I'd like to comment on Tina Dupuy's Feb. 2 commentary ("Government workers are the new illegal aliens") about her idea of what a job is. She has issues with anyone who says government can't create jobs. She states "to those of us who work for a living, a job is a job."

Thousands of state government employees will have July 23 off without pay as the first of 12 planned furlough days.

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Dozens of Palestinian civil servants stormed parliament Wednesday to demand long-overdue salaries, pelting Hamas lawmakers with water bottles and forcing the parliament speaker to flee the building.

May 13, 2005

Seeking to shape the national debate over immigration reform this summer, three Arizona Republicans have reintroduced a guest worker proposal that could lead to permanent residency for 10 million people here illegally.

“I still don’t know what they said to each other,” a Texas nurse told Nurse-Week magazine in 1999 after enlisting a hospital house cleaner to interpret for a patient who could not speak English.

Sometimes, it’s who you know. Pat Gregan was working for a nonprofit agency where she helped others as a case manager and doing job development.

The Pew Center on the States, not known as a conservative thought leader, had some bad news for Arizona recently. Our state pension systems are seriously underwater and sinking fast.

The Pew Center on the States, not known as a conservative thought leader, had some bad news for Arizona recently. Our state pension systems are seriously underwater and sinking fast.

State agencies were scrambling late Tuesday to figure out what services they can and cannot provide Wednesday if lawmakers failed in their overnight attempt to adopt a new budget.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas held coalition talks Monday as it laid the groundwork for forming the first Palestinian government run by the Islamic militant group.

Sunday’s Tribune had the perfect confluence of articles and editorials. Perhaps the best one was the Tribune’s own editorial asking the public what level of government intervention they want. Hopefully people consider this as they grade the newly elected local and federal politicians.

OMAHA, Neb. - Billionaire Warren Buffett spent Saturday praising the decisions U.S. officials made to right the economy in the midst of a "financial hurricane" and defending the ones he made to help his company navigate the storm.

HOUSTON - The fraud and conspiracy trial of Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling is reaching its halfway mark: Seven weeks, 15 prosecution witnesses and more to come.

WASHINGTON - The government will make permanent its changes to a visa program that brings foreign workers to the U.S. for temporary nonagricultural work.

PRESCOTT - Arizona policymakers endorsed a foreign guestworker program as critical to the state’s economic success.

It is startling how much time is being wasted parsing out the motive behind the murder of 51-year-old substitute teacher, Bill Sparkman in tones that seem to indicate that some kind of feeble justification exists out there, somewhere.

A Scottsdale Unified School District administrator who resigned this spring has sued her former employer and Superintendent John Baracy for wrongful termination and fraud.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's election commission announced Monday that officials were investigating "unusually high" numbers of "yes" votes in about a dozen provinces during Iraq's landmark referendum on a new constitution, raising questions about irregularities in the balloting.

A Scottsdale Unified School District administrator who resigned this spring has sued her former employer and Superintendent John Baracy for wrongful termination and fraud.

The Gilbert Unified School District has a new employee — the executive director of the Gilbert Historical Museum — but the historical society is funding her salary.

WASHINGTON - Financial institutions identified as targets of a terrorist plot in three cities opened for business Monday under stepped-up security and defiant words from people who said they won't be cowed by the extraordinary intelligence pointing to a potential attack.

August 2, 2004