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Choosing the bus in Phoenix

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Yep, folks sure love their cars in Phoenix. The freeway construction never seems to stop, no matter how high the smog rises. And the congestion never seems to stop, either.
But an interesting thing is happening in our sprawling metropolis to the north. People with cars are choosing to take the bus instead.
According to an [...]

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Fighting global warming in Tucson

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

Most reasonable leaders from John McCain to Raul Grijalva now agree that global warming is a major threat to our environment and economy, and we need to act yesterday to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases at every level to avoid disaster. But President Bush announced this week at the G-8 summit that reducing greenhouse gases [...]

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Strong communities, independent seniors

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

An excellent Star front-page article today tells us the story of Dorothy Gooding, a 92-year-old whose driver’s license was revoked. “When they took my wheels, they cut off my legs,” Gooding said. “I felt trapped.”
By 2010, almost one-third of our residents will be seniors, and almost one-half of them will be unable to drive. In [...]

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Flushing our future…

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

In the same week that Fred is dealing with the major issues facing our city by declaring an “Elephant Crisis”, the Star informs us that we have no choice but to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to drink sewage water direct from our taps in the very near future.
Fred is already on record approving [...]

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Preserving Davis-Monthan and Tucson

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Those of us who live in central Tucson are no strangers to the Davis-Monthan flight path. New and louder planes have been flying more frequently and at lower altitudes particularly in recent months, dramatically affecting the quality of life of many of our neighborhoods. And indications are that things will only get worse in the [...]

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