Larry Bodine

Larry is an articulate and insightful commentator whose views are shaped by a combination of journalism, entrepreneurship, law practice, and leadership.‎ ★★ Sign up for my occasional newsletter at Bit.ly/LBNow. ★★ ✍ He is an experienced leader, having served as Chair of the LD18 Democrats, and President of the Democrats of Greater Tucson, a teacher at the UA Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and Video Manager for Iskashitaa Refugee Network, ‎ ✍ A common-sense business leader, he operated a successful marketing consultancy for 20 years. He is skilled in fundraising, artificial intelligence, and online communications.‎ ✍He considers multiple viewpoints before forming an opinion. His ethos is the Boy Scout Law.‎ ✍ Larry is a lifelong writer, having worked as a seven-time award-winning journalist for the New York Daily News and as the author of 600 articles for the Blog for Arizona.‎ ✍He is a graduate of Amherst College and Seton Hall Law School and has also attended the University of Munich in Germany.‎ ✍He is not all work and no play. Larry enjoys singing and playing the guitar, hiking Tucson's beautiful trails, going on outings with his Portuguese Water Dog, weight training, and meeting his many friends for breakfast.‎ ‎▼ Scroll down to see my articles below. ▼

Trump Sending ICE Goons to Phoenix for an Immigration “Hub of Removal” Complete with Private Tent Prisons

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Trump is turning metro Phoenix into the Southwest’s next immigration “hub of removal,” with a dramatic escalation of ICE operations, expanding arrests, raids, and even a Tent City prison. The Supreme Court ruled against sending the National Guard into Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. So ICE is pivoting to Phoenix—a city with a Democratic mayor, a … Read more

►Now with Transcript◄ The 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See

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Now you can watch and read the transcript of the 13-minute 60 Minutes episode that CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss censored. View the video at https://www.thereset.news/p/breaking-heres-the-60-minutes-segment Hours before it was set to air on December 21, 2025, Weiss pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast. Journalist Yashar Ali of The … Read more

Arizona’s Midterms Will Be a Knife Fight — and Democrats Must Be Ready

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Top strategist Eric Chalmers warns of a ruthless GOP machine, a looming voter-suppression blitz, and the fight for Arizona’s political soul. Arizona is heading into one of the most consequential midterm election cycles in its modern history — and Democrats who underestimate what’s coming do so at their peril. That was the unmistakable message delivered … Read more

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