Brewer, Obama to meet on immigration

President Obama intends to meet with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Thursday, a White House official told FoxNews.com, after criticism mounted over reports the president wouldn’t be able to meet her while she is in Washington this week.

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Arizonans to vote on medical marijuana:

A statewide measure allowing for medical marijuana clinics to be opened in Arizona has qualified for the November ballot.

The Arizona Medical Marijuana Project said Tuesday the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office confirmed the necessary 153,365 voter signatures to qualify the measure for the ballot. If approved, the Arizona Department Health Services would regulate medical marijuana clinics in state. Patients suffering from conditions or diseases such as Parkinson’s, cancer, multiple sclerosis and HIV/AIDS would be able to buy pot for medical and pain alleviating uses.


A different legislature? One can only dream.

Even if all of the incumbents running for the state Legislature win their bids for re-election on Nov. 2, the Capitol will be a very different place next year.

Twenty-four lawmakers have reached the end of their four consecutive two-year term limit and cannot run for their same seat; another 15 have announced they will not be seeking re-election.

Alas, I’m not holding my breath. In Arizona politics it seems that the more things change, the more they say the same…


Courts rejects Goldwater Institute… again

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 1 refused to block the distribution of so-called “matching funds” to candidates running for office under Arizona’s Clean Elections law.

The court denial of the request filed by the Goldwater Institute and some candidates left the door open for a full appeal of a lower court decision.

That April 21 decision upheld the parts of the law that provide extra taxpayer support for publicly funded candidates who are outspent by privately funded opponents or independent groups.

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Let’s give it credit: The Arizona Republic covers dog news as well as any paper in America.

Dogs on Twitter, dogs on Facebook, “Posh pads for pampered pooches” …

Today, the lede story in the Living section story about a doggie named Gabriel who … (sniff) died.

The hedline is “Gabriel gets his wings.”

The web hedline is “Gabriel’s Angels therapy dog left indelible paw prints on children’s hearts.”

The story says that, since he died, Gabriel has gained 1000 new followers on Twitter.

It’s been three years since noble Bandit was left in a Chandler cop car, which the Valley’s media outlets scrambled the jets to cover over a period of what seemed like months.


Arizona’s new one percent sales tax goes into effect today.

As we drive around in our Hummers and SUVs to this Starbucks or that Whole Foods, let’s remember that poor and working people will be buying their kids one percent less food, taking their families out for one percent less fun, and come fall, spending one percent less on back-to-school clothes.

But it’s just one percent. It’s not like these folk weren’t already under enormous pressure living in an economically backwards state whose jobs base, spurred by an unsustainable housing bubble and nothing else, wasn’t already in the toilet.

Oh, wait …