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Hobbs should out-Trump with executive orders

My dear departed colleague Clay Thompson used to deal each day with questions and comments from readers, often pointing out their foibles, their...

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Ej Montini

America's colleges must reckon with twisted history taught about Israel

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Phil Boas

I can't stop thinking about Arizona's Medal of Honor recipients

I find myself thinking this Memorial Day weekend about Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jose Jimenez. He was a Mexican national who came to the U.S., to...

sunday 9

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Ej Montini

Others tried to silence Voice of America and failed - until now

Kari Lake has scored a "huge victory” in her efforts to silence the sound of freedom. Oh, I’m sure the Voice of America will go on under Lake’s...

23.05.2025 1

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Laurie Roberts

Want to save Arizona forests? Then let them burn

You could feel the tension rise as wildfire erupted near Greer in eastern Arizona’s high country. The Greer Fire was burning where the Wallow Fire...

23.05.2025 3

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Joanna Allhands

Phoenix council must do its job and police the police

The Department of Justice report issued last year on the Phoenix Police Department was brutal. It didn’t focus solely on isolated incidents, but...

22.05.2025 3

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Ej Montini

Don't let the feds silence your vote on in-state tuition

In 2022, Arizona voters made history by passing Proposition 308, granting in-state tuition to undocumented students — Dreamers — who have lived in...

22.05.2025 2

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Op Ed

Phoenix was smart to fight federal police oversight

Many old-school conservatives who never drank the MAGA Kool-Aid but still root for Donald Trump’s success because the Democratic alternative is so...

22.05.2025 1

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Phil Boas

Why does ICE wear masks for Phoenix immigration arrests?

A reader asked me a question about the masked federal agents who have been assigned to arrest the men and women appearing for civil immigration...

22.05.2025 1

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Ej Montini

Trump arrests rule followers. That makes us great again?

Remember when candidate Donald Trump vowed to deport violent criminals who broke into the country to rape and murder and generally pillage the land?...

22.05.2025 10

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Laurie Roberts

School voucher zealots caught in a lie, again

Arizona’s school voucher program was a bait and switch con job from the start. A lie. It was proposed and adopted initially with the noble purpose...

21.05.2025 2

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Ej Montini

Mesa has math, reading and … TikTok influencer classes?

Two Mesa high schools will be offering a new class this fall, one designed to prepare their students for a lucrative career in the hottest field...

21.05.2025 2

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Laurie Roberts

Heap may have dug his own hole. But I still feel for him

Justin Heap beat me in the 2024 Republican primary, and he replaced me as Maricopa County recorder. I’m now writing in his defense. Kind of. In just...

21.05.2025 2

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Op Ed

Gov. Hobbs is becoming a new kind of Democrat

As Donald Trump dithers over which Republican is MAGA enough to get his 2026 endorsement for governor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs is plying a centrist...

21.05.2025 2

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Phil Boas

See iconic aircraft at Palm Springs Air Museum

21.05.2025 1

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Story From Summerscapes 2025

Who will hold the Maricopa County sheriff accountable?

The notion that we must end court supervision of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office just because it costs too much isn’t just absurd. It’s...

21.05.2025 8

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Elvia Díaz