Letters to the Editor

Arizona Should Consider Hillary Clinton's Poor Record on Immigration Before Presidential Primary (Letter to the Editor)

By Phoenix New Times
Mar 21, 2016

Arizona Senator Martin Quezada was one of the first Latino leaders in the country to endorse Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, and with tomorrow's presidential preference vote in Arizona, Quezada explains that it's time to set the record straight on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's immigration record. To the...
Does Hillary Clinton Or Bernie Sanders Have A Better Immigration Policy For Arizona? (Letters To The Editor)

By Phoenix New Times
Mar 4, 2016

With Arizona's presidential primary only a few weeks away, many readers have written in to tell us why they support one candidate over another. Here are two local voices — one from a supporter of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and one from a supporter of Vermont Senator Bernie...
Fixing the Child Welfare "Horror Show" in Arizona (Letter to the Editor)

By Miriam Wasser
Feb 22, 2016

With unprecedented numbers of children entering foster care in Arizona every day, there seems to be unanimous agreement among child-welfare advocates and experts that something in the state's system is broken. But what exactly that "something" is — and where it stems from — remains a topic of hot debate. In a...
Phoenix Has a Serious Hate Problem (Letter to the Editor)

By Miriam Wasser
Feb 3, 2016

Whether it's protesting Islam at a mosque or trying to bar a Satanist religious group from participating in public city council meetings, Phoenix has made national headlines continually in the last year for acts of intolerance, bigotry, and hate. And as Phoenix Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz explains in a letter to the editor,...
Oregon Occupation Puts Arizona Public Land-Grab Mania in Focus (Letter to the Editor)

By Miriam Wasser
Feb 1, 2016

The movement demanding the U.S. Federal government "return" all public lands to state ownership may not be anything new in Arizona, but last month's occupation of a federal building in Oregon has put the issue front and center in the public conscious. The occupation, led by Arizona's own Ammon Bundy,...
Arizona Department of Child Safety Responds to New Times Story About Closing Shelter

By Miriam Wasser
Jan 26, 2016

In response to New Times' story detailing the Arizona Department of Child Safety's plan to close its emergency placement center in Phoenix — and allow children who can't immediately be placed in foster care to sleep in DCS offices — DCS spokesman Doug Nick wrote the following letter to the...