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Jan 14, 2025 | 
yourvalley.net | Phil Griswold |Sun City
Gas-powered leaf blowers contribute to Valley air, noise pollution Posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 4:00 pm Metro Creative Connection By Phil Griswold | Sun City One contributor that was overlooked is the gas-powered leaf blower. This device, used by landscaping crews, may blow leaf debris off of sidewalks, but it also picks up and blows considerable amounts of dust. Its two-cycle engine, which burns a gas-oil mixture, contributes to ozone. A consumer-grade leaf blower emits more pollutants...
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
yourvalley.net | Sun City |Teresa Ladera
By Teresa Ladera | Sun City Donald Trump, narrowly elected as the 47th president, is poised to drag America down like the Titanic. His leadership isn’t just chaotic; it’s dangerous and absurd, with a roadmap learned from tutoring sessions with dictators like Putin and Kim Jong-un.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
yourvalley.net | Sun City |Gary Gardina
Posted Wednesday, January 8, 2025 11:00 am By Gary Gardina | Sun City Perhaps if the solid waste companies provided electronic waste pickups (similar to recycle days), folks wouldn’t simply toss batteries, etc. into the regular trash....
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
yourvalley.net | Jim Kepler |Sun City
(Submitted Art) Posted Friday, November 15, 2024 4:00 pm Yes, Democrats were disappointed by the recent election. While it’s always an issue of ideas, for many of us it was also an issue of morals and integrity. The other candidate cheated people with his fake university and had to pay back $25 million. He was convicted of sexual assault, he was convicted of two separate counts of tax evasion and he was convicted of election fraud. He stole 14 boxes of government documents that the FBI had to...
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
yourvalley.net | Bill Shaw |Sun City
Posted Thursday, November 14, 2024 8:00 am After reading the 11/13/24 op-ed by Tom Patterson on the looming insolvency of Social Security, I was surprised at what was missing. Mr. Patterson dismissed raising the 2025 $176,100 cap on income subject to SS taxes — perhaps a donut-hole approach — 0% from $176,100 to $400,000 (tied to the current index guiding the lower band) and unlimited (like Medicare) thereafter. Instead, he drifts to raising the retirement age as the default option, and...
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
yourvalley.net | Einar Kvaran |Sun City
By Einar Kvaran | Sun CityBrian Reilly’s letter about America’s new golden age is very interesting for a number of reasons. One is his pointing out Donald Trump’s admiration of President Jackson, who, … You must be a member to read this story. Join our family of readers for as little as $5 per month and support local, unbiased journalism.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
yourvalley.net | Doug Novess |Sun City
Posted Thursday, October 31, 2024 3:00 pm By Doug Novess | Sun City The Oct. 27 Madison Square Garden event for Donald Trump reminded me of 1930s Germany. MAGA has to have a boogie man to win elections. At Madison Square, Garden, they went after Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico, which has sent youth who have fought for the United States of America. How many soldiers have been killed in the line of duty from that island? Brian Reilly’s opinion piece is pure projection. Nazi Germany didn’t like...
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
yourvalley.net | Bill Shaw |Sun City
I feel compelled to provide a respectful counterpoint to Brian Reilly’s letter in the 10/31 Daily Independent. Projection is a tactic that DJT has deployed forever. As to the fascism label — VP Harris was just repeating Gen. Kelly’s comments in his NYT op-ed. Gen. Kelly was his longest serving chief of staff.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
yourvalley.net | Bill Shaw |Sun City
Posted Thursday, October 24, 2024 8:40 am The writer incorrectly confuses readers by implying that the initiative calls for ranked-choice voting. It does not. What it does is open up our primaries to the large segment of Arizona voters who do not affiliate with the two major parties. Given our legislative make-up, it will advance only the top two vote getters to the general election. I had signed the petition but had some misgivings in voting yes because it did not mandate RCV, which I would...
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
yourvalley.net | Sun City |Jacquie Rose
Posted Wednesday, October 23, 2024 9:00 am By Jacquie Rose | Sun City When it comes to housing, education and fire safety, we must have an honest, competent, dedicated person leading the Maricopa County Assessor’s Office. Monies collected as property taxes are disbursed by the Assessor’s office to a variety of critical departments, including fire departments and local cities; more than half goes to local public-school districts. I retired to Arizona, but I am concerned about the education of...
