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Jun 12, 2008 | 12:05 am

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essxjay

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Originally Posted by BlatheringPenguin

Thanks. I'd heard it on our local NPR. Unbelievably enough our local newspapers did not pick this one up. I would have linked to the AP story I'd found, but it was only about two sentences longer than what I quoted. Your link is much more complete. (And, I'm suffering from rate-limited internet access just now, so everything is at a crawl....)

Well, the legislature just acted today. Newspapers, not being wire services, spend more time developing a narrative to the story and thus take longer to publish something. AP just sends out a quick 'n' dirty who, what, when, where and not much why.

They leave the rest of the why for the local AP affiliate to flesh out.

And the Arizona Republic has done just that. This, for your reading pleasured, moved about 50 minutes ago across google news: Ariz. Legislature kills Real ID; critics point to hefty costs.

Already, three comments are posted. Get going!

Last edited by essxjay; Jun 12, 2008 at 12:12 am

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