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- Keep the language plain and simple |
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- To read additional letters and tips on how to comment, visit us online at www.dailystar.com/opinion |
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- Lawmakers repeatedly laud bipartisan legislation with high praise, clearly implying that bipartisan approval means it is a great victory for the people and the nation. In all too many cases, bipartisan compromise amounts to quid pro quo trade-offs that tighten the stranglehold of the two-party system on national politics at the expense of the people. |
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- What I didn't get is if they were simply repeating catchwords coined by the Chavez campaign, or if, in effect, they were declaring themselves communists by conviction. |
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- Editor's note: This article is a response to a previous guest opinion ("MADD uses bogus stats to chip away our rights," Dec. 7). |
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- COLBY, Wis. ? Wisconsin, which proudly calls itself "America's Dairyland" and embraces all things cheese as a whey of life, is not yet ready to become a second-rate cheese power. |
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- Tucson's mortgage powerhouse is still working on becoming a place where you can stash your pennies. |
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- AURORA, Colo. ? Rows of little plastic domes dot the roof of the new Wal-Mart Supercenter here, looking like a marching band of "Star Wars" R2-D2s. |
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- WASECA, Minn. ? The former Enron chief who once resided in a $4.7 million, Mediterranean-style mansion in Houston's toniest neighborhood will spend most of the next quarter-century with three other prison inmates in a converted college dorm room. |
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- WASHINGTON ? Car buyers will face a new form of sticker shock when they browse dealer lots next year: Mileage estimates will be down, reflecting the way people actually drive. |
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- The International Association of Machinists Local 933, representing about 1,900 workers, remained on strike against Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems. The three-year contract expired on Nov. 5. |
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- Dubai firm exiting U.S. ports market |
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- QI have a boss who is a control freak. He thrives on blaming other people and making them look bad, especially in front of his bosses. If someone makes a small mistake, he makes it appear bigger than it is. |
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- SAC Capital Advisors LLC, the $10 billion hedge-fund firm run by Steven Cohen, raised its stake in Phelps Dodge Corp. to 5.1 percent and said it would oppose the copper miner's take-over by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. |
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Wall Street (Dec 13 2006 05:19 GMT) - Wall Street extended its advance Monday as investors digested new takeover developments and placed bets ahead of the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates. A series of recent acquisition announcements has reassured investors that corporations still feel the economy is robust enough to strike deals. About $45.4 billion worth of acquisitions were announced by Standard & Poor's 500 companies last week. Driving the Dow Jones industrials was American International Group Inc. |
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- WASHINGTON ? The U.S. housing market is becoming more sustainable after a growth spurt it couldn't maintain, U.S. |
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- Armed National Guard troops are no longer welcome in the Tohono O'odham Nation's Pisinimo District. |
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- Fresh, raw produce such as lettuce, spinach, tomatoes and green onions was responsible for the illnesses or deaths of nearly 19,000 people nationwide over a five-year period. |
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- SANTIAGO, Chile ? Thousands of mourners honored Gen. Augusto Pinochet on Monday, many weeping openly as they kissed his glass-topped casket in a military ceremony that exposed deep divisions over the legacy of his 17-year dictatorship. |
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- ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia ? Ethiopia is a perilous place to be an Abyssinian lion ? so perilous that an Italian aid group brought two orphaned cubs to the Italian Embassy, where the wife of a diplomat has been caring for them in a fenced garden. |
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- BAGHDAD ? Two car bombs exploded within seconds of each other today on a main square in central Baghdad, killing at least 54 people and wounding more than 106, police said. |
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- PHOENIX ? Arizona officials are intensifying their efforts to make sure the Phoenix area gets its fair share of federal homeland security grants following a year of unexpected cutbacks. |
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- Yule around the clock on 402 radio stations |
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- Question: A recent newspaper headline: "Skies not always friendly to Fido." How did "Fido" become synonymous with dog? |
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Corrections (Dec 13 2006 05:19 GMT) - ? An article Monday on B1 about five Southern Arizona birds listed in the most 20 popular species nationally by Birder's World magazine failed to credit the photographers and/or owners of the pictures. |
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- Scientists appear to have found a fingerprint of Alzheimer's disease lurking in patients' spinal fluid, a step toward a long-awaited test for the memory-robbing disease that today can be diagnosed definitively only at autopsy. |
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- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ? A peace deal between Pakistan's government and Islamic militants in the northwestern tribal region of North Waziristan has created a virtual Taliban mini-state where mullahs dispense justice and fighters are launching cross-border attacks into neighboring Afghanistan, a think tank reported Monday. |
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- WASHINGTON ? Congress comes and goes, but new federal regulations just keep on coming. |
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- Americans, especially those 60 and older, are doing a better job of keeping their blood pressure under control, a new analysis says, a sign that people are getting the message about high blood pressure's risks. |
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- TEHRAN, Iran ? Iran hosted Holocaust deniers from around the world Monday at a conference examining whether the Nazi genocide took place, a meeting that Israel's prime minister condemned as a "sick phenomenon." |
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- PHOENIX ? Final campaign reports show state House Speaker Jim Weiers used a last-minute spending spree for mailers and automated phone calls to fend off a strong Democratic challenge and squeeze out his re-election win last month. |
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- PHOENIX ? Former state Treasurer David Petersen was ordered to pay $4,500 in penalties and placed on probation for three years after pleading guilty to failing to disclose his outside income. |
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- PHOENIX ? Officials at the National Center for Missing Adults say funding cutbacks could force the center to shut down within a year. |
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- A wide-ranging, ambitious program of new culverts and bridges across roads, better land management and preservation is being proposed to improve wildlife corridors in the state, including three major corridors in Southeast Arizona. |
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- All students at Salpointe Catholic High School soon will face a test more stomach-wrenching and nerve-racking than Advanced Placement exams or the SAT ? mandatory drug testing. |
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- When 41-year-old Brian Duffield suffered a heart attack last May, it was a big surprise not only to him, but to his family and friends who describe the Tucsonan as an elite swimmer and athlete. |
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- He was denounced as anti-Muslim by protesters outside, but controversial author Steven Emerson drew applause inside Tucson's Jewish Community Center on Monday night when he called on Muslim leaders to "unambiguously condemn" Islamist terrorist groups. |
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- State Rep. Phil Lopes seemed restless with excitement at a local luncheon shortly after the September primary. |
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- The Arizona Daily Star is preparing its annual list of private and charter schools to be published early next year. |
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- The State Transportation Board's monthly meeting will be in Tucson this week, one of the few times a year the board meets here. |
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Deaths (Dec 13 2006 05:19 GMT) - The deceased are from Tucson unless otherwise noted. Occupations are stated when available. |
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- A woman whose drunken driving caused a man's death was sentenced Monday to three years in prison and five years of probation while more than 80 people filled the courtroom to hear her fate. |
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Lottery (Dec 13 2006 05:19 GMT) - Drawings for Monday, Dec. 11 |
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- PHOENIX ? Final campaign reports show state House Speaker Jim Weiers used a last-minute spending spree for mailers and automated phone calls to fend off a strong Democratic challenge and squeeze out his re-election win last month. |
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- PHOENIX ? Former state Treasurer David Petersen was ordered to pay $4,500 in penalties and placed on probation for three years after pleading guilty to failing to disclose his outside income. |
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- PHOENIX ? Officials at the National Center for Missing Adults say funding cutbacks could force the center to shut down within a year. |
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- PHOENIX ? Arizona officials are intensifying their efforts to make sure the Phoenix area gets its fair share of federal homeland security grants following a year of unexpected cutbacks. |
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- The second of two Tucson men who went on a 30-minute robbery spree in March, John David Ward, was sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison Monday. |
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- One of two men accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl in a North Side tunnel agreed Monday to testify against his co-defendant as part of a plea agreement. |
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- Tucson police are looking for the driver of a vehicle who plowed through three Winterhaven front yards Monday morning, damaging Christmas decorations in two of them. |
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