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Archive for September, 2008

Reason Magazine takes on Russell Pearce

September 5th, 2008, 11:18 am by Jim Ripley

Russell Pearce and his crusade against illegal immigration at the expense of the local businesses and the free market is the cover story of the October issue of Reason magazine that arrived at my home on Thursday.

The magazine trends libertarian in philosophy and is sub-titled “Free Minds and Free Markets.”

It devotes eight pages to an article on Mesa’s Pearce entitled “The one-man wall. How a single Arizona Legislator’s obsession has changed immigration policy for the worse.”

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Big news for Mesa, but

September 3rd, 2008, 2:42 pm by Jim Ripley

It appears that Mesa is aiming for the top of the heap as a Valley convention hotel/resort destination.
That’s not just good news, that’s astonishing news for a city that comes up short too often on the respect scale.
There are “buts,” and we’ll get to those after a little background:
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