Land Reclaim Battle Over 1912 Grants Near Salt River Valley
Paul Ypsilanti of Mesa voices alarm as state officials seek to reclaim vast land claimed in 1912. The area has since become highways, homes, Sky Harbor Airport and Sun Devil Stadium, making recovery legally complex and historically contentious. The dispute pits lawyers against a backdrop of past dispossession of Indigenous lands and lasting social impact.
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Sky Harbor Airport
Sun Devil Stadium
Paul Ypsilanti
Mesa
Right to Life defends nonviolent aid role in Arizona
Arizona Right to Life rejects claims of militancy used to justify excluding its Gilbert Days booth. The group emphasizes seven million members, vast support networks, and free services for pregnant women, including medical care, counseling, housing, and legal aid, noting many communities welcome volunteers.
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Arizona Right To Life
Gilbert
Lowry
Armed Forces seek balance after Limbaugh coverage
The Armed Forces Radio and TV Service may seek balance following extensive Limbaugh exposure. The comment mentions Jay, David, Arsenio, Sally, Phil, Oprah, Geraldo, and Montel as examples, and cites Les Aspin and Congressman Robert Dornan in the debate.
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Armed Forces
Jay
David
Arsenio
Sally
Phil
Oprah
Geraldo
Montel
Limbaugh
Les Aspin
Robert Dornan
Two-way accountability urged for child support system
A Tribune letter argues that the 3 percent payment figure misleads. It urges accountability for both paying and spending child support, notes noncustodial and custodial parents’ failures, and calls for a two-way street to protect children. Readers urged to send signed letters for publication.
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the Tribune
Dan Thompson Mesa
New York's Giuliani pushed to curb gun crime and gang violence
A.M. Rosenthal comments on the civil crisis of criminality in American cities, urging local and state action over federal law. He highlights Giuliani's early measures in New York to lock down school streets, arrest street drug peddlers, and support stricter gun control ideas. He cites 342 NYC killings by stray bullets this year and argues for mandatory drug therapy for criminals with drug histories.
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America
John Ray
District of Columbia Council
Washington Post
Clinton
Ray
New York City
Rudolph
Giuliani
New York
Community voices defend inclusion of gay-parent books in libraries
A reader from Scottsdale argues against removing Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy's Roommate from libraries. She says public libraries foster discovery and diversity, noting these books reflect real life and help readers validate families with same gender parents.
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Heather
Daddy
Nancy Drew
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Wilma Rudolf
Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians & Gays
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Bennett seeks moral underpinnings in Book of Virtues
In a Tribune dispatch, Michael Skube profiles Bill Bennett as he promotes The Book of Virtues a treasury of moral stories. Bennett stresses old fashioned virtues self discipline honesty loyalty and faith arguing society must rebuild its moral vocabulary. The piece notes his past as a Democrat turned Reagan ally and his academic background.
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Bill Bennett
National Humanities Center
North Carolina
Bennett
William J. Bennett
U.S. Secretary of Education
Ronald Reagan
Williams College
University of Texas
Harvard
Atlanta
Pat Buchanan
Robert Frost
Martin Luther King Jr
Emerson
Emily Dickinson
James Baldwin
Faulkner
Dickens
Aristotle
Bennett argues for virtue and courage in modern youth
The speaker advocates returning to a moral universe based on virtue and character. He notes societal drift toward self gratification, cites 1960 as a benchmark, and argues that knowing the right thing to do is essential, urging parents and educators to teach courage and discernment to prepare the young. Michael Skube writes for the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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Dean of Discipline
Flannery O’connor
Aristotle
Chicken Little
Aesop
Henry V
Henry
Agincourt
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Atlanta Journal- Constitution
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