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Judge's integrity may give fake electors a free pass

Arizona’s indicted fake electors aren’t scheduled to go to trial until January of 2026. Now, it may be later, which raises the possibility that a...

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Opinion: Fake elector vows 'millions' to get me fired

Two years ago, our now president-elect Donald Trump announced what he called his “free speech policy initiative,” the first lines of which read:...

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Opinion: What does Lake run for next? (Because she will)

I’m sure that failed governor and failed senator candidate Kari Lake, parched and feeling abandoned, would love it if the president-elect allowed...

13.11.2024 5

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Opinion: Hoping Trump will show more respect for veterans

Donald Trump made news last year on Veterans Day when, instead of issuing a simple message of honor and gratitude to those who have served in the...

12.11.2024 40

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Opinion: ‘Secure the Border Act’ is a paper tiger, for now

The Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature, and who put the “Secure the Border Act” (Proposition 314) on the ballot, were sure of two...

12.11.2024 10

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Opinion: Sedona voters to workers: You can't sleep here

The chamber of commerce in Sedona can direct visitors seeking “spiritual and personal enrichment of the body and soul” to the location of the...

08.11.2024 30

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Opinion: 5 lessons from Kamala Harris' concession speech

07.11.2024 4

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Opinion: Abortion rights are protected, for now

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07.11.2024 8

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Opinion: How confusion killed a worthy election reform

Years ago, as a relatively new journalist and a buoyantly naïve devotee of the democratic process, I asked a political operative running the...

07.11.2024 5

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Opinion: Why you should celebrate your election anxiety

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05.11.2024 4

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Opinion: Trump or Harris? A no-fail way to decide

I received a note from a gentleman who knows exactly whom you and I should be voting for in the presidential election, and why. And I plan to share it...

04.11.2024 8

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Opinion: Giffords says all the right things about Trump

There is no such thing as going too far when it comes to Donald Trump. There is nothing he won’t say. Nothing he won’t fantasize about — out...

01.11.2024 6

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Opinion: Marijuana delivery is a pre-election miracle

The ethically challenged, politically paranoid lawmakers currently in control of the Arizona Legislature have spent the past four years raising the...

31.10.2024 5

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Opinion: Arizonans pick this as the best spot to die

30.10.2024 6

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Opinion: County officials still scheme to save democracy

The election process in Maricopa County is going to be safe and secure this time around because the people who made it safe and secure the last time...

29.10.2024 4

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Opinion: A list of BS Trump and friends spewed in Tempe

When pointing out blatant political BS, one surefire starting point is Arizona Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs. The congressman didn’t disappoint...

29.10.2024 6

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Opinion: Don't buy Hobbs' lame excuse for avoiding Harris

Here’s a sentence I never expected to cobble together inside my head, let alone put in print: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs reminds me of Melania Trump....

18.10.2024 7

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Opinion: Phoenix police batter their own reputation

17.10.2024 4

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Opinion: You can treat the long ballot like a buffet

Here’s the thing about America. You get to be whatever kind of citizen you want, at least for now. What that means, as a voter, is that Arizona’s...

16.10.2024 2

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Opinion: Why are Trump, Harris here a lot? Blame slavery

I hate to break this to you, America, but Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are not running for president of the United States. Not all of them, anyway....

15.10.2024 4

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Opinion: Gallego campaign hit with Trump-borne 'illness'

If the World Health Organization officially recognized this widespread physical disorder as a disease — which it should — pathologists would call...

15.10.2024 20

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Opinion: Shots fired at Democrats' office show MAGA fear

In the congested, territorial, steel mill neighborhood where I grew up, you learned as a kid that, sometimes, intimidation is fear in disguise. The...

12.10.2024 6

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Opinion: How to find the pony in a pile of propositions

The ballot you’ll fill out in this year’s election is a lot like that old joke about the two little boys and the steaming pile of you-know-what....

11.10.2024 9

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Opinion: Phoenix struck by a hurricane ... of FEMA lies

It’s not as if U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, the House majority leader, had been fooled into spouting false information. The truth is readily available....

10.10.2024 20

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Opinion: Why Preston Lord's murder isn't national news

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10.10.2024 9

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Opinion: $47 to sign Elon Musk's petition? Not so fast

It is a crime to buy votes. Billionaire MAGA cultist Elon Musk is NOT doing that. He does not want to buy votes. He wants to buy the election. Musk is...

09.10.2024 4

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Opinion: 'Kook Caucus' put party over hurricane relief

08.10.2024 4

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Opinion: Are Republicans planning for Trump to lose?

It seems pretty clear that Republicans are expecting former President Donald Trump to lose the election in November and are busy cooking up a phony...

07.10.2024 10

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Opinion: Lake unwittingly equates Gallego to Lincoln

Last week, Kari Lake said Ruben Gallego is “controlled” by cartels because Gallego’s father, who abandoned his family when Gallego was young,...

07.10.2024 6

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Opinion: ‘Coach’ Walz set to recruit GOP players in Arizona

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03.10.2024 4

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Opinion: Is superintendent Tom Horne fouling up on purpose?

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03.10.2024 30

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Opinion: They want dirt on Gallego’s divorce. It’s not a new tactic

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03.10.2024 5

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Opinion: Boo! Will McCain’s ghost haunt the VP debate?

As far as I know, the only person in direct communication with the late Sen. John McCain’s ghost is Donald Trump, in whose head McCain seems to have...

01.10.2024 10

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Opinion: Finally, a politician does the right thing. Quits

Scottsdale City Council member Tom Durham did something Thursday night that anyone who follow politics on any level would find to be shocking, even...

28.09.2024 10

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Opinion: Kari Lake now has a Mark Robinson problem

Donald Trump has a Mark Robinson problem. And that, in turn, has given Kari Lake a Donald Trump problem. Because these days, when critics of Trump...

27.09.2024 10

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Opinion: Harris must decry abortion deaths during visit

The nonprofit newsroom ProPublica recently reported on the deaths of two women in Georgia, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, whom many believe would be...

26.09.2024 10

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Opinion: Parents sue to spend your cash, no explanation

In the schools I attended, we were taught in civics class that good citizens demand to know how the government spends their tax dollars in order to...

26.09.2024 5

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Opinion: 2 attacks on Democrats' office, but no biggie?

This week, Arizona provided America with proof of the obscene level of tolerance we now have for gun violence. Sometime after midnight on Monday,...

26.09.2024 30

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Opinion: Lawmakers slash ASU funding and hike stupidity

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24.09.2024 20

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OPINION: Hate of Taylor Swift could cost Trump Arizona

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23.09.2024 3

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OPINION: Maybe the AZ GOP should watch more Looney Tunes

If you are anything like me (and I seriously hope that is not the case), you spent a good portion of your Saturday morning childhood parked in front...

21.09.2024 6

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OPINION: Supreme Court could still rob you of your vote

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Frank Moskowitz decided that he would not nullify the votes of millions of Arizona citizens and negate the work...

20.09.2024 6

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OPINION: That bitter DBacks subsidy pill is back again

19.09.2024 6

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OPINION: What Senate IVF vote says about Gallego, Lake

18.09.2024 5

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Too many Arizona teens think it's OK to smuggle people

As a student struggling to pay for college, I worked in a steel mill. Two close friends apprenticed as drywall installers. Another joined the street...

18.09.2024 20

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Assault weapons ban needed after assassination attempt

Arizona’s politicians joined the chorus of elected officials issuing safe, supportive, non-offensive statements after another kook’s failed...

16.09.2024 6

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Only in Arizona would we protect flat-earth lessons

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle and the mathematician Eratosthenes used fairly simple observations and uncomplicated...

13.09.2024 4

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Sinema's Senate career is dead. Her border bill lives on

During Tuesday’s presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris hammered former President Donald Trump for ordering his Republican sycophants in...

12.09.2024 4

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Devils were here on 9/11, but don’t forget the angels

During one of the anniversaries of the attacks that killed thousands at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa., I got an...

11.09.2024 10

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Stephen Richer unmasks the BS of the AZ GOP (again)

10.09.2024 7

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