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For the border state of Arizona, the year 2009 will be remembered for a marked decline in Mexicans migrating to the United States, a trend many economists attribute to the loss of...

It's a scenario as old as the proverbial hills. A powerful man cheats on his wife, denies it, truth comes out, man looks bad. Call it The Powerful Man is a Scumbag Syndrome, and boy do we love it. Former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer's high-priced call girls captivated our...

Arizona is in trouble. Facing a $2.2 billion deficit, the state has the second worst fiscal problems in the country (tied with Rhode Island behind California) according to a November Pew Center study.

State-level lawmakers know they have to come up with a solution. But the Republican controlled legislature

Here are a few words you rarely see in the same article: "Arizona." "Federal government." "Agreement."

At the request of the United States federal government, a massive 85-foot-tall blue spruce was felled near Alpine, Ariz. this past Sunday and began a 4000 mile journey to Washington, DC, where it...

As reported in the Huffington Post, Arizona Republican National Committeeman Bruce Ash called a Tucson talk radio show last week, and said if Democrats want to learn about crime in Tucson they should "ask the brown people."

Now U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva, the League of United Latin American Citizens,...

An Arizona Republican National Committeeman called a Tucson conservative talk radio program last week and advised an Arizona Democratic County Chairperson that if he wanted to learn about crime in Tucson he should "ask the brown people."

Bruce Ash called the Jon Justice show to discuss Proposition 200, an...

The health care reform bill sent to the Congressional Budget Office yesterday contained two key elements: a public option, and a way to opt out of that public option. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he considered having a public option with an opt out clause "fair."

That...

With today's launch of a U.S. Senate Exploratory Committee website, Tucson City Council member Rodney Glassman has become the first Arizona Democrat to officially announce an interest in running against Republican Senator John McCain.

In an interview conducted shortly after the committee's website went up, Glassman said he...

A genealogist working with the New York Times has discovered a new page in the family history of First Lady Michelle Obama; her great-great-great grandmother, a teenage slave girl named Melvinia as young as 15 was impregnated by a white slave owner.

Genealogist Megan Smolenyak reconstructed this long-lost piece...

The Economist website is currently running excerpts from a report concerning immigration. The report, written by a member of the Royal Belgian Geographical Society, claims that full assimilation of many immigrants is impossible, because: "we know little about their religion, their customs are different than ours, and there...

I've been thinking about the future a lot lately.

Last week I attended a joyous event, a beautiful and delightful wedding. The day was shining, the bride and groom young and happy, and as I glanced around the crowd it seemed all in attendance wore shimmering smiles full of genuine...

On Thursday afternoon, when President Barack Obama entered a room of 50 volunteers, with thousands watching via webcast, he was greeted with the campaign cry of "Yes We Can."

The President smiled, then removed his jacket and rolled up his sleeves. The symbolism was clear; that catchy phrase helped get...

In the midst of a pro-health care rally outside of President Barack Obama's Phoenix town hall, among the many signs calling for health care reform one sign was just a little bit different than the others. That sign, the one that caught my eye, wasn't fancy or particularly clever. It...

Remember the Harry and Louise ads? Much was made over the advertising campaign which ran during the first few months of the Clinton presidency; some went so far as to give the ads credit for helping kill the Clinton healthcare initiative. The ads showed two relatively ordinary Americans, sitting around...

Another report, another hero bites the dust.

The New York Times is reporting that a 2003 report names two prominent members of the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox as having tested positive for steroids. One, Manny Ramirez, also tested positive for steroids earlier this year and was suspended...

I was very fortunate to be where I was when the Governor of Alaska announced her resignation, because it gave me a great lead in to this story.

On July 3rd, I watched Sarah Palin's rambling, rolling, remedial-grammar-needing resignation speech in beautiful Sedona, Arizona, home of John McCain (yes, I...

The Arizona Daily Star reports that a 27 year old man named Walt Staton from Tucson, Arizona could be sentenced to up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine after being convicted of littering on federal land. His litter: containers of water. The criminal act: leaving water...

During the long presidential campaign, President Barack Obama ran on a platform of change. And in his extremely busy first 100 plus days, change has indeed come, fast and furious, on issues domestic and foreign.

That same clarion call for change is now spreading to the White House walls.

Have you eaten a school lunch anywhere in the United States? Stood in line with little kids in the cafeteria and tried to find something remotely digestible to put on your tray? Did you squirm at the warmed over pizza, the lifeless salad, the ever present sweets and treats?

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David Fitzsimmons must be one of the few moderate liberals in the United States who spends a whole lot of his time listening to right wing radio and Fox News. Although his personal preferences lean more toward what he called, "the warm dulcet tones of NPR, where I actually have...