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DetailsBy: J. Charles Coughlin When will Arizona learn how to honor its leaders? When will we not, in a gathering of community leaders, focus on what is wrong with Arizona, but on what is right? We all certainly have our differences, but as our mothers taught us: “if you don’t have anything nice to say…”…
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DetailsFollowing up on our post earlier this week on addressing the underlying frustration of the occupy movement, we see a worthy start on Wall Street reform from Presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. It is a much improved approach over the dismissive “jealous” comment from Herman Cain. Huntsman poses some interesting ideas…
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