VOL. 19  ISSUE NO. 3   |   JANUARY 16 – 22, 2013

JANUARY 16, 2013

Sonoran News Cave Creek Council Candidate Forum

January 30, 2013, 7 to 9 p.m.

Agenda
Welcome ..... Don Sorchych;  Candidate Introduction;  Candidate 2-minute presentations …; Questions from the floor (Deliver questions to Don or Shari Jo); 2-minute wrap up by candidates.

Candidates alphabetically
Mayor:  Vincent Francia (unopposed);  Council incumbents:  Shelley V. Anderson, Jim Bruce, Ernie Bunch, Dick Esser, Steve LaMar, Thomas McGuire.  Council challengers:  Mike Durkin, Reg Monachino, Steve Snider, Charles Spitzer, Adam Trenk, Eileen Anne Wright

We hope you will attend. We also thank the Town of Cave Creek for their hospitality in support of the candidates.

BY LINDA BENTLEY  |   JANUARY 9, 2013

Obama could face impeachment for gun control via executive fiat

Stockman said, ‘I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including …
filing articles of impeachment’

OAKLAND, Calf. – Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, held a press conference last week on the first day Alameda County students returned to class from the Christmas break, to introduce Assembly Bill 48, which aims to regulate the sales of ammunition in much the same way California, which has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, regulates gun sales.

BY LINDA BENTLEY  |  JANUARY 16, 2013

California mulls bill to restrict ammo sales

Skinner acknowledged the nation’s powerful gun lobby has made passage of such bills an uphill struggle

OAKLAND, Calf. – Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, held a press conference last week on the first day Alameda County students returned to class from the Christmas break, to introduce Assembly Bill 48, which aims to regulate the sales of ammunition in much the same way California, which has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, regulates gun sales.

BY LINDA BENTLEY  |  JANUARY 16, 2013

Voters may get do-over on medical marijuana

These statistics weren’t lost on Kavanagh, who learned one in nine school kids who smoke marijuana acquire it illegally from cardholders

SCOTTSDALE – You have an opportunity to shape the future of your community by participating in the Scottsdale Visioning Town Hall. The application is available online through Jan. 11, at www.ScottsdaleGP.com.

BY LINDA BENTLEY  |  JANUARY 16, 2013

Peoria elementary school teacher turns NRA Instructor

Mast has changed the minds of some teachers in her district who are now interested in becoming trained in the safe handling of firearms

PHOENIX – Mindy Mast, a second grade teacher at Country Meadows Elementary School in the Peoria Unified School District, was raised around guns in a family that hunted both with rifles and archery.

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