Yesterday, the grassroots citizens group which has been called “…one of the most effective and organized yet truly grassroots groups out there” turned in over 1000 petition signatures of registered Globe voters to Globe’s City Clerk, Gina Paul. The petitions were part of a Citizen’s Ballot Initiative to force Globe’s …
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Local EDC Stone Deaf and Dead Wrong
Because our leaders won’t listen, we have taken the democratic option available to citizens in this country to force the City, our elected leaders who should be listening to the voters, but aren’t - to put it to a vote on the next regularly scheduled election.
Read More »Citizens launch ballot initiative process
Can Citizens force a vote on a controversial plan to bring a Private Prison to Globe? No ballot initiative has ever been done in the 19 years that Globe City Clerk, Gina Paul has been at her post. Its easy to see why. Ballot initiatives, like so much of our …
Read More »An Open Letter to EDC Board President
January 24, 2011 Open Letter to Mr. Jerry McCreary, EDC Board President From: Jim E. Moss, Globe Resident & Business Owner Dear Mr. McCreary, During CALL TO THE PUBLIC at the January 10 Globe City Council meeting, and through other public statements, you have raised several questions/issues that deserve a …
Read More »‘Citizens Opposed’ meet with State Leaders on Prison
"...In twenty five years, the DOC has never put in a prison where a community objected." Director Charles Ryan, Az Department of Corrections.
Read More »Globe Citizens Opposed to a Prison Town Pack the House
Outsourcing incarceration to the for-profit prison industry is bad public policy for all the reasons we heard this evening. …….And, any new, additional prison planned for Globe is absolutely NOT the sort of enterprise this community needs or wants...
Read More »Local EDC under fire for performance and secrecy
By: TED LAKE Staff Writer AZ SilverBelt Reprinted with Permission: AZ SilverBelt June 30 For the first time since its inception in March 2007, the Southern Gila County Economic Development Corporation has two very aggressive leaders who want the organization to move now and get more jobs in the community by pushing for new …
Read More »Prison Politics: A reading/Action LIST
STATEWIDE ISSUES regarding Private Prisons within the last 2 years WISCONSIN May 2010 Is Wisconsin turning into a huge Prison ARIZONA July 2010 Governor Jan Brewers ties to CCA (Corrections Corp of America) Burn like Neon Are Private Prisons Worth The Savings? KPHO5 …
Read More »Afternoon eToon: Globe’s Prison Town Debate
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Read More »DarinLand: From ‘Paradise’ to ‘Prison Town’?
Milton wrote ‘Paradise Lost’, remember- not ‘Paradise Penitentiary’.
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