Mesa outlines anti-gang plan for healthy community drive
Editorial urges a broad city effort to reduce youth crime via family support, counseling, and a citywide Healthy Parenting campaign. It calls for expanded youth activities, no tolerance for gangs, gun removals, and stronger police, schools, social services, and business involvement.
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Mesa School Board
Mesa United Way
Mesa Schools
Jim Zaharis
East Valley
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Broadway
Police
Mesa
Debates loom as Endangered Species Act turns 20
As the 20th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act arrives the nation faces a polarized clash. Industry groups claim the law curbs progress while environmentalists push for a stronger version before it sunsets this year. Public understanding remains thin and lawmakers seek clear answers on what the act would achieve its costs and who benefits or bears the burden.
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Earth
Congress
Resolutions and pleasures in the New Year
A reflective piece contrasts a friend’s stern list of resolutions with a call to record the year’s best moments. It questions denying joy, notes health trends and “pleasure revenge,” and invites ranking the hours that energized the year as it begins.
Have Some Happy New Year On Your List
Ellen Goodman urges readers to rethink the New Year’s resolutions and pleasures list. She argues priorities crowd joy, friendships, and intimate moments, turning happiness into a habit and an active choice rather than a mere smile or abstract goal.
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Friend
Year of oddities 1993 ends with a curious mix
Recap of bizarre 1993 events spans science worm longevity from a gene change to a happy looking worm, a Florida wife shoots her husband after a channel change, a Libertyville coach feigns a shooting to motivate players, a Chihuahua impregnates a Rottweiler for a $2567.50 payoff, and Cincinnati case of sexual assault linked to fainting at the word sex.
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Rocky
Canella
Cincinnati
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