There exists an element of overly passionate wrong-thinking individuals, both in the state of Utah and here in Mesa, who have admitted their open hatred for Senate President Russell Pearce as well as SB 1070, which was lawfully passed by the Legislature and is now before the United States Supreme Court. They advance themselves as true enemies of this state.

Regarding the letter to the editor “Board fails to do its duty” on May 25:

For two months, Mesa's Human Relations Advisory Board has played hot potato with the Utah Compact, passing it from one monthly meeting to the next. While the majority of the board claims to support the measure, they have failed to recommend its passage to City Council.

An effort in Mesa to spark a more civil debate on illegal immigration is in danger of fizzling.

SAN LUIS - Military bulldozers, road graders and other heavy equipment rumbled along the Mexican border early Monday as more than 50 National Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to get to work under President Bush's crackdown on illegal immigration.

Letter writer Terrie Johnson (Dec. 18) is mad that a political group with whom she disagrees would call themselves “Patriots.” Johnson apparently has very strong notions of what a patriot can and cannot believe politically.

"Is any man scummier than Charlie Sheen? Wait, we had a President named Clinton that was."

Incoming attorney general Tom Horne has chosen as his first official target in combatting crime in our state the dangerous Mexican-American studies classes in Tucson schools. This would be laughable if it were not part of the larger social tapestry in Arizona. In the recent past, political honchos in Arizona — Pearce’s SB 1070, Arpaio’s crime suppression sweeps — have undertaken efforts that are, in fact, ethnically focused on the Latino community in our state.

Mitt Romney’s stance on immigration is not on the same page as his religion. It should be vividly noted especially here in Arizona, the church neither discriminates against the undocumented nor denies them access to a Mormon temple or to any of the ordinances prescribed for adherents of the LDS faith.

Critics of Arizona's sometimes harsh anti-immigration rhetoric have made Mesa the focus of a countermovement to ease tensions and spark a more moderate form of debate.

Critics of Arizona's sometimes harsh anti-immigration rhetoric have made Mesa the focus of a countermovement to ease tensions and spark a more moderate form of debate.

Critics of Arizona's sometimes harsh anti-immigration rhetoric have made Mesa the focus of a countermovement to ease tensions and spark a more moderate form of debate.

East Valley organizers have formed a group to oppose state Sen. Russell Pearce, hoping to build momentum on a local level for a different approach to immigration and other key issues.

President Obama has taken the step in the right direction. Since Congress has not acted on the Dream Act it is the perfectly right time to make the move to make sure if SB 1070 is found in favor of the State of Arizona, the hard working immigrants will be protected. Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe and Russell Pearce can take their racist stands in a highly-Hispanic populated state and they are all going to lose. The racist but supposedly religious politicians of our state who always want to preach “family values” want to break up families and send perfectly law-abiding kids educated in our schools that have parents paying taxes and contributing to our communities back to Mexico.

East Valley organizers have formed a group to oppose state Sen. Russell Pearce, hoping to build momentum on a local level for a different approach to immigration and other key issues.

East Valley organizers have formed a group to oppose state Sen. Russell Pearce, hoping to build momentum on a local level for a different approach to immigration and other key issues.

SALT LAKE CITY - A Latino activist, pressing the Mormon church to take a stronger stance against enforcement-only immigration bills, recently delivered to the Mexican Consulate here a letter asking that President Felipe Calderon's government suspend visas to Mormon missionaries. Raul Lopez-Vargas, a former vice president the community Centro Civico, hand-delivered the letter signed by more than 130 people.

Charter school executive Jerry Lewis filed petitions Thursday to qualify for the ballot in Legislative District 18 in Mesa.

Charter school executive Jerry Lewis filed petitions Thursday to qualify for the ballot in Legislative District 18 in Mesa.

Charter school executive Jerry Lewis filed petitions Thursday to qualify for the ballot in Legislative District 18 in Mesa.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Addam Swapp, the leader of a small polygamous clan that bombed a Mormon chapel in 1988 and then made a standoff at their Marion ranch that ended in the death of a Corrections officer, has finished his term in an Arizona federal prison and is now serving his Utah state sentence in an Arizona state facility.

SALT LAKE CITY - The world, it seems, was its salad bar.

DENVER - Democratic leaders huddled in Denver on Monday to map out their strategy to help presidential candidate Barack Obama win Colorado and the West in the general election, saying the region could be key to winning the White House.

WASHINGTON – The decades of compacts, laws, contracts and regulatory guidelines that are supposed to manage bordering states’ use of the Colorado River have come to be known collectively as the “Law of the River.”