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David F. Nolan, whose fierce belief in limited government, personal freedom and the free-market economy led him to band with a handful of like-minded friends to found the national Libertarian Party in 1971, has died. He was 66.
According to Mark Hinkle, chairman of the party’s national committee, Nolan apparently had a stroke or heart attack while driving in Tucson on Saturday. He was found in his car and taken to a Tucson hospital, where he was pronounced dead early Sunday, Hinkle said.
The Libertarian Party has often been called the Party of Principle for its strict adherence to its ideals, even at the risk of alienating voters. It has advocated for limiting government in every sense, and its positions have included legalizing prostitution and drugs, removing restrictions on abortion and gay marriage, and ending U.S. involvement in foreign wars.

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Tucson’s Most Wanted: Candy Store murder revisited
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TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) - It’s been more than a year since Angel Martinez was shot and killed outside the Candy Store strip club on South Craycroft. 
What exactly happened that night in the Candy Store parking lot? And what is the victim’s family still seeking more than a year later.
Just one gunshot. That’s what changed everything at 1:17 AM October 28th, 2009, as 20-year-old Angel Martinez was leaving the Candy Store nightclub near 22nd and Craycroft.
Surveillance video from that night is dark and grainy and only shows chaos in the parking lot after the shooting.
Later that night, Tucson Police arrested 28-year-old Clifton Martinez, who had no relation to the victim, and charged him with murder.
For nearly a year, Martinez sat in jail awaiting trial.

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Some four dozen companies attended the event, which gathered porn producers like Pink Visual and Hustler along with industry legal groups like the Free Speech Coalition, Boyer said. “There were the big studios, right down the the mom-and-pop producers.”
Whatever their size, there’s been some shrinkage in the adult industry’s profits.
Revenues are down about 40 percent since 2007, Boyer said. Pink Visual’s focus on mobile phone distribution has led to better than average numbers, he said, but the company has still seen a 25-30 percent drop in revenue in recent years.
“Industry-wide, it amounts to hundred of millions (of dollars) over the course of a few years,” he said.
The adult industry is “battling a consumer mindset that adult content is something one should not have to pay for, and scrambling to prevent further infringement on their intellectual property rights,” a press release on the event said.
Advances in online technology have made the piracy problem that much harder for the adult entertainment industry, Boyer said.

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Tucson considers higher age rules for strippers
Associated Press – October 14, 2010 12:24 PM ET
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – Strippers in Tucson would have to be at least 21 years old under a city ordinance that is now being considered.
Strip clubs that serve alcohol already require dancers and customers to be 21 under state rules.
Fully nude clubs that don’t serve drinks can hire women as young as 18 and admit clients that young as well.
The Arizona Daily Star says city council member Steve Kozachik proposed the higher age because he was concerned about giving young people an opportunity to make better choices.
The Council discussed the proposed ordinance at its study session on Wednesday but took no action.
Only one club currently in business in the city would be affected by the ordinance.

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Advocates focus on reducing harm to the individual and society, on the assumption that fixating merely on penalties ultimately hurts much more than helps sex workers while often giving pimps and johns a pass.Yet pro-decriminalization groups don’t oppose all government intervention in commercial sex. A realistic, rights-based approach to sex work shares the realism of movements to decriminalize drug use and to overhaul the immigration system: the criminal code should protect people from real harm, including health hazards and violence, and not try in vain to stamp out an inevitable social process. Simply convicting women for prostitution won’t change the fact that many lack the social supports they need to take control of their economic destiny. Just like busting low-level drug offenses does nothing to undercut violent drug cartels, and rounding up undocumented migrant workers doesn’t dent the profits of businesses that feed on them.

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