The Lights of Tucson
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Back in the early 1970s there was a local favorite song, "The Lights of Tucson" by Jim Campbell. It came up during a family dinner and I bet that I could not find this fairly obscure song on the Internet. I lost the bet, so now I have to post it. Somebody … Read more
An answer to Brodesky’s hit piece on Tucson City government and the Gadsden Company: Part 2
by David Safier Yesterday I wrote a long post giving another side of the oft-repeated — and incorrect — implication in the Star that the Gadsden Company made over a million dollars in a "land flip" OK'd by the Tucson City Council. The post was based on a long conversation I had with Jerry Dixon, … Read more
Tucson City Council Election Update: Two more mayoral petition challenges in court
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: On Monday, June 20, at 1:30 p.m., the petition challenge to independent Pat Darcy will be heard by Judge Paul Tang in Courtroom 472. Sam Almy v. Pat Darcy, et al., Case No. 20114391. On Tuesday, June 21, at 1:30 p.m. [UPDATE: Hearing has been moved to 3:30 p.m.], the petition challenge … Read more
What if MAS were a charter school and Huppenthal liked its social agenda?
by David Safier When Huppenthal concluded the MAS program violated state law, he referenced the parts of the audit which criticized some of the texts for inappropriate passages and some of the curriculum for an overly political slant (though the audit also commented, it wasn't sure the objectionable texts or curriculum are currently in use). … Read more
Welcome Home Gabby!
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Welcome Home Gabby! Come Back Soon! Congresswoman Giffords office's press release: TUCSON — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will return to her hometown of Tucson this weekend for a brief private visit with her family. Giffords will make no public appearances and will grant no interviews during the visit, her first to Arizona … Read more
The Brodesky/O’Dell tag team (AKA, the B&O Journalistic Railroad)
by David Safier AzBlueMeanie commented on this morning’s O’Dell article defending Brodesky against the evil City of Tucson, which dared release a rebuttal to Brodesky’s poorly written, nasty, inaccurate column. The Meanie is absolutely right. A decent paper doesn’t send out someone with skin in the game, like O’Dell, to fact check a city rebuttal … Read more
Beautiful stuff
by David Safier Fitz's tribute to his father and family is quite a break from the usual comic takes on the week's events in his Saturday column. It's also a hell of a column — a personal, cultural, sociological biography of his family in a few hundred words. None of the usual maudlin, sentimental stuff … Read more
