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Dec.17.2012
My Love for Tucson
This I believe.
There are places on this earth that resonate beyond the five senses. For me, here in the lower forty-eight, I discovered one in Abiquiu, New Mexico, at Ghost Ranch, near Sante Fe where Georgia O’Keeffe waved her magic brush. The second is...
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Dec.14.2012
Do we know the facts? Do we really need to? The words “children shot and killed” are more than enough. Is there a why? Can there ever be? I will repost this, the shooting of another child, not two years ago, evidence that those in American who abide by the...
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Jan.16.2012
Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors
Banned books fuels calls for revolution in Tucson
Native authors in banned book include Leslie Marmon Silko, Buffy Sainte Marie and Winona LaDuke
By Brenda Norrell
Breaking news: Updated Sunday with response from banned author...
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Dec.29.2011
You’re tellin’ white lies You’re tellin’ white lies Well I can see right through that thin disguise Can’t you tell I can tell when you’re telling’ white lies? —Jason and the Scorchers, “White Lies”
Forget so-called “political correctness.” In Arizona, there is a far greater threat to free speech...
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Mar.06.2011
Here's a great website put together by Lee Whiteside that has all the Arizona authors SF authors and our locations during the festival. I think it's awesome that all of them are coming to my festival. And I'm glad to have them showing off their wonderful books.
In addition to me, you can find...
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Feb.19.2011
Inky black Oracle Boulevard reflected the neon lining the street ahead, sparkling and glistening like a onyx pike covered in gooey pitch. This was not the best part of town, but it certainly was not the worst, either. The heat was stifling and the winds nonexistent; the air hung and...
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Jan.15.2011
A man in UK, Mark Papazian, sentenced to 24 years in prison for killing his lover, was also an avid fan of crime novels by PD James and Patricia Highsmith. What are the implications for these authors and Papazian’s action? None to anyone with a scrap of intelligence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi...
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Jan.13.2011
This issue has confused me a great deal. The outrage I felt when the news broke affected me deeply. I saw our country fall apart in front of my eyes. I remember in ’08, when President Obama was elected, hearing the threats and cries of outrage coming from the extreme right and I thought how...
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Jan.13.2011
The whole country is mourning for the victims in Tucson, Ariz. This week, we'll face the funerals, ushering in a whole new wave of grief.
And then, quite abruptly, most of us will tune out. The length of public interest varies by tragedy, but the pattern is always the same. We put the event...
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Jan.12.2011
Note: Seven years ago, I wrote my tribute (below) to Marty Haag, WFAA-TV's longtime News Director, a few days after he died around this time in early January 2004. I tried to get it published-first in print, then on the air-in Dallas where Marty reigned.
It didn't happen.
But, after watching the...
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