Subject: Domestic Policy

• The liberals' problem with Freedom of Speech: Why Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Michael Savage are correct on the Fairness Doctrine.

  July 11, 2007

• DEAD IN THE WATER: Ex-ACU Prez Bob Haran cuts ties with Anna Gaines' org, calls recall of Phil Gordon "waste of time."

  May 2, 2008

• Nativists' recall effort against Phil Gordon fails, not one signature submitted. (W/Update.)

  August 28, 2008

• When Revolution Meets Reality

  Governor Symington says his massive tax cuts have brought prosperity to Arizona. Actually, they are bringing on a fiscal train wreck that could damage the state for decades.

  December 28, 1995

• Welfare That Doesn't Work

  Governor Symington has spoken of helping needy kids and improving the welfare system. His welfare agency, the Department of Economic Security, is famous for astonishing incompetence and children who die.

  December 28, 1995

• Trickle-Down Theory

  Industries get a big say in rewrite of water-pollution laws; public may pick up tab

  July 4, 1996

• Babbitt's Interior

  As the White House flips and flops, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt takes his environmental losses and victories in stride. Is his stoicism a necessary virtue or a political vice?

  August 22, 1996

• Closed Door Policy

  A Chilean national's struggle against deportation raises fundamental questions about the constitutional rights of immigrants

  January 9, 1997

• Taken to the Cleaners

  A family-owned company could go out of business because state Senator Russell Bowers has introduced legislation that would free a larger company from paying its share to clean up toxic groundwater

  March 20, 1997

• Fife's Myth

  Symington's tax cuts had little or nothing to do with Arizona's economic boom, which isn't as robust as it's made out to be

  October 9, 1997

• Letters

  October 23, 1997

• Reform Fitting but Unlikely

  April 23, 1998

• Flashes

  July 2, 1998

• Pistol Whipped

  July 23, 1998

• Tax Rebels With a Cause

  October 8, 1998

• Budget Bonanza or Bust?

  Discord between GOP lawmakers and the governor is just one reason the budget battle might get ugly.

  January 7, 1999

• Letters

  April 15, 1999

• Shafted Again

  Mining industry strikes another rich vein in the Legislature

  April 22, 1999

• Letters

  May 6, 1999

• Flashes 08-19-1999

  It's the Media Violence, Stupid

  August 19, 1999

• Letters

  From the week of January 11, 2001

  January 11, 2001

• FIRE Catches ICE with Pants Down, Delivers "Notice of Deportation" to Stunned Agents

  FIRE's video of its December 4 "ICE raid."Check the graphic at the end. FIRE melts ICE, get it? Well, here's a man bites dog story, if there ever was one. Seems that on December 4, several orange jumpsuit-clad members of FIRE, which stands for "Flagstaff Immigrant Rights Enforcement," delivered a "notice of deportation" to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement management meeting taking place at the Flagstaff Radisson Hotel. Judging by the stony silence of the ICE honchos present, the FIRE

  December 11, 2008

• Jan Brewer: Herbert Hoover in High Heels and a Pantsuit

  Separated at birth? According to economist Paul Krugman, it's possible. Will soon-to-be Arizona Governor Jan Brewer repeat the mistakes of Republicans in the midst of the Great Depression, specifically those of President Herbert Hoover?It seems likely. With a GOP-led legislature intent on "starving the beast," as they call state government, Brewer & Co. are likely to swing an ax at any government programs or employees not tied to the floor. See, much of the state budget is held in place

  December 30, 2008

• House Judiciary's Witness List for Thursday's 287(g) Hearing

  I just received the witness list for Thursday's 287(g) hearing from New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler's office. At this point, it's highly unlikely that the Republicans will try to call Sheriff Joe Arpaio because the Dems are running the show, and Arpaio would be walking into a hostile environment.As previously reported. Mesa Police Chief George Gascon is on the list, as is Julio Mora, who was harassed by MCSO deputies during the HMI raid in February. He was dropping off his father for work as

  April 1, 2009

• The Mexican on César Chávez and gabacho grammar rules

  July 3, 2008

• Flushing Them Out

  Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas are teaching the rest of the nation how to terrorize illegal immigrants

  December 27, 2007

• Meltdown

  The Phoenix branch of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau is Exhibit A of this country's failed border policies

  November 16, 2006

• White House Staffer Disappoints Phoenix Latino Leaders in Meeting at El Portal

  Will the White House ever act to protect the civil rights of Arizona Latinos? Don't hold your breath waiting for the Obama administration to do anything in the near future about immigration reform, or yanking Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 287(g) authority. That's the message some local Latino leaders took away from a series of meetings held recently at Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox's El Portal restaurant with a White House staffer by the name of Carlos Odio.Odio was in Phoenix la

  June 5, 2009

• Elephant Slayer

  Napolitano deftly played politics this legislative session to fend off all GOP foes

  May 26, 2005

• Ant Farm

  The death of tiny Autumn White should make lawmakers think more carefully about state budget cuts

  May 29, 2003

• Gun Nut

  The Spike shoots it up with Second Amendment types.

  October 3, 2002

• Net Loss

  The government killed TV, and Hollywood's begging it to revive the corpse

  February 14, 2002

• Learning Disorder

  The Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections fails the state's worst kids

  December 13, 2001

• Fiscal Fissure

  Deep cuts proposed to state budget set up bleak future for Arizonans

  November 29, 2001

• Unpackin' Mama's Pistol

  Gun lockers are coming to a public building near you

  June 7, 2001

• Second Thoughts

  Alan Korwin is a smart guy. So why does he love guns more than people?

  December 21, 2000

• Chaff Storm

  Are these guys into S&M?

  August 19, 1999

• Flashes

  June 3, 1999

• Disarm the Clueless

  Our April 1 story was made up -- these responses weren't

  April 8, 1999

• Give Piece a Chance

  Arm the Homeless stages a firearms giveaway for Phoenix vagrants.

  April 1, 1999

• The Price of Welfare Reform

  December 26, 1996

• Going Underground

  Industry makes secret push to gut laws protecting subsurface water supplies

  January 11, 1996

• Quit Polluting Our Aquifers. Please. Pretty Please.

  Republican revolutionaries want environmental regulators who cooperate with business. Those who enforce Arizona's groundwater laws have to cooperate; there are too few of them to do much else.

  December 28, 1995

• SMALL RADIO, BIG STAKES

  A BROADCASTER KEEPS AIRING LIBERAL VIEWS TO A TINY PART OF NORTH PHOENIX. THE GOVERNMENT SAYS HE'S BREAKING THE LAW.

  March 16, 1995

• THE POLLUTION ALL-STARS

  IF YOU'D LIKE TO GIVE INDUSTRY FREE REIN OVER ARIZONA'S NATURAL RESOURCES, YOU'LL LOVE THESE POLITICIANS

  March 2, 1995

• THE NEW 'SCOPES TRIAL

  FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

  September 29, 1994

• Arizona Governor Wants New, "Sustainable" Model for Universities; Will Use Federal Money to Ease Tuition

  Arizona needs a more affordable business model for its universities in the face of state budget realities, Governor Jan Brewer said this morning to the Arizona Board of Regents. In the short term, hundreds of millions of federal stimulus dollars will be used over the next couple of years to keep tuition reasonably low, Brewer told the Regents, who oversee the state's three universities. But "another huge financial shortfall" awaits once those dollars are spent unles

  April 30, 2009

• Rob Haney, Maricopa County GOP Chair, and His Anti-Mexican Rant to the Catholic Church

  Maricopa County GOP Chair Rob Haney I've really got to wonder about these so-called "Christians" who spend all of their time hating on Mexican immigrants, legal and otherwise. I mean, did they ever go to Sunday school? Hear the parable of the good Samaritan? Read the Sermon on the Mount? Or any of the New Testament, for that matter? You know, all that jazz about, "Love thy neighbor," and so forth? Hey, I'm no Biblical scholar, but I don't recall Jesus preaching anything about deporting peo

  May 10, 2009

• Barack Obama Makes Joe Arpaio's Pal Janet Napolitano Point Woman for Immigration Reform, 287(g) Ignored

  President Obama's remarks after the White House immigration summit today While it was gratifying to see President Barack Obama's much-delayed summit on immigration take place today, and for the President to declare after the meeting that, "My administration is fully behind an effort to achieve comprehensive immigration reform," the message was still one of "hurry up and wait," with nothing promised to alleviate the persecution and resultant suffering of the undocumented in this state or an

  June 25, 2009

• Obama Wants 287(g) Agencies to be Held Accountable for Actions; Napolitano Wants Status of Some Agencies Revoked

  ​ President Obama popped into a meeting today between government officials and immigrant advocates, saying he wants local 287(g)-authorized agencies "held accountable," a pro-immigrant group said today. Reform Immigration for America stated in a news release that the president wasn't expected at the meeting in Washington D.C. on immigration reform, which was attended by representatives of immigrant-rights groups, "leaders from faith, business, law enforcement, and labor," senior

  August 20, 2009