When I read about the senseless killing of Daunte Wright by a Minnesota police officer, I thought of my friends Isaac Cudjoe and Kevin Isabelle-Peete. Several years ago, while living and worki…
President Biden’s announced intention to complete the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by September 11, exactly 20 years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, will complete a goal former President Trump wanted to meet, but did not, following ad…
A major expansion of gambling is coming to Arizona, following approval by the Legislature this week and a signature from Gov. Doug Ducey Thursday. Negotiations had been going on for a while with the big players involved, mainly Native American tribes and professional sports owners. Everyone …
“Do you want to be a boy?” Keira Bell says that’s a question her mother asked her when she was 14. She had been a tomboy in her youth, from a broken home. When she hit puberty, she suffered, as many a girl does, with the changes and the monthly physical pain. And when the question of her gen…
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Just six months ago — it seems like so much longer — many Democrats were supremely confident about their prospects in the 2020 election. Some saw Joe Biden winning in a landslide over then-President Donald Trump. Speaker Nancy Pelosi believed House Democrats would increase the size of their …
Pinal County’s cities are surrounded with miles of open desert, although growth is changing that somewhat. The increased population is raising the likelihood that some residents will dump their trash out in those beautiful desert areas, although this is by no means a new problem. And being l…
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He hasn’t even been the former president for three months, but already it has started. The historians’ evaluation of Donald J. Trump is underway. It’s not as easy as it looks.
Are you ready for a change? In other words, have you reached a point where you need something in your life to be different in some way?
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One thing this last year did was create a desire in people to get out in nature more. RV and camper sales have soared as people engaged more in the great outdoors desiring more personal space. The same has happened with land and non-HOA subdivisions. People want space and they are willing to…
It is a common error among people attempting to solve a problem to identify the symptom and offer a solution, without knowing what the actual problem is. Usually the solution involves spending money. An example would be a company has reduced sales and a sales executive decides that more must…
Every Arizona student deserves the opportunity to be successful in college.
Back in the day when “Saturday Night Live” was funny, Chevy Chase would open the “Weekend Update” segment by saying, “I’m Chevy Chase ... and you’re not.”
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Arizona is again preparing to execute some criminals in Florence. The two men, as usual, long ago were convicted of heinous crimes. One of the murder victims was an 8-year-old child in Tucson and the other an Arizona State University student. As always, the length of time that has elapsed ha…
It started as one of those ridiculous controversies of the Trump era. In May and June 2017, then-President Donald Trump blocked a few Twitter trolls who were criticizing his tweets. The next month, those trolls, backed by Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute, sued the presi…
After a Trumpist mob outside the Capitol failed on Jan. 6 to reverse the results of the presidential election, QAnon believers predicted “the storm” would come instead on March. 4. I did not.
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“It is not only a bad idea, it upsets the constitutional design and it disservices the country” — 2005 speech by then-Sen. Joe Biden about ending the Senate filibuster rule.
With the nice weather Arizona is having, this is a good time to get an off-road vehicle and go exploring. Here we have two of the more popular choices, starting with the Jeep Gladiator truck. Its base price is $34K, but this was loaded up with everything, so it cost far more.
That sigh you hear — that collective exhale — is the expression of relief issuing forth from the political classes of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Do you know what a politician is? I’m only asking because you may just be as uninformed as I was.
I recently shopped for paint at one of the mega-hardware stores. Enough to cover a plank for a gate falling off the hinges. A pint would do it.
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While warming up for a recent tennis match, a pal said, “We’ve all been vaccinated. Can’t we ditch our masks?”
It is difficult to change a narrative once it has been established in the public’s mind.
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A long trend of diversifying and growing Pinal County’s economy has been boosted by electric vehicle plants built or announced in recent years. But a new level of achievement is signified by the opening of the Drive48 regional workforce training center Wednesday at Central Arizona College’s …
In early March, President Joe Biden met with a group of seven historians in the East Room of the White House. One topic of conversation: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal. “He’d like to be [FDR],” Axios’ Mike Allen reported in an inside account of the meeting. “Biden’s presidency ha…
In honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, CASA of Pinal County is asking the community to spread awareness and stand up against child abuse.
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The COVID-19 pandemic may be on the decline, but the aftermath will live on for a long time. Part of that is an attempt to find liability and place blame. Arizona’s Republican legislative majority has attempted to keep that from doing too much damage. Meanwhile, trial lawyers aren’t happy.
Shhhh. Don’t tell Joe Biden, but he is the modern incarnation of Richard M. Nixon.
How well are you taking care of your heart? Are you eating, exercising and sleeping properly? And are you doing your best to eliminate stress as much as you can?
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The question was: What kind of fish can you catch in a canal? So asked Andy Howell, PinalCentral’s assistant managing editor.
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When I heard Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas say last Sunday on “Meet the Press” that the southern border “is closed,” it immediately brought to mind claims by Iraq’s former information minister — dubbed “Baghdad Bob” and “Comical Ali” (aka Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf) — about Sad…
“Racism is real in America, and it has always been,” said Vice President Kamala Harris after a shooting in Atlanta left eight dead, six of them women of Asian descent.
“Imagine feeling so alienated from your body that you would consider taking cross-sex hormones and removing your genitals. That’s the tragic situation that many people with gender dysphoria experience. They aren’t faking it, and they didn’t actively choose it.”
Arizona, a growing state with only three state universities, relies heavily on its network of community colleges in the various counties. Students there have an affordable way to get a good start on a bachelor’s degree, and the Legislature has considered allowing the colleges to offer four-y…
On April 7, 2017, less than four years ago, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate joined a majority of Republicans to sign a letter supporting the filibuster. The letter, to Senate leaders Mitch McConnell and Charles Schumer, began: “We are writing to urge you to support our efforts to …
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Arizona is a leader in the school choice movement, and that generally is a good thing, especially in seeing the record of traditional schools in some states while dealing with the pandemic. But Arizona’s charter schools could use more regulation, although most are well run and popular in att…