This article originally appeared in the Southern Arizona News Examiner – soaznewsx.com – check it out! ——————UPDATE ON THE KATY BOLGER STORY————- It has now been two weeks since Tucson City Councilman Paul Cunningham’s Chief of Staff Katy Bolger staggered onto Speedway Blvd in front of a passing cop car, almost got wiped out, and…
This article originally appeared in the Southern Arizona News Examiner - check it out! Tucson City Councilman Paul Cunningham’s chief of staff, Katy Bolger, had a bad night last week when per TPD incident reports she drunkenly staggered into traffic near 5th Avenue and Helen and was almost hit by a cop car. …
This article originally appeared in the Southern Arizona News Examiner, check it out for more great articles – soaznewsx.com By Sam Stone There’s no recession in Washington, D.C. Massive building and construction projects blossom like D.C.’s famous trees. Vast, unending snakes of luxury automobiles slither along the streets. On any given day, many of D.C.’s…
This article was originally published in the Southern Arizona News Examiner The 2013 Marana election contains some decisions on finally putting away the long term, expensive and mostly symbolic fight over who owns the local Lockett Sewer Treatment Plant and the effluent it produces. The first decision Marana’s voters must make is do they want…
By David P. Goldman - on-line columnist “Spengler” Regnery Publishing, 2011 Reviewed by Emil Franzi For all of you, like my dear radio colleague, Tom Danehy, who studiously avoided taking those “liberal arts” classes back when college students had the opportunity to go to real ones, “Spengler” refers to Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), a German historian/philosopher known…
Most reporting about the current redistricting plans for both the Arizona legislature and the nine seats in the U.S. House put forward by the Independent Redistricting Commission failed to cover the system’s obvious flaws. The Democrats gamed the system. To borrow a Chicago phrase, Republicans didn’t even bring a knife to a gunfight. They brought…
I’m tired of those who claim the cronyism and corruption of Tucson’s city government are akin to Chicago’s. It insults Chicago. Detroit, in all its squalor and incompetence, may be a better example. Back in my traveling, political consulting days, I worked several cycles in Illinois for GOP types who actually won before they blew…
R.I.N.O. – Republican In Name Only. Flaky on the issues. More relevant, flaky on the obligation to support other members of the coalition they have chosen, particularly when holding partisan or party office. There may be examples elsewhere called DINOS. The first RINOs I recall were the liberal GOP office-holders who put a shiv in…
DANEHY Republicans in Congress and President Obama are both betraying their country by Tom Danehy TOM – this probably the lamest excuse for political discourse you have ever written. You wouldn’t even make a good Transylvanian peasant – you’d screw up, your torch would go out, and you’d end up burning some innocent farmer’s barn…
THE REFORM POLITICIAN By Lazarus Long, AKA Robert A.Heinlein (As the President told us yesterday, one should not allow something like “signing a pledge just to get elected to interfere with doing the right thing”. EF) “Reform politicians tend to be not only dishonest but stupidly dishonest – whereas the business politician is…
