Gilbert’s Congress of Neighborhoods gathers for the eighth year Saturday — this time to review how residents would rewrite covenants, conditions and restrictions that govern homeowners associations.

Downtown Mesa will become home to the Barry and Peggy Goldwater Library and Archives under a formal announcement made Wednesday by the Goldwater family and city officials.

WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress can force the nation's public libraries to equip computers with anti-pornography filters.

Librarians have come a long way, baby.

WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress can force the nation's public libraries to equip computers with anti-pornography filters.

A chimney fire in the U.S. Capitol the morning before Christmas in 1851 destroyed much of what was then the Library of Congress, including about two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson’s book collection.

Marissa Meier, an eighth-grader from Gilbert's Bios Christian Academy has been chosen as one of six national winners out of 55,000 entries in the annual Letters About Literature contest.

Acclaimed jazz musicians Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellway recreate their famous 2010 Library of Congress concert for Valley jazz lovers.

The Congress of Neighborhoods and Gilbert’s Neighborhood Services department will host a new resident social 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. July 16 at the Southeast Regional Library, 775 N. Greenfield Road.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law Monday requiring libraries that receive federal funds — including those in Mesa and Phoenix — to electronically filter adult content from Internet-accessible computers.

WASHINGTON - Advocates of rewriting the USA Patriot Act are claiming momentum after the House, despite a White House veto threat, voted to restrict investigators from using the anti-terrorism law to peek at library records and bookstore sales slips.

I’m really getting tired of reading columnists who invoke the principles of the Founding Fathers as their touchstone, e.g. Linda Turley-Hansen, Oct. 13, 2012. Just which Founding Father is she referring to — Alexander Hamilton, who thought state governors should be appointed by Congress; James Madison, who didn’t think the Constitution needed a Bill of Rightsl; or Patrick Henry, who said he “smelt a rat” when asked why he declined to attend the Constitutional Convention?

Gilbert will hold a new resident social 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. July 18 at the Southeast Regional Library, 775 N. Greenfield Road (at the southeast corner of Greenfield and Guadalpue roads).

Gilbert officials envision the Williams Gateway Airport region as a future hub of activity: A college campus of at least 35,000 students. Night life. Industry. Jobs.

When the Patriot Act was passed in the first hectic weeks after 9/11, Congress, perhaps conscious of its haste, "sunseted" large parts of the law, meaning those provisions would automatically expire in five years unless Congress renewed them.

The Patriot Act was passed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and as parts are up for renewal today the act'its backers will be unable to avail themselves of the argument that its critics were, if not actually abetting terrorism, at least tying the president's hands in the fight. It was nonsense, of course, but they were emotional times.

Everyone has a story to tell, and you can record yours for posterity beginning on Valentine’s Day in Phoenix.

If Attorney General John Ashcroft really wants to defend the USA Patriot Act, he might want to start treating seriously the objections raised by the law's critics.

BOSTON — Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been named this year's recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award for her advocacy on reducing gun violence.

April 5, 2005