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06. Ten Questions with Leroy Shingoitewa
06. Native American Church Under Fire
08. Ponderosa Pines, the Peaks Grounsel, & the Smoking Gun
10. Sustainability in Our Generation
10. Proposition Flashcards! 12. Film!
13. It’s the Arts
22. Jerome ArtBeat
24. Music for the Masses
29. Circles: Writing with Mary Sojourner
30. MisAdventures of Miss Rose 30. Green Gold
31. Supplement Calendar
33. Letters to NEd
33. Strangeology
34. La Otra Arizona
35. Christopher Lane’s Poet’s Corner 35. Question Man
36. Prescott’s Don’t Miss List
38. Old Town
Semi di Semplice Edition
November 2012 • #138
Editorial Board:
Clair Anna Rose, Ellen Jo Roberts Kyle Boggs, Sarah Gianelli Bobby Carlson, Joe Grumbo Cindy Cole
Contributors:
Tony Ballz
Logan Phillips
Jodi Johnson
Sarah Irani
Angie Johnson-Schmit Bob Reynolds
Jon Jensen
Wes Ozier
Annabel Sclippa, ThunderfooT Aaron Levy, Matt Larrimore
Publisher: Charles Seiverd
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A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
With the soundbites of election season whistling through the autumnal air, we are all ready for the winds of change. Whether it be through the election of a President, the approval of State Propositions, or the way we view community controversies, it all boils down to the citizen as not only the decider, but the initiator of that change.
As debates and campaigns fade with the winter sun, what may remain is a vested re- gard for the possibility of human evolution. Instead of a top-down approach to our na- tion’s spending, one astute reader has sug- gested “why not a bubble-up approach?” with yet another reader exclaiming: “We’re too small to fail!”
Indeed, with $711 billion allocated every year to keep the military-industrial com- plex alive — a phrase disguising the stock- piling of devices to cease life as we know it
— other areas of our national budget, which presumably aim to sustain life, are slashed or discredited. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts & Sciences, the Department of Health, even our own beleaguered Forest
Service — are forced to lease back our National Heritage for the sake of a few chair- men of the board, who are already stockpiled with banknotes.
It’s time to give back, and give thanks, and make way for the resurgence of com-
munity and the wisdom of the people.
Here’s to fun post-election ballot origami!
Charles Seiverd
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