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written 9/12/11; The TSA has gotten bogged down with the business of searching people and have forgotten what their real job which is Security. They have wasted money and resource and haven detected any real threat to american security in over 10 years.

Living in Phoenix means you must be very familiar with this type of stuff. No matter what Home Depot you go to in the valley you see armies of immigrants on the curb looking for day work. This is where the problem needs to start being addressed when businesses hire these illegals just to save a buck.

After reading this article, the number of undocumented illegals that come up is alot higher than I thought it would be. We have almost 12 million illegal immigrants living in this country and controlling that number has to start with the businesses.

A day after demanding Washington lawmakers extend middle-class tax cuts while raising taxes on the wealthy, President Obama took his case directly to voters Tuesday, traveling to Iowa to argue that the rich should pay higher taxes in order to cut the deficit and fund his spending priorities.

This article says that 98 percent of Americans want the tax hike, where as the 2 percent it will effect does not. This 98 percent number is outrageous, especially if they are adding me into the mix. It also brings up that the small businesses that we are trying to support are the most effected by the tax hike.

This article introduces the Occupy Phoenix movement as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The occupiers are standing up against corporate greed and politics. They consider themselves to be within the "lower ninety nine percent" of the population. They are partaking in nonviolent protest.

Simple data for making state-by-state comparisons of age, race, income, businesses, etc.

Letters to the editor regarding contraception rules in the new health care law. Some employers want to be exempt from the requirement that they offer contraception coverage to employees. The argument seems to be about whether a company owned by a church qualifies as church-based or if they're just a company like other businesses

A timely article that talks starts out talking about the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion. It also gets around to the difficulties involved in both of those options and then asks the question in the headline. Which then spins the article into a question about what IS the correct amount.

In this article the purposed house bill in Florida 449 will allow ex-convicts to apply for an occupational or business license with out having to wait the 12 year period. Currently ex-cons have a waiting period to have their rights reinstored

While many are protesting Twitter's new censorship attempt, they are not seeing that it will actually help preserve freedom of speech in the US rather than censor it. The only countries that would be held to the certain censorships are ones that request it per religious, historical, or cultural reasons. So, freedom of speech on Twitter will be opened up in the US rather than restricted by the international growth.

DNews.com, writer Scott Sonner states that the forest Service needs to change how it does business with the outside interst groups. The influence of the special interest groups is in violation of law, favoring one group over another and the influence of these groups is having an impace of the national forest.

Arizona has a bill awaiting the state's House approval that would give any employer the option to not offer employees contraception. This bill is meant to protect the businesses that have a religious or moral objection to birth control.

It's frightening to listen to our governor talk about this bill. Scary!

It's already against the law for smokers to light up near businesses, parks and playgrounds in California, but one town is now considering a total outdoor smoking ban - even on private property - all at one family's request. City officials in Rocklin, Calif. are weighing the Baker family's complaint about smoke drifting into their [...] It is an upsetting article about a family that is trying to get smoking banned from private property. Their neighbors smoke and it is affecting the family of non-smokers. Not too much info but gives insight on what people are trying to do out there to limit our personal choice of smoking.

These is a great topic in my opinion. You hear so many people talk about how they have stop smoking to avoid getting sick in the future. I think its great that smoking is banned from many public places, because like they say second smoke has the same affect as if you where the smoker. I see that more and more people prefer non smoking hotel rooms, bars, restaurants etc its a better choose for are health. And like the article mentions of not hiring smokers.

High-tech surveillance networks are providing police and government with the ability to monitor streets, parks and businesses like never before. Police in Sandy have such a system and call it a deterrent to crime. Still, others say it's an invasion of privacy.

Big companies such as AT&T, Facebook, Google and Verizon are selling consumer personal data information. Such items as your locations from your phones to what apps you use are being noted big these comes.

A school case study is trying to raise awareness about women in the workplace and how to give women an equal chance as men in school classes becasue they are just as smart and deserve it.

This site tells how companies are researching possible employees by there social media reputation.

Since I'm not the most social person by nature, I'm not very active with social media. I don't have a Facebook, or Twitter, or whatever. So, if anyone tries to Google me, there's not much that comes up. Hmm, I wonder if that could backfire if a potential employer can't find any information on me by using social media.

I don't believe that employers should be concerned of a potential or current employees social media sites.

Planned Parenthood is considered to be in the abortion business to some people. This article discusses the issues that Planned Parenthood is facing with abortion.

Discusses Arizona's and especially Tucson's long history of dark skies as it relates to astronomy as well as old and renewed policies to combat light pollution. Methods are discussed to reduce lighting while encouraging economic growth. Emphasis is placed not only on restoring dark skies outside of city limits, but within city limits as well while not impacting the social benefits of artificial lighting. The cost of wasted energy to light the sky is also discussed.