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Finally, Trump could give Phoenix its police back

Finally, Trump could give Phoenix its police back
23.01.2025 3

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Ruben Gallego is saving Democrats from themselves

Ruben Gallego is saving Democrats from themselves
23.01.2025 3

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Trump returns as a conquering warrior while Gen X cheers

Trump returns as a conquering warrior while Gen X cheers
21.01.2025 1

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Sports betting makes the wrong people in Arizona rich

Sports betting makes the wrong people in Arizona rich
17.01.2025 5

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State Farm is not the bad guy in LA fires. Neither is AZ

State Farm is not the bad guy in LA fires. Neither is AZ
14.01.2025 40

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About time Facebook removed its muzzle on free speech

About time Facebook removed its muzzle on free speech
10.01.2025 3

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How WNBA players are fighting back against low pay

How WNBA players are fighting back against low pay

Next month will mark three years since Russian despot Vladimir Putin took Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner hostage and a week later launched...

08.01.2025 2

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Why Democrats need a leader like ASU's Michael Crow

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05.01.2025 10

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Winning isn't everything. ASU just triumphed in defeat

04.01.2025 10

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CEO's murder is now a punchline. We're doomed

In the early morning of Dec. 4 in midtown Manhattan, a man with a 9 mm handgun and silencer shot Brian Thompson repeatedly in the back. Thompson,...

29.12.2024 20

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Thankfully, Phoenix airport shooting still shocks us

As if the original call wasn’t weird enough:  Things were about to get even weirder. Roughly two hours after all that, some guy shows up at Sky...

27.12.2024 3

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Trump's endorsement for governor shows he wants to win

On Sunday, Karrin Taylor Robson grabbed the brass ring, one of the biggest prizes in modern Republican politics — the Donald Trump endorsement....

24.12.2024 2

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Sinema gives Democrats a compass to save themselves

21.12.2024 3

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My bet: Feds know all about those mysterious drones

As we try to comprehend the frenzy over drones on the East Coast, understand this. These are friendly aircraft.  Because there is no way, NO WAY,...

18.12.2024 5

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CEO's murder is no time to trash health care industry

Are we really going to go there? Because if that’s where we are as a country, then the most important story on the shooting death of...

11.12.2024 4

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Hobbs can fix Arizona's painfully slow election system

The best argument for Arizona to create an election system that is fast and accurate is this: It can be done. Other states are proving every cycle...

09.12.2024 3

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Trump is changing the world, without lifting a finger

06.12.2024 5

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Rep. Stanton criticizes Biden's pardon, the right way

On Sunday, Joe Biden broke his word and granted his son one of the most generous pardons ever issued by an American president. Hunter Biden will...

03.12.2024 2

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End the debate: 'Die Hard' is a Christmas movie

As its name implies, the motion picture “Die Hard” isn’t going to go away any time soon.  You’ve probably seen the film, but to understand...

03.12.2024 2

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Governor better be on notice: Dems are coming for her

27.11.2024 6

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Why the BYU game is so painful for many of us ASU fans

If you were a Mormon kid growing up in Phoenix in the early 1970s, this was the game you dreaded. Brigham Young vs. Arizona State. One of your two...

23.11.2024 3

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Don't expect Gallego to be another bomb-throwing liberal

The Ruben Gallego makeover is complete.  Only a few years ago, he was a bomb-throwing, back-bench liberal who called a conservative lawmaker an...

21.11.2024 2

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Democrats will regret their social media retreat

Denial is a river you can watch in real time. At the moment it flows from social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to social platform BlueSky,...

20.11.2024 5

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Sen. Kelly is right to grill Trump's pick for Defense

That’s some heat Mark Kelly just threw at Donald Trump’s new pick for U.S. Defense secretary. The U.S. senator from Arizona and former astronaut...

15.11.2024 2

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Opinion: Kris Mayes thumps her chest while she retreats

Never will you see retreat wrapped in so much tough talk and chest thumping as Kris Mayes displayed at her Tuesday press scrum. The Arizona...

14.11.2024 3

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Opinion: How older women could change the election

05.11.2024 40

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Opinion: He helped his people. Then he was beheaded

01.11.2024 1

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Opinion: 'Hitler' moves among us as Donald Trump

“Hitler” is not a metaphor. He moves among us as Donald Trump, imploring us to grant him dominion over the U.S. government and its armed forces. ...

24.10.2024 2

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Opinion: Trump went to McDonald's and torched Harris

It had reached the point where no one could break through. The presidential election had turned into a blur of cannon fire with each side shooting...

22.10.2024 100

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Opinion: This is the moment Kari Lake lost the debate

For about the first five minutes of Wednesday’s U.S. Senate debate in Phoenix, you saw what Kari Lake could have been. Well pressed and pinpoint...

11.10.2024 8

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Opinion: VP debate's biggest moment wasn't spoken

The most important moment in Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate was not spoken. You can’t put quote marks around it, because it was said visually,...

03.10.2024 10

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Opinion: Dems' glaring error on Jeff Flake endorsement

02.10.2024 8

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OPINION: Don't let anyone shame you for voting for Trump

This column has been updated to correct a typo. Mesa Mayor John Giles is a man of high character, so I respect his decision to vote against his...

19.09.2024 1

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OPINION: Mamas, don't let your babies drive for cartels

If you’re a parent of teens and young adults, there may be another topic you’ll want to add to those essential conversations you have with your...

19.09.2024 2

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The GOP has now become the exact thing it hates

16.09.2024 1

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$40 million stolen and no one notices? That's obscene

10.09.2024 1

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JD Vance imploded the GOP while he was in Arizona

06.09.2024 6

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What does it mean to be a McCain now?

06.09.2024 2

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RFK Jr.'s Arizona bombshell shows how weird we've become

What a weird time to be an American. The Republicans are coopting the Kennedys and the Democrats are coopting the McCains.  At the Democrats’...

27.08.2024 1

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AZ's McCain family exemplifies the GOP split over Trump

On Thursday night, Republican Meghan McCain celebrated the Democratic National Convention in a way that hinted she may be changing sides.  For...

23.08.2024 1

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Trump arrives in Arizona with a big antisemitism problem

Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative youth movement Turning Point USA, isn’t stupid. He knows he’s got a Candace Owens problem. He has to...

23.08.2024 5

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Think we're divided now? 1968 will end your delusion

As Barack Obama dazzled Democrats at their Chicago convention on Tuesday night, he reminded them to keep their feet firmly on the ground.  We live...

21.08.2024 2

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Even the left-leaning media is ripping Harris over this

With so many eyes on this week’s Democratic National Convention, a lot of Americans didn’t notice on Friday that the 2024 presidential election...

20.08.2024 3

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I was wrong about former Gov. Doug Ducey all along

I was wrong about Doug Ducey. I had always seen him as the ice cream executive who we went from selling vanilla in waffle cones to selling vanilla...

14.08.2024 2

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Queen Creek board member must answer for vulgar posts

James Knox is getting an education in self-publishing. As a member of the board of the Queen Creek Unified School District, Knox has been sharing...

14.08.2024 10

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Phoenix didn't test Kamala Harris, but Chicago will

Friday night at Glendale’s Desert Diamond Arena, Democrats who came to see Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz soon became their...

14.08.2024 2

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Devin Booker is the best ambassador Phoenix could have

He is not the most dazzling star in the firmament. He glows warm. He doesn’t blaze like the supernova, LeBron James. But he is our star and our...

10.08.2024 3

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Arizona hardly knows Mark Kelly. That needs to change

When the veepstakes were still going strong in Kamala-land and Mark Kelly was in serious contention, there came a cable-news feed that showed a...

09.08.2024 9

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Shapiro was a strong choice for VP. Harris blew it

I was prepared to tell Democrats what a brilliant choice they made for vice president. Where Donald Trump had blundered, choosing a lock-step...

07.08.2024 6

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3 more events that could mess up the election (again)

You probably don’t think much about the first game-changing event in the 2024 presidential election — it happened so long ago. May 30. That was...

06.08.2024 3

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