Daniel's News & Views

• Gone hunting

  White tailed deer (male).
  
  TUCSON -- We had a good Thanksgiving.
  
  I'm gone hunting early Fri AM on our annual Arizona fall deer hunt.
  
  Go Arizona, beat ASU Saturday in football. Bear Down, Wildcats!' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 8:58pm EST
  

• AZ legislature finishes 4th special session of 2009

  Tough days at the Capitol.
  
  UPDATE, Nov 25: Arizona Daily Star agrees with me: locals best for Tucson's Rio Nuevo board.
  
  UPDATE: House Democratic news release: GOP votes to cut millions more from schoolchildren, families during crisis.
  
  PHOENIX -- The AZ' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:50pm EST
  

• Congress must ensure unemployment benefits deal

  People in unemployment line at DES office in Tucson.
  
  TUCSON -- I've asked our US Reps from SoAZ to ensure Arizonans will qualify fully for needed extended unemployment benefits.
  
  From Phoenix NBC 12 News, Nov 19: The jobless benefits extension that Congress passed and' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:43am EST
  

• AZ House Dems urge balanced budget plan

  AZ House Dems continue to push for real solutions.
  
  Thu. Nov 19: Updates @RepPatterson on twitter and facebook.
  
  PHOENIX -- Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Glendale) isn’t making good on her promise to protect education and the most vulnerable during the special session, but [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:13pm EST
  

• Leg. special session starts Tue; down on the border

  Arizona House of Representatives building, Phoenix.
  
  TUCSON -- I'll be at the Capitol in Phoenix as part of the 4th AZ legislature special session of 2009 starting Tuesday. We need some fair bipartisan agreements for the common good, but I'm not optimistic the GOP majority [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:07pm EST
  

• Considering AZ legislative special session & beyond

  Arizona State Capitol, PHX
  
  TUCSON -- As I'm considering the likely Nov 18 legislative special session and the bills we'll probably vote on -- agency 'fix', Science Foundation AZ $18.5M funding, $500M 'cut only' budget change -- I also think of the frustrating bad situation [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:59pm EST
  

• Tucson thanks veterans for service and sacrifice

  Veterans Day Parade in Tucson.
  
  TUCSON -- Thank you, veterans & families!
  
  We'll be at Tucson Veterans Day events to respect & honor vets who've served and sacrificed in the armed forces.
  
  As a State Representative who serves on the Arizona House [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:46am EST
  

• Nov 10 remember Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck

  WHITEFISH BAY MI -- I was born & raised in the Great Lakes and I remember the giant storm of Nov 10, 1975, and the wreck of ship Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior, 29 sailors dead.
  
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:42pm EST
  

• America's Mexico Wall 20 years after Berlin's falls

  America's Mexico Wall
  
  TUCSON -- I remember the historic days when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. I was 18. It was great.
  
  America and the world are celebrating the fall of the wall 20 years ago.
  
  But in recent years the US' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:39pm EST
  

• EPA orders experts to remove private climate video

  Obama's EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
  
  WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered two of its experts to remove a video they posted on YouTube about problems with climate change legislation backed by the Obama administration or face "disciplinary action", according to [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:20am EST
  

• Follow RepPatterson on twitter and facebook

  Get news & views also on twitter.
  
  TUCSON -- As I have busy days sometimes I release more information faster on twitter and facebook.
  
  The latest: RepPatterson Sounds likely 4th special session of 09 @ AZ Legislature [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:43pm EST
  

• Celebrating 11/4 historic date of change election

  President Obama & Rep. Patterson, Arizona, Feb 09.
  
  TUCSON -- This evening my family and I celebrated 11/4, the anniversary of my election to the Arizona State House, and also of Barack Obama as US President 1 year ago in 2008. We had a good [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:15pm EST
  

• Rs may rush 4th special session to cut $500M more

  How will Speaker Adams try to run special session?
  
  PHOENIX -- Word is getting around that Gov. Jan Brewer (R) will likely call legislators back for a 4th special session of the 49th Arizona Legislature on or around Nov 17.
  
  A Republican legislator told [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:12pm EST
  

• GOP's one-sided ad hoc committees harm Arizona

  Freshman GOP Sen. Sylvia 'the earth is only 6000 years old' Allen is busy on bad ad hoc committees.
  
  PHOENIX -- Arizona's legislative Republicans, who currently control and mismanage the agenda at the legislature, have formed several 'ad hoc committees' during the off season at' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:02am EST
  

• Brewer continues to brown down AZ Gov's office

  Brewer sounds like Palin: 'Drill, baby, drill!'
  
  FLAGSTAFF AZ -- Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Glendale) continued her anti-conservation record today with opposition to protecting the Grand Canyon National Park region from uranium mining.
  
  Many Arizona lawmakers want Grand Canyon area public lands protected and are [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:46pm EST