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    <author><![CDATA[on the money]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Really now Jonathan thinks that all university received grants are cut from the same source, have the same use and reporting requirements, are not done in conjunction with other organizations or institutions and/or is the lead on every single grant which actually 'allows' 20% skimming for overhead? This guy doesn't know what he is talking about I am so appalled I can't even address this post to him directly.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:21:37 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[If the weekly wants to provide alternate viewpoints they would do better with giving access to non-extremists. Unless the point is just to point out the absurdity of the "non squishy" republican viewpoint.
        
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      <![CDATA[Now that the "squishy" Republicans are gone from Arizona politics, I wonder who conservatives will blame next for Arizona's increased deficits, taxes, and tuition and the reductions in services that we are already experiencing?<br>
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Perhaps it's time to rename the conservatives the "Pirate Party," since their motto seems to be "Take what you can, give nothing back."
        
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      <![CDATA[Yes,  the University charges 1/3 of some grants, value varies based on the contract and grant language,  for what are called indirect costs. These indirect costs include the staff needed to properly and legally execute those grants, to make sure accounting rules are followed.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[devmonkey]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["squishy Republicans" eh? And Hoffman doesn't blame the republicans for being squishy, he blames the democrats.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm so sick of both parties blaming one another, shut-up! If Republicans in our senate are so weak minded that Janet Napolitano was able to sway them so easily, maybe Arizonans should vote for individuals with spines.
        
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      <![CDATA[Thank you TM for your comment. It is true that research grant funds are restricted, it is also true that the university skims a percentage off the top of those grants for overhead.
        
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      <![CDATA["Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other.
        
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      <![CDATA[Yes the republickers are very good with fuzzy math. It just shows you what education can do for you.
        
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      <![CDATA[What an ignorant person Mr. Hoffman is in this article! Love the political rhetoric which has not basis in facts, but very much what is wrong with our country; hate and apathetic mongering.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:28:20 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Thank gawd we can finally stop all that wasted spending on education and social programs like health care! Thank gawd for the Republicans!
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:46:11 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Fiona Mackenzie]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Arizona is the laughingstock of the nation, both for its bizarrely unconstitutional laws that serve no purpose except to spit in the eye of its enemy, the United States, and [not so funny] success in turning the majority of the state into a primitive autocracy, with the burden of sustaining it for the rich being increasingly loaded onto the working poor. <br>
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The very notion of rejecting a 3/4-federally funded organ transplant program while putting a new roof on a stadium that has proven to be an albatross around Arizona's neck, at the expense primarily of people who cannot afford to go there, would be ludicrous if it didn't involve watching students and teachers and parents of young children and people's loved ones die unnecessarily for the amusement of Arizona's rich in its publicly supported Colosseum.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:15:57 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[For those who have already died because the state cut organ transplants from what is covered by AHCCCS, I imagine that their families tears are not 'hysterical' visions of an "apocalyptic future disaster'. I work with people who have received organ transplants and go on to live normal greatly extended lives.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:25:57 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[All our problems are due to the minority Democrats and a few squishy Republicans? Really?
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:41:29 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Pima Mujer]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[It is my understanding that tax credits and tax cuts given by Arizona legislators since 1980 amount to 10-11 billion dollars. Many legislators have taken Grover Norquist's pledge to not raise taxes.
        
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      <![CDATA["Bear in mind that this is the language of a fancy-pants $550,000-a-year university president at an official function."<br>
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Wasn't that a superb performance by our University of Arizona President Robert Shelton at the Memorial Service that up-lifted our city, county, state and country? <br>
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Fancy-pants weren't needed.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:28:16 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Another anti-education rant by a republican. Cut spending for education, keep people uneducated and they will be  more likely to fall for inflammatory, incorrect rhetoric and vote republican...vote republican against their own best interests.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:20:09 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Regarding - "In fiscal year 2007, the UA received $1.211 billion, but $1.266 billion in 2008, $1.305 billion in 2009, and $1.333 billion in 2010." <br>
These total numbers include contracts and grants from federal, state and local governments, private foundation and corporations.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:51:38 -0700</pubDate>
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