Last week dueling guest columns in the USA TODAY prompted several days of impassioned letters from readers taking sides on the issue. It wasn’t about gay marriage or bullying or Greek austerity or anything else prominent in the news the past few days. It was about whether it’s time to stop funding high school athletics. [...]
Today’s twenty somethings, especially those graduating from college this month, who want to lead their nation someday better spend some time figuring out what they’re for and against. From taxes to spending to Medicare to national defense to global warming to gay marriage to abortion to school funding to drug prohibition to illegal immigration and [...]
Well, now that the Legislature and governor have agreed on a state budget we finally know where most of the sales-tax windfall from the improving economy is going to land – the state’s savings account. That’s not what the 750,000 people who voted in May 2010 to increase their sales taxes were told was going [...]
Proponents of Arizona’s tough immigration law, dubbed SB1070 from the number it was assigned in the state senate, believe that the expected June ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the law will be the last word on its legality. It won’t be. Chief Justice John Roberts signaled as much at the [...]
Prepositions matter. While those little two, three and four-letter words might seem like English’s lesser children, they play a very important role in communication and understanding. Take for instance the following phrases – freedom of religion and freedom from religion. Three words each with only the middle words, both prepositions, different. Yet each phrase means [...]
Well, there’s no going back now. Tucson’s exalted leaders and other assorted muckety mucks on Thursday officially celebrated the start of construction of the modern streetcar, now called Sun Link. The four-mile streetcar line stretches west from University Medical Center, through the university and Main Gate Square, turning south on Fourth Avenue to Congress, then [...]
Have you paid your taxes yet? According to the IRS, most Americans have; only about 20 percent of tax filers wait until the last week they’re due to turn them in. This year, those procrastinators get a couple of extra days. The IRS has extended the filing deadline to April 17 thanks to April 15 [...]
The House Ethics Committee has released the report of its independent investigators. Download it here: Patterson Legislative Report Exhibits referred to in the report will be distributed later today, according to a message from Rey Torres, the House communications director.
It’s well known how much Republicans and Democrats detest each other in the Arizona Legislature. Watching floor debates in either legislative chamber is like watching a room full of Pee Wee Hermans sneering at each other chanting, “I know you are but what am I.” So when 78 of the state’s 90 legislators, Republicans and [...]
