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1 week ago |
azcentral.com | Phil Boas
If Arizona is going to ride this new industrial wave, it’s going to have to develop. The "State of the City” address is usually a well-scripted big-hall production with cinematic screens that inflate the image of the mayor and city. In other words, they can be yawners. Five words, however, stood out in Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego’s May 20 State of the City address. "Data centers serve a purpose." Such faint praise is damning from a mayor of one of the global leaders in data processing. Need a break?
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1 week ago |
azcentral.com | Phil Boas
The person who gunned down two young people at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on May 21, did not just bring a 9 mm. handgun to the shooting. He brought an ideology. He spoke the language of the anti-Israel protest movement heard on the streets of America and in the classrooms of our major-college classrooms before and after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas invasion of Israel. “Free, free Palestine,” the accused gunman chanted on camera as he was being arrested.
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2 weeks ago |
azcentral.com | Phil Boas
The DOJ investigations into major police departments, including Phoenix's, were nothing but a racket - highly expensive, with few real results. The Trump administration ended federal oversight of several city police departments, including those in Phoenix, Minneapolis and Louisville. Phoenix wisely resisted federal intervention and instead initiated its own police reforms.
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2 weeks ago |
azcentral.com | Phil Boas
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is pursuing a centrist reelection strategy focused on economic development. She supported utility companies and attracted large investments, sometimes at odds with her party's base. Hobbs even may be considering a centrist Republican as her running mate. As Donald Trump dithers over which Republican is MAGA enough to get his 2026 endorsement for governor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs is plying a centrist course for reelection.
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3 weeks ago |
azcentral.com | Phil Boas
Several Arizona cities, including Tempe, are reinstating red-light cameras after a period of disuse. But we should be more concerned about the increasing prevalence of surveillance technology. Technology experts are pessimistic about the future of democracy in a technologically advanced world, and for good reason. I still remember the first debates about traffic-enforcement cameras in Arizona in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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