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TPM
By Eric Lach

First, right-wingers reported Mexican drug cartels had invaded Laredo, Texas -- nevermind that law enforcement says it never happened. Now, Arizona Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is lending the stamp of authority to the idea that the cartels are conquering parts of the red, white and blue

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Tags: Paul Babeu, Sheriff, Drug Cartels, Border

Yahoo News
By Julie Pace, Associated Press Writer

President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term investments in the nation's roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he's trying to stimulate the sputtering economy.

The infrastructure investments are part

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Tags: Barack Obama, Infrastructure investments, Congress

robertreich.org

By Robert Reich


The Great Jobs Depression continues to worsen.

The Labor Department reports this morning that companies created ony 67,000 new jobs in August. That’s down from the 107,000 they created in July. And because the government laid off temporary Census workers, the economy

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Tags: Robert Reich, Economy, Labor, Jobs

The Wall Street Journal
AFL-CIO Girds for Labor Day, Election Push
By Melanie Trottman

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka declared this Labor Day a “defining” one for working people. The reason: It marks the two-month countdown to the pivotal fall’s elections.

   “We will either rebuild a fundamentally different

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Tags: AFL-CIO, Richard Trumpka, 2010 Election

Arizona Republic
By Alia Beard Rau

Arizona's new 1 cent-per-dollar sales tax brought nearly $65 million into the state coffers during its first month.

The additional money boosted July 2010 general-fund revenue $49 million above what was collected last July but still fell short of projections. The state

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Tags: 1 cent sales tax, Jan Brewer, Arizona, Education

Arizona Republic
by Edythe Jensen

The Valley will soon become the nation's first and only test site for the fastest wireless technology entering the marketplace, a leap in cellphone and Internet service that could drive down prices for consumers.

Think seamless movie streaming on mobile devices, multiple-player gaming

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Tags: Arizona, Wireless technology, Clearwire, Internet service

KPHO.com

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Gov. Jan Brewer took center stage last Tuesday night after she officially clenched the Republican nomination. Standing just behind her was a man most Arizonans would not recognize.

He’s Chuck Coughlin, Brewer’s campaign chairman, policy adviser and a lobbyist for the largest private prison company in

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Tags: Jan Brewer, Chuck Coughlin, Paul Senseman, Corrections Corporation of America

Capitol Times
By Jeremy Duda

Gov. Jan Brewer and Attorney General Terry Goddard had few memorable lines in their first, and perhaps only, debate, but continually posed one memorable question – where’s your plan?
 
Brewer, the Republican incumbent and Goddard, her Democratic challenger, sparred over who would be able to

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Tags: Te3rry Goddard, Jan Brewer, Arizona, Governor

Arizona City Independent
By Paul Davenport

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer and Democratic challenger Terry Goddard are offering contrasting assessments of Arizona’s economic and fiscal situations as Arizona’s general election campaign begins.

Illegal immigration and border security dominated the debate before Tuesday’s primary election that saw Brewer and Goddard coast to

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Tags: Jan Brewer, Arizona, Governor, Terry Goddard, Economy

East Valley Tribune

Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services

Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of the state's new immigration law and anti-union sentiment, five Republican candidates for statewide office and several congressional hopefuls called on their Democratic foes Tuesday to denounce a boycott and the unions that support those calls. ... read more »

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Tags: Terry Goddard, Felecia Rotellini, Andrei Cherny, SEIU, United Food & Commercial Workers