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U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly made a very brief appearance in Show Low on Tuesday.His plane landed at Show Low Airport just after 10:30 a.m., and from there he was taken to White Mountain Performance and Horne Auto Center.The reason for his visit remains unclear, specifically considering that President Joe Biden was in Washington signing the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors Act, a bipartisan bill that Kelly endorsed and takes partial credit for.The CARES Act did come up in conversation between Kelly and Dan Macleod, the general manager at Horne Auto Center, along with water concerns affecting the state. Macleod...

In our news wrap Wednesday, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announced an agreement with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on legislation for health care costs, climate change, deficit reduction and more. Also, President Biden left isolation after testing negative for COVID, the WHO urged precautions for monkeypox, and two former Minneapolis police officers were sentenced in George Floyd's death.

With just two days to go, the New Jersey gubernatorial election has turned into a horse race among three candidates, a remarkable development considering that the incumbent, Democrat Jon Corzine, has huge unfavorable ratings. As one radio talk-show host put it: “Who is voting for Corzine?” The answer is simple: people who benefit from big government. In a high-tax, big-spending place like Jersey, much of the burden of funding government falls on a narrow slice of residents who pay steeply progressive taxes, while the benefits of expanding government are enjoyed by those who receive more in services than they pay...

Nancy Pelosi is watching California's Prop 1A intently. In only a hundred days and change, President Barack Obama has committed $6.5 trillion to waste, fraud, and abuse. That’s $6,500,000,000,000.00, which is more than all the costs of World War I and World War II combined. And you think it can’t get worse? Believe me, it can. Things have gotten so bad, that even in my home state of California a Republican Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is urging support for a massive $16 billion tax hike which is deceptively masquerading as a measure to put a lid on out-of-control government spending. You...

Thank You Mr. President ! During the presidential campaign you stole the Republican's Issue. The stump speech given by your campaign (and the future TOTUS) kept talking about the over-spending of President Bush and the Republican congress. Your platform was about fiscal responsibility and cutting taxes (to 95% of the country). That argument was very popular in taxpayer land. It was also the argument that the GOP has used successfully for years. What gave Obama's argument legitimacy was that republican's talked that game but acted differently. In less than 70 days since he took office the POTUS/TOTUS has proven to...

This is why people hate Toronto No, not the new ROM - but the pretentious, self-parodic ceremony that launched it Robert Fulford, National Post Published: Saturday, June 09, 2007 TORONTO -The temporary bleachers have long since been cleared away but Torontonians who attended the opening of the Royal Ontario Museum's (ROM) new addition last Saturday night are still trying to forget. It was an occasion to delight those who despise the pretensions of Toronto. No doubt they will savour, till their dying days, how dreadful it was. But we who love Toronto hope we can (as mourners are advised...

Wolves guard the henhouse By Lorrie Goldstein Toronto Sun Thursday, May 24, 2007 Relying on Big Government to protect us from Big Oil is like relying on bankers to protect us from bank fees. Big Government and Big Oil are joined at the hip in fleecing us because the higher the price of gasoline, the more government makes in taxes. Clearly, the price of gas today isn't determined by anything approaching a free market. Indeed, it's amusing to watch the same oil industry shills and cheerleaders, who otherwise don't trust government to tie its own shoelaces, point to repeated...

A STATEMENT FROM THE GOVERNOR -- June 22, 2006 The following is a statement from Governor Tim Pawlenty regarding the full-page ad in today’s Star Tribune from the “Growth & Justice” think tank calling for a $2 billion per year tax increase. “After decades of struggle, we are proud to have moved Minnesota out of the top ten in taxes. We now have budget surpluses and double digit revenue growth to the state. We are not undertaxed and will be able to fund our key priorities like education without raising taxes. “Having read the names of those who signed the...

Groundhog Day, redux By: RAY HAYNES - Commentary In the movie "Groundhog Day," Bill Murray's character wakes up to the same refrain from the song "I Got You, Babe" every morning, and that is how he knows he is stuck in the same place on the same day, day after day, throughout the movie. I keep hearing the same refrain day after day, week after week, year after year, from the Democrats in Sacramento. This last week was no exception. In 1998, then Gov. Pete Wilson proposed a $58.6 billion general fund budget. Between 1999 and 2001, the state experienced...

In the latest Cato Tax and Budget Bulletin, Stephen Slivinski uses revised data released during the summer by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to make side-by-side comparisons of the spending habits of each president during the last 40 years. While the data show that all presidents presided over net increases in spending, George W. Bush is shown to be one of the biggest spenders of them all, even outpacing Lyndon B. Johnson in terms of discretionary spending. An excerpt from the report: "The increase in discretionary spending - that is, all nonentitlement programs - in Bush's first term was 48.5...

The Washington elite are at it again. The partisan jockeying for political positions has begun and no matter which political party wins the debate on Capital Hill, the American people will lose…again! Where I come from, a “budget” is a tool of fiscal discipline. If it isn’t balanced, somebody is losing something somewhere, or everyone is filing bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is defined as “A debtor that is judged legally insolvent.” Insolvent is defined as “unable to meet debts or discharge liabilities, resources insufficient to meet all debts.” America has qualified under these definitions for many years, except to date no one...

INCUMBENT LIBERTARIAN UNDER ATTACK! An urgent message from Ron Crickenberger, National Libertarian Political Director Dear Libertarian Compatriots, Martin Howrylak, incumbent Libertarian City Councilman and Mayor Pro-Tem of Troy, Michigan is facing vicious attacks from Republicans in his bid to retain his council seat. This Libertarian needs our help right now if he is to stay in office. And the election is April 7 -- only 3 weeks away. In his first term Howrylak: * Kept the campaign promise that brought him into office, and repealed the pension plan the council had voted itself. He then lead a charter amendment drive...

Letter from the Chairman, Al Cardenas, Republican Party of FloridaAt long last, the general election season is upon us. Janet Reno, in all likelihood, actually brought more voters to the polls in the Democrat primary for governor, despite being outspent in a big way. As a result, Bill McBride has emerged nicked and tarnished from a heavily divided primary and his first decision is already a flop. He picked Tom Rossin to be his running mate and the choice was met with a chorus of yawns. Rossin is a retiring state senator from south Florida with a long list of...

McBride-Rossin Ticket Bad for Florida’s Families Date: September 18, 2002 _______________________________________________________________ Quotes from around the state on Rossin: "It's going to be very difficult for me to run around with two elderly white male lawyers and go into my churches and inspire them." -- Rep. Chris Smith, D-Fort Lauderdale (St. Petersburg Times) "What's his name again?" -- Chuck Floyd, Democratic chairman in Alachua County (St. Petersburg Times) ''I'm incensed. I don't know who he is. I have to deliver votes in North Dade. People trust my judgment. I know nothing about him. Why is he choosing a lieutenant governor...