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In The Political Ring with Tommy Acosta:
Is Justice Blind?

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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

By Tommy Acosta
(May 7, 2013) 

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The reason it is taking the Jodi Arias jury so long to come to a verdict is there is so much conviction on the part of the juror’s themselves on what they believe happened the day Travis got killed. They are not willing to bend their principles. There is a faction that wants her dead and a faction that has reasonable doubt that are willing to stand by what they believe is right, no matter the pressure. Those seeking the death penalty will settle for nothing less than Murder 1. The “beyond–reasonable-doubters “will not agree to anything more than Murder 2. There is an impasse. The jurors are committed to doing what is right. Those who want a Murder 1 conviction know in their hearts she did it. Those who believe not enough evidence was presented to warrant a beyond-reasonable-doubt guilty verdict, will not in good conscience convict her of a crime that could lead to her execution.

Perhaps there is a piece of the puzzle missing. Something both the defense and prosecution missed.

Let’s look at an alternate theory as to what may have transpired in the moments leading to Travis’s death. Read More→


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In the Political Ring with Tommy Acosta: Bombs Snuff Gun Debate

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Thursday, April 18th, 2013

By Tommy Acosta
April 18, 2013

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The Boston Massacre of April 15 blew the gun control debate out of the race.

The bill lost its legs in Congress.

No rifle or handgun could match the bang of an IED.

Kids going crazy in schools and killing other kids is one thing.

An explosive device placed where it can do the most damage is another. Read More→


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Celebrating the Life of Buffalo Don Thompson

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Friday, April 5th, 2013

By Tommy Acosta

Sedona AZ (April 6, 2013) – A true American hero has passed away and taken his place with the stars above where his memory will shine forever.

On the morning of March 29, 2013, America lost one of its most colorful luminaries and icons.

Buffalo Don Thompson, a world-famous war hero, businessman and owner of Buffalo Don’s Corral in Sedona, passed peacefully in his sleep.

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In the Political Ring with Tommy Acosta: Death Waits In North Korea

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Thursday, April 4th, 2013

photo_tommyacostaBy Tommy Acosta
(April 4, 2013)

Pray, America.

Pray the conflict in the Korean Peninsula does not break into an all-out-war because this one will be quite different than the war on terror our country has been waging for the last decade plus.

We are not invading a prehistoric nation like Iraq whose military was supplied by the very country that invaded it, allowing us to bomb them into submission and wipe out whatever real resistance they had before our soldiers set their boots upon their land. Read More→


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Let’s Get Cosmic

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Friday, March 8th, 2013

By Tommy Acosta
(March 8, 2013)

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There is something happening out there and we can’t deny it any longer. Too many comets and asteroids are appearing out of nowhere almost daily. There was a meteor explosion in Russia. A giant asteroid just misses us on a cosmic scale and now three- recently discovered comets are buzzing or about to buzz the earth. It’s time for a closer look.

Basically, asteroids are broken rocks of different sizes that orbit the sun at various angles.

Meteors are smaller pieces of rock or metal orbiting the sun that sometimes enter earth’s atmosphere when orbits intersect. Read More→


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In the Political Ring With Tommy Acosta

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Monday, February 25th, 2013

50 Shades of Jodi

photo_tommyacostaBy Tommy Acosta
(February 25, 2013)

Sometimes we are like surfers waiting for the right wave to ride. Bobbing up and down in an ocean of news, we hope a big one will come along.

We finally got one. A really big one and it’s time to ride again.

No. It’s not the stupid sequester scare because just like the fiscal cliff hoopla, it will never come to be.

No, it’s not the gun ban fight because it has degraded into trench warfare now and it will drag on and become boring as more and more people become immune to gun violence news. Read More→


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In The Political Ring with Tommy Acosta

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Friday, January 25th, 2013

Why does a person need an AR15 Anyway?

photo_tommyacostaBy Tommy Acosta
(January 25, 2013)

This is the question CNN’s Piers Morgan keeps asking over and over again but no one gives him a satisfactory answer.

The reason for this is the question requires two distinct answers because it’s really two questions in one.

There is the “need” a person has to possess such a weapon; the desire to own one that is.

And there is the question of whether an automatic weapon is “needed” to defend oneself. Read More→


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In The Political Ring with Tommy Acosta

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Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Guns Don’t Kill: Bullets Do!

photo_tommyacostaBy Tommy Acosta
(January 12, 2013) 

Let’s talk about guns.

For those who grew up in the Bronx, other high-crime areas or states like Arizona, guns are no big deal, legal or not. You just got to assume everyone else is packing heat and that’s just the way it is.

Be careful who you mess with. Be alert at all times. You understand there is no way anyone can stop anyone from getting a gun if they want it. If the bad guys can illegally get guns anytime they want to then the good guys should have the ability to do it legally. Might as well all be on a level playing field. Read More→


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In the Political Ring with Tommy Acosta

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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013

‘Rope a Dope’: How Obama Won the Debates

photo_tommyacostaBy Tommy Acosta

For aficionados who love a good fight in the political or the boxing ring this article is a treat.

Wrapping up last year’s political highlights, cable-network talking heads spent a lot of time over the holiday dissecting the three presidential debates in the election.

The battle between Romney and Obama was a study in tenacity, technique, timing and delivery. It was a great fight and one that will be analyzed for years to come. Read More→


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In The Political Ring with Tommy Acosta

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Saturday, December 29th, 2012

Entitlements: Six of These – Half a Dozen of the Other – The Business of Welfare

photo_tommyacostaBy Tommy Acosta
(December 29, 2012)

Fiscal conservatives rile against entitlements, wailing our tax dollars are keeping a welfare state in business; people receiving “gifts” from the public-treasure trove don’t deserve it; are on the dole; need to find jobs and contribute rather than take.

They say our Medicare and Social Security entitlement programs must be overhauled and trimmed in order to survive. Read More→


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In The Political Ring with Tommy Acosta

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Sunday, December 23rd, 2012

Fiscal Cliff or Fiscal Stoop?

photo_tommy_acostaBy Tommy Acosta
(December 23, 2012)

The media frenzy over the looming Fiscal Cliff and panic over its consequences has nothing to do with reality.

Get over it. Nothing worse than raised taxes on everyone can happen! Does anyone really think Washington is going to let that occur?

Perhaps we’ll suffer a scraped economic knee but no 300-foot straight-down-drop to a waiting shoreline of jagged rocks as the media keeps threatening and predicting. Read More→


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Medical Marijuana Evaluation Clinic Opens in Sedona

By Sedona.biz Staff
Saturday, September 15th, 2012

By Tommy Acosta

Sedona AZ (September 15, 2012) – For those suffering from disease-related symptoms that have not responded to conventional medical treatment, hope for relief is on the way.

A doctor-staffed medical marijuana evaluation clinic and wellness center has opened for business at 1370 West State Route 89A, Ste. 13, directly across from the Martini Bar Patio stage in West Sedona.

 Arizona Voters approved the use and distribution of medical marijuana through Proposition 203 in the November 2010 elections by a small margin.

What this means for those with certain medical conditions, is that individuals diagnosed with Cancer, Glaucoma, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Hepatitis C, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS),  Crohn’s disease, Agitation of Alzheimer’s disease: a chronic or debilitating disease, medical condition or the treatment that causes Cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe and chronic pain; severe nausea; seizures, including those characteristic of epilepsy; severe or persistent muscle spasms, including those characteristic of multiple sclerosis may qualify for a state-issued Medical Marijuana certification card that allows patients to legally grow, posses and ingest cannabis products that may ease their symptoms.

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When You’re Wrong, You’re Wrong

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Friday, September 7th, 2012

Seeing the Lights

By Tommy Acosta
Sedona AZ (September 7, 2012)  

One of the things I hate the most doing is admitting I was wrong. Ugh! Such a distasteful thing to do for us journalists who believe we are always right to have to do…

But I was wrong about the lights for 89A in West Sedona and it is time to admit it.

I believed like so many others that putting those lights in during the Spring, Summer and Fall seasons would wreak havoc with our local businesses. Read More→


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Sedona’s Timeless Beauty

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Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

By Joey Best
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Sedona AZ (August 2, 2012) – Sedona, a land of timeless beauty, is surrounded by magnificent, natural red rock sculptures and pristine National Forests.

Standing about 4,300 feet above sea level, Sedona is centrally located less than two hours north of Phoenix and just two hours south of the Grand Canyon.

Perhaps one of the most spectacular secrets of the world, Sedona enchants millions of visitors and native Arizonans each year. Read More→


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Suckled On Violence

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Thursday, July 26th, 2012

By Tommy Acosta

Sedona AZ (July 26, 2012) – With the Batman Massacre firmly at the forefront of our country’s consciousness we have to look back at our own childhood to understand the root of the violence we have all so grown accustomed to and the why of that latest tragedy holding our national attention.

From the moment we are old enough to process sight and sound we are “breast fed” on violence.

It begins with the cartoons we watch as a child, the hitting, smashing, chasing, punching;  the harm they do to each other, physical and psychological, from which they rebound always unscratched to fight and chase another day. Read More→


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City Must Prepare for Lights Construction Tsunami

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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Opinion by Tommy Acosta

Sedona AZ (February 14, 2012) – The die is cast. The fight was won. The lights are on. The deed is done.

There are always unintended consequences to every conquest and in the aftermath of the ADOT victory in the S.R. 89A lighting battle it will be the businesses in West Sedona that will pay the price.

Sales tax receipts don’t lie and in the recent dismal showing of sales-tax collections, a sad tale is told.

This is one of woe and hardship for the small-business people that make their living in stores along the 89A corridor and for the city that depends on those sales. Read More→


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Vote Yes on Prop 410: It’s a Win-Win for Sedona

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Sunday, October 30th, 2011

 There Are No Guarantees in Life or in Sedona

By Tommy Acosta

Sedona, AZ (October 30, 2011) – This editorial is not for those who have made up their minds and voted early on the 89A referendum but for those who are against the lights but fear the cost of assuming responsibility over the scenic route will be too much for Sedona; for those who have yet to cast their vote.

Sometimes knowing what to do can be harder than finding a snowflake of truth in a blizzard of lies, especially when facts are turned inside out and deception rules the day.

Whether we take over 89A or not, there is no guarantee ADOT will come to the bargaining table with the same offer as before. They may give us more. They may give us less. They may even force us to take 89A without a monetary carrot attached.

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Rita Livingston Sedona’s Shining Light

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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Dedicated Her life and Her Resources to Protecting and Enhancing Sedona

By Tommy Acosta

Sedona, AZ (October 18, 2011) – Sedona is home for many people who give selflessly and are driven by a sense of community responsibility so profound that they go way beyond the call of duty and give everything they have towards making the world a better place.

One such individual is Sedona’s own Rita Livingston, who dedicated her life and her resources to protecting and enhancing Sedona and maintaining the quality of life we all enjoy. Read More→


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