct 5th

I'm Back

Well, I’ve been gone for 48 hours.  Take a look at the screen shot on the right and you will...

Oct 5th

Sic'em

We’ve all seen “[sic]” used in quotes.  It’s supposed to mean that the...

Oct 5th

Buckeye: A revolving door of...

“And another one down, and another one down, another one bites the dust …” ...

Oct 4th

The strange world of independent...

The Log Cabin Republicans, a gay advocacy group, is running ads against  Mitt Romney. That’s...

Oct 4th

Memevolution

The evolution of memes. As Dennet suggests. But the meme must first be birthed before it can evolve...

Oct 4th

Chicago's filthy victory over...

(Column for publication 10/04/07) When professional sports teams meet in the playoffs it is not...

Oct 4th

It's no mirage, folks

Day Two for new El Mirage Police Chief Michael Frazier and the word is that things are going...

Oct 4th

A little more on Frazier

El Mirage Police Chief Michael Frazier — though steeped in logistics about the pending...

Oct 4th

Bush finally finds his veto pen

Bush is probably on the losing end of the political argument over his veto today of the expansion of...

Oct 3rd

Only a Nuclear Abolitionist Will Get My...

Those who know me know that I have tried to stay fairly neutral (note how that word shares a root...

Oct 3rd

Buckeye: a large nutlike seed

(via MAD blogger - MoAlonzoDunsmoor’s Blog - azcentral.com)

Oct 3rd

You'll Shoot Your Eye Out

You can open up a copy of your local newspaper or peruse the comments that the freepers and other...

Oct 3rd

How to become a naturalized Arizonan

(Column published 10/;02/07) Federal immigration authorities have released an updated version of a...

Oct 2nd

Corporation Commission gets into the tax...

The Arizona Corporation Commission is supposed to prevent utilities from using their monopoly status...

Oct 2nd

A new chief in town

Michael Frazier starts his new job in El Mirage as the community’s top cop on Tuesday. ...

Oct 2nd

Introducing The Burma NewsLadder

The situation in Burma is tragic and the result of decades of horrific military rule that has...

Oct 1st

McCain and a Muslim president

In his interview with Beliefnet.com, John McCain stumbled in the thicket that has become the...

Oct 1st

'Sultan of Sleaze' was our...

David Hans Schmidt didn’t invent himself. He imagined himself. He dreamed of transforming...

Oct 1st

Twenty Quebecois

From Kate Steadman’s Health Policy blog: “A 2002 Health Affairs paper examined hospitals...

Oct 1st