Arizona needs to go green in November
If I told you that you could spend a minimum of four months of incarceration for possession of plant matter, would you look at me like I was crazy?
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If I told you that you could spend a minimum of four months of incarceration for possession of plant matter, would you look at me like I was crazy?
The swimming pool on the roof of the Sun Devil Fitness Center downtown, as seen on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016
The basketball court at the Sun Devil Fitness Center downtown as seen on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.
The running track at the Sun Devil Fitness Center downtown is seen on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.
Every four years the world comes together for two short weeks to celebrate the spirit of competition and national pride. It’s a time where all of us can try to forget wars, terrorism, diseases and other scary buzzwords that bombard us without mercy on a daily basis. However, it’s hard to focus on the games when swimmers can’t safely swim in the water, or the economy of the host city is in literal free fall.
I think it’s horrifying that if I lived in some counties in the U.S. I wouldn’t be able to purchase a bottle of alcohol at the local supermarket. I’d have to drive to another county to do that, because where I’d live would be known as a “dry” county.
Public mass transit, as convenient and amazing as it can be, is an eye-opening experience. On New Year’s Eve, some friends and I took the light rail from midtown Phoenix to the big block party on Mill. It was a free ride that night, an effort to lower the number of drunk drivers.
In the world of sports, nothing is more important than tradition. Teammates often won’t acknowledge a rookie’s first home run. The Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always play at home on Thanksgiving, and the winner of the Masters tournament always gets the green jacket.
Spring has long been revered as a magical time of year. Like the annual coming of the groundhog in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, I too emerge from winter hoping to see the promises of spring. Leaves gain back a vibrant green color, animals wake from months of hibernation and the last patches of snow across the country yield to grass saplings.
Arizona's Presidential Preference Election is being held tomorrow, and voters who registered as Democratic, Republican or Green Party members will be able to participate. Independent voters will not.
How many times have you heard a parent or older sibling tell you something like, "You're so lucky, in my day we used to have to go to the library and read books to research"? Or maybe you've heard about when encyclopedias used to be printed on paper.
In class the other day, I overheard a discussion that takes place daily on any college campus. Grades were the subject. More specifically, the students involved were talking about how they thought they deserved higher grades.
In a lot of ways, I consider myself pretty lucky to be in the situation I’m in. As a veteran, my college tuition is covered 100 percent by the GI Bill. I also get stipends for books, as well as a monthly living allowance. I don’t depend on parental income or student loans to get through school.
I worry that what separates a “terrorist” from an “anti-government activist” is ethnicity and religion. Lately, it seems that if you’re white, you can perform a mass shooting or occupy federal land and be called “mentally unstable.” However, if you happen to be of a different skin color, or you are a religion other than Christian, you may end up with the label of “terrorist.”
Arizona is no stranger to controversial legislation. This year we have House Bill 2072, a proposed amendment to allow the concealed carry of a firearm by anyone possessing a permit on public university and community college campuses.
Senate Bill 1054, introduced by State Senator John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills), would limit the recording of police within 20 feet. As a U.S. citizen who holds his First Amendment rights dearly, I’m horrified. As an aspiring journalist who believes records of public officials working on a public street should be public record, I’m disgusted.
I'm going to channel my inner Bill Nye and ask you to consider the following:
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