Jim Sharpe has worked in and around the media since he was an Arizona high school student. He’s been a talk show host; a program director; a media liaison and consultant for political campaigns; and an award-winning journalist (including being awarded Reporter of the Year). He’s worked in major markets like Los Angeles and tiny towns like Page, Arizona — and in far-flung places like Iraq: where, as an embedded reporter during Operation Iraqi Freedom, he survived a roadside bombing while on a U.S. Army patrol north of Baghdad. You can hear Arizona’s Morning News weekdays from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m.
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JIM SHARPE | Mar 29, 2016Donald Trump’s campaign manager is a jerk and it’s a damn shame people don’t care
Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is a jerk and a bully and none of his supporters care that Trump is sticking by him.
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ARIZONA ELECTION NEWS | Mar 20, 2016Sharper Point: Will your vote matter during the Arizona primary?
It's the one question that every American has asked regarding their constitutional right to vote: Will my vote matter? The simple answer: yes.
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ARIZONA ELECTION NEWS | Mar 16, 2016
Sharper Point: President Obama nominates Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court
President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland as his Supreme Court choice to fill the vacancy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
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ARIZONA ELECTION NEWS | Mar 14, 2016
Superdelegates keep the Democratic Party from being a democracy
Bernie Sanders easily won the popular vote in Vermont, but at least three of the state's superdelegates cast their vote in support Hillary Clinton.
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ARIZONA ELECTION NEWS | Feb 29, 2016Sharper Point: Can America survive if Donald Trump wins Super Tuesday?
Let's imagine: Donald Trump wins Super Tuesday, goes on to claim the Republican nomination and then wins the White House. What happens to America?
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ARIZONA ELECTION NEWS | Feb 1, 2016Sharper Point: Let’s talk about the Iowa caucuses (because they are crazy)
The day has finally arrived: The Iowa caucuses are here. On Monday, the first breaking point in the 2016 Presidential Election will take place, pitting all candidates against one another to eventually whittle down to a final two.
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JIM SHARPE | Jan 25, 2016A (tough) love letter to the Arizona Cardinals
Thanks for the great season, but I'm going to start asking a lot more of the Arizona Cardinals now that they've arrived as a real NFL contender.
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JIM SHARPE | Jan 21, 2016Sharper Point: Why the Arizona Cardinals will beat the Carolina Panthers
Based on what I've seen on social media this week, I'm confident when I say the Arizona Cardinals are going to beat the Carolina Panthers this weekend.
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JIM SHARPE | Jan 12, 2016Sharper Point: The important facts of Cardinals vs. Packers
In case you somehow missed it, the Arizona Cardinals will play the Green Bay Packers in the NFL playoffs on Saturday night in Glendale.
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JIM SHARPE | Jan 5, 2016Turns out more guns equal fewer murders in Phoenix
It flies in the face of everything we’ve been told, but we now have a shining example of how to combat the scourge of gun violence: We need more guns.
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JIM SHARPE | Dec 29, 2015Being ‘illegal’ in Mexico is no way to treat affluenza
The parents of Ethan Couch, the Texas teen who escaped jail because of his affluenza, did him an even worse service by sheltering him from consequence.
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JIM SHARPE | Dec 23, 2015Sharper Point: Jim’s New Year’s resolutions (for other people)
Here is what I think the New Year's resolutions of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, the Arizona Cardinals and even Kanye West should be.
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GENERAL NEWS | Dec 14, 2015The right approach to a wrong-way driver
The truth is, there is no complete solution for stopping people who drive the wrong way on Valley freeways, but we all need to play a part in trying to make that happen.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 9, 2015Sharper Point: Donald Trump’s Muslim ban proposal will harm the US more than help
In Wednesday's "Sharper Point," KTAR News's Jim Sharpe discusses the problems with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to restrict all Muslims from entering the U.S.
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JIM SHARPE | Dec 8, 2015Why Trump’s no-Muslim plan is a non-starter
How two men who share a name, were raised in the same house, went to the same school and were taught the same values could end up so different is beyond me.