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Flight Plans. Southwest is changing some routes starting May 9, 2009. The airline is adding service between Tucson and Denver, and Nashville and Oakland. It's also canceling service between Detroit and Orlando. (See a complete list of changes...
...there going to be an Arrested Development film? Joe Matz, TUCSON, ARIZ...
...state, McCain has powerful allies and former staffers who run much of the GOP establishment, from the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (which used to be run by his son Andy McCain) to the state house and senate, where moderate Republicans like outgoing senate president Tim Bee and Tucson representative Pete Hershberger have been able to push through much of their agenda by working with Democrats...
...thievery is fueled in part by the conservation effort itself. "International rules aimed at preventing the movement of plants and seeds in order to protect them have had unintended consequences," says Dick Wiedhopf, president of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America and its Tucson chapter. "They have made [cactuses] more valuable." That explains why wildlife - including cactus - ranks just below drugs and guns as the most popular good smuggled out of Mexico, according to experts...
...cannot move any cactus from its natural habitat without a license from the Department of Agriculture - and all legally moved or sold cactuses, even the tiny souvenir plants sold at the Phoenix airport, come with an official tag. So, conservationists have stepped in with an everybody-wins plan: the Tucson Cactus Society's internationally recognized rescue program seeks permission to harvest plants at development and mining sites, tag and sell them - the money raised goes into teaching grants aimed at raising cactus awareness in local schools...