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    “Pretty soon we’re not going to be able to find reasonable, decent people willing to subject themselves to serve in public office.”

    Those were the words of Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, after the awful shooting in his state that killed six people and almost killed a Democratic Congresswoman.

Cutting costs

    If there’s anything good about the struggling economy over the past few years, it’s that government is learning to operate with fewer dollars. It’s no longer business as usual and those who spend taxpayers’ dollars are having to learn to do more with less. In many cases that has meant thinking outside of the box.

Congressman Robert Hurt’s Weekly Column