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How could they leave my area off richest ZIP codes list?

How could they leave my area off richest ZIP codes list?
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Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Gun violence can't stop Gabby Giffords. It emboldens her

Gun violence can't stop Gabby Giffords. It emboldens her

Former Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords has released a statement commemorating the 14th anniversary of the worst day of her life, and the lives of...

08.01.2025 30

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

O Canada! Trump really wants you to be the 51st state

O Canada! Trump really wants you to be the 51st state

Donald Trump really wants Canada to be our 51st state. Or, as he put it on social media, “Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State. The...

07.01.2025 1

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Let a jury decide the fate of Arizona election meddler

Let a jury decide the fate of Arizona election meddler

This may be the last opportunity Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has to prove that, in our state, an oath of office means something. The...

07.01.2025 10

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Kamala Harris proves how a gracious loser can win

Kamala Harris proves how a gracious loser can win

After losing the presidential election to Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris made a concession speech that demonstrated just how much...

07.01.2025 3

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Trump stole his deportation plan from Arizona

Trump stole his deportation plan from Arizona

The late Russell Pearce, former Arizona Senate president, was so far behind the times that he was ahead of them. Without giving him any credit — or...

03.01.2025 3

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

For one Arizona family, the Vietnam War is finally over

At 3 a.m. on Nov. 7, 1972, the day President Richard Nixon would be reelected, Steve Morrissey was awakened by noises at the front door. Steve’s...

26.12.2024 2

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Horne makes it even easier to loot school voucher cash

Once the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature decided that school voucher money — taxpayer money — would not just be provided for those...

13.12.2024 40

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Mayes sues to stop Saudi cows from eating our water

I first heard about how a Saudi-owned farm company growing alfalfa to feed cows in the Middle East was draining aquifers in La Paz County back in...

13.12.2024 30

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

How many Arizonans will killing Obamacare kill?

Donald Trump still doesn’t understand why U.S. Sen. John McCain saved the Affordable Care Act in 2017, even though the senator (battling brain...

11.12.2024 3

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Mexico can shut the door on 'Ambassador' Kari Lake

The news website Semafor reported on Monday that losing Republican governor candidate and losing Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake is a...

10.12.2024 2

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Trump's birthright citizenship plan has 'malice for all'

Over the years, Donald Trump has often compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, even calling himself “better than Lincoln.” As we move closer...

10.12.2024 3

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Elon and Vivek are coming for your Social Security

Here’s the thing about billionaires like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. They don’t need Social Security. Not one penny. They don’t need Medicaid...

08.12.2024 100

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Leaving after Trump's win? Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Have they left yet? You know who I’m talking about. In the days after last month’s election, news reports said Google searches involving leaving...

07.12.2024 2

USA TODAY

Ej Montini

'Tough' GOP lawmakers go after Arizona's weakest

After expanding their control over the Arizona Legislature, Republican lawmakers are feeling emboldened. They’re feeling tough, superior,...

06.12.2024 40

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Gov. Hobbs shouldn't hide Arizona's execution plans

Politicians don’t like it when people assume, with no proof, that they’re concealing important information from the public. I don’t blame...

05.12.2024 3

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Biden's mistake wasn't pardoning Hunter. It was not pardoning Trump.

I wrote in April 2023 that if Donald Trump was charged with any federal crimes, President Joe Biden should pardon him. It did not go over well. I...

05.12.2024 9

USA TODAY

Ej Montini

Joe Biden's big mistake was not pardoning Trump

I wrote in April 2023 that if Donald Trump was charged with any federal crimes, President Joe Biden should pardon him. It did not go over well. I...

04.12.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Why GOP should green light Gov. Hobbs' agency picks

We all know that the Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature are not actual Republicans but MAGA Donald Trump loyalists. They are a mirror...

03.12.2024 2

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

To celebs fleeing US, here's a sympathetic good riddance

Have they left yet? You know who I’m talking about. In the days after last month’s election, news reports said Google searches involving leaving...

03.12.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Ignorance brings segregated bathrooms back at Capitol

A lot of the people who supported president-elect Donald Trump spoke about returning to a less “woke” bygone era. And ... it’s happened. For...

22.11.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

MAGA nut threatens to expose Congress to protect a pal

You know that old saying about how even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut? Meet Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor “Blind Squirrel” Greene....

20.11.2024 1

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Phoenix police could run wild under Donald Trump

I took an anthropology class in college where we learned about an Indigenous group of people who lived deep in the Amazon rainforest. One of the...

20.11.2024 1

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Relax. God says perviness is OK under Trump

Not long ago, the founder of Phoenix-based Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, whom The Los Angeles Times called “one of the Republican Party's most...

20.11.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Gov. Hobbs really shouldn't try to mimic Sen. Sinema

Back in 2016, in a column about then-U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, I wrote, “She’s a Democrat who didn’t trash Donald Trump and who didn’t...

19.11.2024 1

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Did lawsuit deal with Lake make Richer richer-er?

When losing governor candidate and losing U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake decided to accept a default judgment in the defamation lawsuit filed...

18.11.2024 2

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Judge's integrity may give fake electors a free pass

Arizona’s indicted fake electors aren’t scheduled to go to trial until January of 2026. Now, it may be later, which raises the possibility that...

15.11.2024 2

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Opinion: Fake elector vows 'millions' to get me fired

Two years ago, our now president-elect Donald Trump announced what he called his “free speech policy initiative,” the first lines of which read:...

15.11.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Opinion: Abortion rights are protected, for now

07.11.2024 4

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Opinion: Trump or Harris? A no-fail way to decide

I received a note from a gentleman who knows exactly whom you and I should be voting for in the presidential election, and why. And I plan to share...

04.11.2024 1

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

Opinion: Why Preston Lord's murder isn't national news

10.10.2024 6

Arizona Republic

Ej Montini

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