by David Safier (TASL) If you don’t know about the threat of buffelgrass to Tucson’s desert ecosystem, you need to educate yourself. Jim Kiser has an excellent op ed in today’s Star, a group of scientists and politicians put together an eye-opening 10 minute video and the Bufflegrass Information Center website is filled with information. … Read more
by David Safier In just one year, TUSD lost items that cost $1.6M. That’s the headline of a front page story in The Star by Rhonda Bodfield and Enrich Volante. I can guarantee this is the first time the story has appeared in a Tucson newspaper. But if you read my May 16 post, Nearly … Read more
by David Safier If you, like me, are a New Yorker subscriber who is furious about their Obamas-as-Muslim-terrorists satirical cover misfire, you might want to do something about it. Here’s what I’m doing. I’m sending the cover to the New Yorker’s Letters to the Editor section. I figure this is enough of a message to … Read more
There has been much clamor over Bush’s visit to Tucson to host a fund-raiser for Senator Bee’s Congressional bid. Most commentary on the blogs has focused on Bee’s political tone-deafness in associating so closely with a deeply divisive and unpopular President, with Bush’s secretiveness during the visit, and about how the disruption and inconvenience caused … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Well, President Bush has already come and gone from the Old Pueblo (don’t let the door hit you where the good Lord split you). You didn’t know? Shrub was here to raise money for Tim Bee in a super-double-secret fund raiser (Shhh! Be very quiet. No one is supposed to know I’m … Read more