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posted on
March 7th, 2009
from
The Zonie Report
based in
Phoenix

Federal agent blows whistle on ATF

TUCSON — Movie rights. Book deals. Public speaking engagements.
Now you can add a federal lawsuit to the repertoire of Jay Anthony Dobyns, a Tucson man who penetrated the depths of the worl ...

posted on
March 6th, 2009
from
The Zonie Report
based in
Phoenix

Charge your engines: Tucson to get electric car grid

Here’s some positive news to interrupt the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it vibe that’s been going around this week: Tucson is to be one site for a trial of electric car grid technology, ...

posted on
March 6th, 2009
from
The Zonie Report
based in
Phoenix

Horton Foote: Chronicler of a vanished age

Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who wrote the screenplay for one of my favorite films, To Kill a Mockingbird, featuring Gregory Peck, died this week.
Foote’s plays and screenp ...

posted on
March 6th, 2009
from
The Zonie Report
based in
Phoenix

Nominate an Arizona hero

Every now and then, Cox Communications increases its rates on Internet access. I get the premium high-speed connection, which just went up about $2 a month to offset recent increases in “oper ...

posted on
March 4th, 2009
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The Zonie Report
based in
Phoenix

Will the real Grand Canyon West please stand up?

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK — The tribe that lives at Arizona’s top tourism destination is locked in a lucrative lawsuit over whether a competitor infringed upon one of its most important tr ...

posted on
March 3rd, 2009
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The Zonie Report
based in
Phoenix

The decline and fall of the big-box store

It’s official: the American economy, already weak, is falling apart. Revised figures released by the Commerce Department last Friday estimate that U.S. economic output plunged by 6.2 percent in t ...

posted on
March 2nd, 2009
from
The Zonie Report
based in
Phoenix

Lent: Time for reflection, maybe a pilgrimage

Lent, the season in which Christians reflect upon the life and death of Christ, started Feb. 25 and lasts until Easter Sunday, April 12. Many Christian churches in the area sponsor additional weekl ...

posted on
March 1st, 2009
from
The Zonie Report
based in
Phoenix

Rural Arizona libraries score big

The city of Page’s Public Library received a three-star status in a recent evaluation by the national magazine, Library Journal (LJ), leaving Arizona’s big-city libraries on the back shelf. ...

posted on
February 27th, 2009
from
The Zonie Report
based in
Phoenix

Denver media meltdown foreshadows Valley news scene

Denver, like Phoenix, was a recent boomtown for Western growth. Yet it’s second and smaller city newspaper is folding Friday in such a way that it leaves me wondering about the media scene he ...

posted on
February 25th, 2009
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The Zonie Report
based in
Phoenix

Journalism’s ‘Leaning Tower of Pisa’

First, I’d like to apologize to Zonie readers for giving them two straight days of inside baseball on journalism. But the details of this game affect how you and your kids consume information ...