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		<title>Arizona &#8220;Clean elections&#8221; Law Challenge Goes to the Supreme Court</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One philosophy holds that the best we can do for this imperfect world is set a few rules against force and fraud, and work to make it better as individuals. In practice, the world remains imperfect, but the aggregate of individual efforts creates a collection of benefits that is inconceivable by any one individual or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Education, Is It All Just About the Money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 18:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona is part of a group of about eight states that are 49th out of 50 in education spending. Others include Florida, Illinois, Idaho, Louisiana, Utah, and Pennsylvania. How can that happen? It&#8217;s all in how you combine the data sets. Anyway, the point is that states are competing to be at the bottom. Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 100 Sales Tax Increase</title>
		<link>http://tucsonsammy.com/2010/04/27/prop-100-sales-tax-increase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I forget exactly when it was. I think it may have been 1999, the last time the state sales tax was increased for education. There were a number of news stories reporting that teachers had to purchase pens and paper for their students with their own cash because the school districts were so starved for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Individuals and States Gear Up to Fight Obamacare</title>
		<link>http://tucsonsammy.com/2010/04/13/individuals-and-states-gear-up-to-fight-obamacare/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsonsammy.com/2010/04/13/individuals-and-states-gear-up-to-fight-obamacare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America took a big lurch to the left in March with the passage of the U.S. Senate health care reform bill. The president and congressional leaders overcame broad bipartisan opposition, and overwhelming opposition by the people (a CNN poll showed 59% opposed, with 39% in favor), to get it on the books. Our country now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University of Arizona Clings to an Archaic Understanding of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though the University of Arizona is an institution of higher learning, it appears that the students and faculty are decades behind in regards to the cultural and legal progress of the right to keep and bear arms (RKBA).
It was back in 1987 that the state of Florida took the lead in passing a new type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True Charitable Giving</title>
		<link>http://tucsonsammy.com/2010/02/15/true-charitable-giving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The devastation that is now Haiti has revealed the character of both people and nations. In particular, it reveals the economic and cultural superiority of America.
The Haitian situation is special in that there is no single problem that when cured will allow the country to move forward. There is no country left to move forward. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson City Council moves meeting to Civic Center, bracing for big crowd</title>
		<link>http://tucsonsammy.com/2010/01/06/tucson-city-council-moves-meeting-to-civic-center-bracing-for-big-crowd/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsonsammy.com/2010/01/06/tucson-city-council-moves-meeting-to-civic-center-bracing-for-big-crowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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On Tuesday, January 5, the regular session of the Tucson City Council was move to the Civic Center in anticipation of large protest crowds. The agenda that day included the discussion of budget options, including cuts to public safety and a new &#8220;Landlord&#8217;s Tax&#8221;.  
Many people from groups representing police, fire, and renters were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson Celebrates Bill of Rights Day</title>
		<link>http://tucsonsammy.com/2009/12/18/tucson-celebrates-bill-of-rights-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I am sure you all know, December 15 was Bill of Rights Day. In Tucson, it was celebrated in a manner reminiscent of colonial times.
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The amendments were ratified on December 15, 1791, which would make December 15, 2009 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Inhofe asks UofA&#8217;s Malcolm Hughes to not destroy &#8220;Climategate&#8221; records</title>
		<link>http://tucsonsammy.com/2009/12/02/senator-inhofe-asks-uofas-malcolm-hughes-to-not-destroy-climategate-records/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsonsammy.com/2009/12/02/senator-inhofe-asks-uofas-malcolm-hughes-to-not-destroy-climategate-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tucson&#8217;s Arizona Daily Star reports that Sentor Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma has written a letter to Malcolm Hughes, and the University of Arizona Legal department, asking him to not destroy records regarding what has come to be known as the &#8220;Climategate&#8221; scandal. Professor Hughes is also one of the developers, along with Michael Mann and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Benefits of the Rosemont Mine</title>
		<link>http://tucsonsammy.com/2009/11/22/economic-benefits-of-the-rosemont-mine/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsonsammy.com/2009/11/22/economic-benefits-of-the-rosemont-mine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Augusta Mining Company&#8217;s plan to build an open pit mine in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson has been controversial from the start. The Rosemont Mine project will cover 4,300 acres, about one third of which is privately owned by Augusta, the rest is U.S. Forest Service land. Many support the plan for [...]]]></description>
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