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By JOE SHARKEY

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Disturbing News on Drones

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There are two important stories about attack drones in the two newspapers I read today. One's a major piece, fully reported out, in the ...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Republicans to Nice German Couple I Met Today: Drop Dead!

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The closing of Saguaro National Park is neighborhood news where I live, adjacent to the park, on the east side of Tucson. Everything...
Friday, September 27, 2013

The Rolling Coup d'Etat

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I think Jonathan Chait has it about right in this analysis of the latest ugly Washington showdown, which he refers to as a kind of "sof...

New Global Travel Alert

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There's often some justifiable criticism of the State Department's sometimes sweeping travel warnings and alerts for being somewhat ...
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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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