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Re: “Background Noise”
Apparently no one in politics has heard of the Privacy Act, Fifth Amendment, Second Amendment or the multitude of Federal laws regarding firearm purchases that law enforcement chooses to ignore.
Re: “Mensa mini-quiz”
It is Pasofino , "Mensambr". Palomino is a color of a horse.
Re: “Kicking Success Around”
If the county and city government stays out of the sports, Tucson will do well. It is the county and city leaders that killed spring training in Tucson. I think some of guys even went to Japan a few times and those trips failed.
Re: “Kicking Success Around”
I'm so impressed Tucson. I moved to Portland 12 years ago to become a Timbers supporter and here I am, heading back to Tucson to watch Soccer, of all things. The irony is that "your" Tucson Padres are actually the old Portland Beavers that were sold and moved out to accomodate Soccer. Plus to see baseball fields turned into soccer fields really highlights where those two sports are headed.
This is the future, Tucson is smart to spend a little up front for a much bigger return for years to come. Better stadium and fields are still needed but this is a huge boost for the economy and sport.
Re: “The Case of Liberty Cove”
Few of these comments, save the one about crony capitalism, touch the simultaneous, big picture and subterranean one. I have been a Rocky Point man since 1959. The plans for a Port there are no secret. What is not spoken of...is who is invested with PEMEX to arrange for their own future silver lining. To be polite I will simply say, you are warm. The road through Casabel that got shot down is intimately linked to Puerto Penasco and the proposed Inland Port near Wilcox.
Re: “The Saintly Dr. O'Leary”
by the previous comment, just wanted to correct my name, my English is not good, unless the grammar: D, I live in Mexico. and wanted to thank you for the story of my uncle, I loved it.
Re: “Local Heroes 2012”
Wow. I actually learned something about Tucson history from a bearded lady! Now there's a set of words I wouldv'e never imagined stringing together within one sentence.
You'll have to pardon my ignorance because I'm not too much older than the name change, I've always seen it as the DeAnza. I just figured you read it wrong because you didn't label it with the most current name. Do you still call the Costcos in town Price Clubs and the Target at Broadway & Rosemont Fedmart? All the Smith's Grocery Stores that were in town are now Fry's Grocery Stores, in case you weren't aware. What I'm getting at is: if you had labeled it DeAnza I would've never doubted your words. But someone does (Mr. Vanderpool, Demion Clinco and/or others) because I'm sure the journalist here followed all his leads and reported them as he saw fit. I wonder, did you contact him by phone or e-mail to state your disdain for what you view as a mistake? I am curious.
Anyways, I have some shopping to do at Zody's now before I meet with a friend at Sambo's for dinner and after that I'll stop at the Utotem to get a Bubble-Up. All hail the bearded female!
Re: “Local Heroes 2012”
AZ/DC, the screens are one and the same. The DeAnza Theatre used to be called the Cactus Drive-In in its heyday.
Re: “The life of Timothy H. O'Sullivan”
I'm confused- the article says that the photos are at The University of Phoenix's "Center for Creative Photography", and that they were taken under U.S. government auspices...aren't they publicly owned???
I ask because they're labeled as "copyrighted" in a collection elsewhere in this paper, and circulating online...
Link to article here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149899/The-American-West-youve-seen-Amazing-19th-century-pictures-landscape-chartered-time.html?ITO=1490
Re: “The Saintly Dr. O'Leary”
ok, just a correction my name is Irlanda only, Irlanda Lizarraga Oleary, NOT IRLANDA PALOMA; AND THANKS FOR THE HISTORY OF MY UNCLE :D
Re: “Local Heroes 2012”
Mr. Vanderpool mentioned the Cactus Drive-in screen, not the DeAnza. You took credit away from the right man. FYI.
Re: “Liberty Cove: A Timeline”
Shouldn't Don Diamond be dead by now? Holy crap this guy is single handed responsible for the most extensive rape of Tucson area land than all others combined. This bass turd phuck would sell the Grand Canyon to build houses in a heartbeat. He is one reason Tucson sucks so bad, if you disagree try to drive from Oracle and Ina to Harrison and Broadway at 430 any weekday, no freeways = Don Phuck Head Diamond!
Re: “The Case of Liberty Cove”
Matthew J. Mickley
age 47, of Phoenix, Ariz., formerly of Louisville and North Canton, Ohio passed away Sunday, April 3, 2011 in Phoenix. He was born April 24, 1963 in Canton, Ohio.
Matt is survived by five children, Robert, Adam, Megan, Jordan and Faith; two grandchildren, Rohgan and Hadley; his parents, Thomas and Carole Mickley; and eight siblings, Rod, Dean, Brian, Steve, Neal, Dale, Karen and Daryl.
Matt's family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m. Friday, April 8, at Stier-Israel Funeral Home, Louisville, Ohio. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the family to help with expenses c/o Stier-Israel Funeral Home, 917 E. Main St., Louisville, OH 44641.
Re: “The Case of Liberty Cove”
Hi Keith, { having trouble logging in)
Thanks for finally responding to my questions. I found the detail of the title history in your article a bit puzzlii amng.It made me think you have been approached by another person to put this "bad title" info out at this time to serve a purpose that honestly is a bit of a mystery.Was this article your idea or were you paid by someone else with other motives?
The bad title issue should have been brought up years ago by such an experienced journalistic as yourself.One man might still be alive if it was and the rest of suckers would have run the other way.That would have been a good thing.
I am sorry you and the group you worked for didn't consider the power plant issues (along with the bad title) when this thing started.Again,I have camped out there and maybe 2 days a month you would not want to be near the site.Add the possibility of tankers full of smelly,explosive cargo(known at the time but planned to be importing rather than export of NG) and the question (whythe fuck here?) sort of screams out for the placement of this rich guy resort.
I am afraid and hopeful for the road from Sasabe to open up the Sonoran Coast.What I don't want is a secret deal that will make the NG pipeline right of way the future route of a oil pipeline that could pollute the Sea of Cortez. i just want to here from you that extraction interests played no part in your freelance article.
Re: “The Case of Liberty Cove”
Mr. Kelly (since we have yet to have the pleasure).
It's the digression from civility of conversation that makes me run from these threads. I address only language to me:
1) "The timing of your article raises questions."
2) "Keith.....The bad title issue is being brought up by you at this time for some reason but anyone doing a project of this size in Mexico would have seen red flags...if they really intended it to work.."
3) "I just wonder what your motives are for writing this story at this time?"
4) "Your employer was ....."
The language denigrates and lessens the serious of the dialog.
Response, point-by-point:
1) What raises questions about the timing of the publication? The fact that I wrote it over a year? That it came out at New Year's? What are you talking about?
2) Why is it any different if I bring up the bad title issue today as opposed to a year ago? Or four? There are imperfect titles all over the country and, if I search far enough back, I'll find them at the ones to which you've alluded. The story happened to come out "at this time." What's your contention?
3) Instead of casting aspersions ("I just wonder..."), why don't you ask me? Or come by (801 South Erin, 85711). Or call me at home (520) 514-0402. I am in the phone book.
4) I am a freelance journalist and occasionally do projects to raise 6 kids and pay child support. What's this "your employer" stuff? Am I now tainted in an obviously pristine mind because I took a freelance (contract) job? Tell me from whence your income emerges and I promise you a field-day of defending equally denigrating guilt-by-association accusations. Take apart my arguments with your intellect; spare the cheapness of implication/insinuation.
Re: “The Case of Liberty Cove”
As Jerry McQuire said, "Show me the money!"
How do you raise 21 million, pay 10% commissions and the over three years squander the rest? Where did it go? Not a spade of dirt was turned. Where are the books that would prove the movement of monies of which zero, nada, zippo, zilch went for construction?
The last I heard about the Liberty Cove "Books", when the Scottsdale Office closed its doors all documents were placed in a mini-storegae but .... gosh, gee, the Keystone threesome forgot to pay the mini-storage rent so according to them the Storage Company tossed everything into the trash. This reads like a cheesy Harlequin Novel.
Checks were written, check with those Banks, find the paper trail. At least find out what the Marx brothers did with nearly 18 million.
But alas, as before people are still debating if there are any 4 Star Hotel accommodations in Puerto Libertad, environmental issues over pipelines and the shade of blue of the Sea Of Cortez.
Re: “The Case of Liberty Cove”
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1064591-pr… this article explains the boom about to come to the USA. The boom may be part of what is happening in Liberty Cove/Puerto Libertad...A secret plot to get a oil terminal on the Sea of Cortez via Arizona (crony capitalism headquarters) and risk killing our Sea to save a few bucks shipping out of Cali or Texas.Liberty Cove (another iffy deal itself) is in the way and current owners need to be suckered out of there share.This is like Chinatown or a Gresham novel.We already have one unexplained suicide and if i die in a car wreck check me for hypo marks to the neck!
Re: “The Case of Liberty Cove”
http://www.insidetucsonbusiness.com/news/m… Keith's Story with my comment at the time.
Keith,this wasn't a wildcat developer hoping for the best.The bad title issue is being brought up by you at this time for some reason but anyone doing a project of this size in Mexico would have seen red flags...if they really intended it to work..I just wonder what your motives are for writing this story at this time?Your employer was planning to build a city under as you wrote this summer " a steady plume of black smoke over the Sea of Cortez." I have camped out there and been hit by that cloud when the wind changes and a low front leaves it just stitting on the shore line..it is bad.The coast is full of better places for tourists to kick back.
I think the NG line is a good thing.The oil line that will follow as our supplies increase in the next 20 years and our choice of what to do with it becomes a opportunity and an issue (build more refineries/fertilizer/products derived from oil facilities in the states or just sell it overseas as crude and avoid the pollution) Either way putting a fancy pants development in the bullseye of a extraction industry hot spot,a drug war hot spot,a gold mining (think blasting) neighbor,a smelly but interesting algae to Biofuel plant (another possible scam) just seems wack.
Re: “The Case of Liberty Cove”
The thread (above) has zig-zagged in so many directions that it's hard to maintain the focus of the original argument. Still, I'm glad the natural gas issue has arisen because I've been writing about it for Inside Tucson Business and I profit from hearing perspectives. First, as to Liberty Cove and the title issue: Mexicans are accustomed to imperfections in title. They, along with much of the world, don't have the sophistication/certainty of unclouded titles. Moreover, they don't have a sophisticated title-security industry, as we do. If there is one area where I blame Rockingham and investors equally, it is in not having distinguished properly between what title insurance means in the two nations. (In the US, it covers land and improvements. In Mexico, it coves land.) This ambiguity/misunderstanding benefited Rockingham in the same way that the phrase "notario público" benefits American notary publics who are assigned by Mexicans the same credibility as a notario público in their home country. Cognates are a dangerous thing. Back to the natural gas: Mexico and Kinder Morgan have been handling the promotion of their project in a guarded fashion instead of unabashedly and un-apologetically asserting that it's the right thing to do --- for both countries. The level of misunderstandings at the public hearings (Sasabe, Tucson) is remarkable.
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Re: “Background Noise”
The Feds could just "ALLOW" private citizens to access the same system that Licensed Dealers have to now, problem solved. All it does anyway is create a paper trail to trace the gun, "AFTER" a crime, the Feds do not go after the people who fail the Background Checks, IE " A Felon trying to buy a gun".