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When El Con (the hotel) was mighty

Freelance SMITH COLUMN All it takes is a memory with a half-century sleeve-length, and you, too, can recollect the grandeur that was El Con before El Con was El Con. If your historic reach is...

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Freedom hits a red light

Freelance SMITH COLUMN JEFF SMITH letters@tucsoncitizen.com We’re on a slippery slope here, amigos, and you know what happens when you’re on a slippery slope? You begin sliding downward, faster and...

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Earth’s thin skin

Freelance SMITH COLUMN My old dump is kindly disappointing from the air. I gaze out across the creek and canyon bottom to the ridge rising up to divvy Adobe Canyon from Wood Canyon and congratulate...

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Think globally; shop locally

Freelance SMITH COLUMN Jeff Smith Unless you have just sunk into your Bark-a-lounger and put your feet up to ease the swelling from a double shift in the retail wars, or you are scanning the editorial...

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Every brick in the book

Citizen Staff Writer First you need to know what a brick is. There is confusion over definitions because our own Tucson Police Department has been using two meanings of the word. In a recent Tucson...

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PHARMA-KILLERS Inexpensive, generic AIDS drugs no longer an option for many...

Freelance SMITH COLUMN The giants of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States of America are committing mass murder, selective genocide, remote-control homicide on a monstrous scale. But what the...

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Look southward for angels At Christmastime, his heart – and his money – end...

SMITH COLUMN If you’re looking to make the Christmas dollar go further – whether your gift list includes a life-size skeleton carved out of palm wood, or a lifetime supply of human growth hormone – get...

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Generic, politically generated horse effluvium should be banished

Freelance SMITH COLUMN Jeff Smith It’s OK to be a Jew. And if you’re black and proud, say it loud. It’s even acceptable (PC buzzword) under appropriate (ibid) circumstances to be a Christian – both the...

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The unkindest cut

Freelance SMITH COLUMN Editor’s note: This is Jeff Smith’s final column for the Tucson Citizen. It is among features that are being cut under budget constraints for 2008. T alk about your post-...

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Recalling our heyday, when we were locally owned

THE FINAL EDITION JEFF SMITH Once upon a town there was a time when folks around there had a pretty good idea what was up. The town was Tucson and the time was the tail end of the 19th century through...

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