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5 days ago | 
swoknews.com | David Stringer
So schools are now required to ban student use of cell phones in schools beginning this fall. A bill signed by the governor requires districts to implement a “bell to bell” ban on students using cell phones in school. Personally, I’d have liked to hear his comments about the topic when Gov. Stitt was slated to be in Lawton last week, but he had to reschedule and we missed the opportunity to hear from him first hand. kAmx? H92E x E9@F89E H2D 2? :?E6C6DE:?8 EH:DE[ E96 32?
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1 week ago | 
prescottenews.com | David Stringer
With the current production of Murder On The Orient Express at the Hazeltine Theater, formerly known as the Prescott Center for the Arts (PCA), live theater has returned to Prescott. It has taken less than a year to sort out the ownership and financing issues associated with the closure of PCA.
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1 week ago | 
swoknews.com | David Stringer
Much was made last week of Amazon’s short-circuited plan to itemize tariff fees on their pricing. They argued it was an attempt to be transparent with their customers and a way to leverage deeper discounts from suppliers. The administration, of course, was none too happy given that the president told us all these tariffs would be paid by other countries.
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2 weeks ago | 
swoknews.com | David Stringer
One of the major struggles for journalists these days isn’t what to write about, it’s what not to write about. That’s not necessarily new, though it has taken on a new tone. For years, when I ran newsrooms on a daily basis, I’d get calls from one organization or another asking to have a reporter cover their event. Generally, they were seeking a promise and I learned quickly that a commitment came with challenges.
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3 weeks ago | 
prescottenews.com | David Stringer
The firehose of US Defense spending has just notched a new record. The latest military budget projections show the United States will soon cross the trillion dollar threshold in the coming year.(1) That’s more than all of our potential adversaries combined, with our NATO allies and most of the rest of the world thrown in.
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3 weeks ago | 
swoknews.com | David Stringer
I feel like I’m back in college taking an economics class, learning about tariffs, all the while figuring out that what I know today may be irrelevant tomorrow. In the newspaper industry, we cringed at the across-the-board tariffs that were initially announced. Most newsprint comes from Canada. Though we purchase from a mill in Mississippi for nearly all of our inventory, I wondered if even domestic suppliers would see that as an opportunity to build in a price hike.
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1 month ago | 
swoknews.com | David Stringer
Several years ago I read a biography of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and was struck by the — for lack of a better word — flourish with which he wrote. Yet, despite being a little “flowery”, he was able to make his point, even when it was in opposition to the individual he was communicating with. We seem to have lost that art.
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1 month ago | 
prescottenews.com | David Stringer
A long tradition of humor and satire through drawings and cartoons has been missing from the journalism of Yavapai County. There was a time not long ago when cartoons graced the editorial pages of most daily newspapers. When you didn’t have time to read the paper, you at least glanced at the cartoon. But with the shift from print to cable TV and internet-based presentation of the news, political cartoons have fallen by the wayside. There was a time when editorial cartoonists won Pulitzer Prizes.
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1 month ago | 
swoknews.com | David Stringer
“Clothes make the man,” or so the saying goes. But does it also have an effect on our productivity? There’s been a lot of consternation related to individuals being required to return to office work, post-COVID. It seems too many of us got used to working in our jammies and twisted the “business in the front, party in the back” description applied to the mullet.
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1 month ago | 
prescottenews.com | David Stringer
Hearing again those magical, mesmerizing tunes from “Fiddler On The Roof”, it’s hard to believe that one of Broadway’s greatest musicals is now over sixty years old. And still going strong. In last night’s revival of Broadway’s 1964 smash hit at the Yavapai College’s Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center, “Fiddler” was never in more devoted hands.
