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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Packing for the Airport (A Continuing Series)

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No comment really needed about this week's TSA tally of guns found at airport checkpoints, except to point out that the average number...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

"Visit Tucson" Ad Seems to Extol Putting Graffiti on Saguaros

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Actual graffiti vandalism at Saguaro National Park (my photos) Well, you do get what you pay for. But really, someone ought to b...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Packing for the Airport (Latest in an Evidently Interminable Series)

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Today's report from the Transportation Security Administration on the number of our fellow citizens who try to take guns through airp...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Too Damn Much Local TV 'News,' But Gannett Is Watching

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Media watchers are scratching their heads today over news that the Gannett company is buying a company called Belo -- which owns 20 local TV...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Too Damn Much Local 'News'

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A local TV station here in Tucson, a town that, to its credit, not much really happens in, airs eight hours of local news a day. The other s...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Air Travel Mess Ahead in Paris May Spread Through Europe

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This is the notice currently posted on the Airports of Paris Web site, regarding flights at all three Paris-area airports starting tomorr...
Sunday, June 09, 2013

Duck Walk

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I enjoyed the traditional March of the Ducks the other day while staying at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando. Nice hotel, nice touch (importe...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Saguaro National Park Vandalism: This Time, the Rangers Spin the Press to Lay Blame on 'Social Media'

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For a journalist, it can be useful, if extremely distasteful, to find yourself on the other side of a story -- and the Saga of the Saguar...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

More Vandalism at Saguaro National Park; This Time, the Rangers Respond to Media

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My photos of graffiti vandalism two weeks ago at Saguaro National Park More vandalism of cactuses was reported at Saguaro National...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

A Federal Agency Fires a Reporter for 'Approaching the Media'

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One of the photos I took on Sunday of graffiti vandalism at Saguaro National Park Here's a sad update on that awful graffiti vand...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Vandalism At Saguaro National Park

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More than 15 saguaro cactuses were defaced by vandalism at Saguaro National Park in Tucson I What's "Soma?" See bel...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Guns At the Airports (Continued)

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Guns found at T.S.A. checkpoints this week Ho-hum, another week, another haul of handguns that our fellow citizens insist on trying to ...
Saturday, May 04, 2013

Cruise News

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Another good reason for me to maintain my record of never having taken a cruise, or considered the idea: Argentina has been accused in Bri...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

US Airways Raises Fee for Changing Flights, Matching United Move

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US Airways has raised the penalty fee for changing most restricted coach tickets from $150 to $200,  just as United Airlines did last week. ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Hysteria in the Hub

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The main headline on the Boston Globe Web site on Saturday was this, "Let the Healing Begin ... Hub Moves Forward." The issue...

Most of Us in USA Still Alive, Excluding Al Neuharth

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I had a couple of encounters with the legendary Gannett corporate pirate and USA Today founder Al Neuharth over the years, but my favorit...
Monday, April 22, 2013

TSA Caves on Small Pocketknives

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TSA Announcement in March. Uh ... never mind A coalition representing flight attendants unions is hailing a decision by the T.S.A. to ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

American Airlines Flights Grounded Today

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UPDATED If you were flying or scheduled to fly American Airlines this afternoon you already know this, but: American grounded all of its...

Perspective and Proportion in Security

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Hysteria always follows a terrorist attack of any sort. Proportion can get lost in crowd-induced (and media-induced) panic.   In my op...

Security in Boston?

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Boston media sometimes hilariously refer to that city as the "Hub," as if it had a universal importance far in excess of its actua...
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Joe Sharkey's work appears in major national and international publications. For 19 years until 2015 he was a weekly columnist for the New York Times. He is now a weekly travel and entertainment columnist with the global website Travel.Buzz, as well as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, He has written five books, four non-fiction and a novel, one of which is in development as a movie. Previously, he was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer. On Sept. 29, 2006, he was one of seven people on a business jet who survived a mid-air collision with a 737 over the Amazon. All 154 on the 737 died. His report on the crash appeared on the front page of the New York Times and later in the Sunday Times of London magazine. He and his wife Nancy (who is a professor of journalism at the University of Arizona) live in Tucson with horses and parrots. He is working on a new novel about an international travel writer who hates to travel. "JoeSharkey.com" is Copyright (c) 2006-2015 by Joe Sharkey.
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