Diana Rhoades: A Thousand Trees, Please!

Diana Rhoades is a Director of the Board of the Downtown Alliance and is passionate about creating living, vibrant street-scapes in Tucson that we can be proud of. She is currently running Regina Romero’s City Council campaign. She is advocating a project to beautify downtown through the planting of 1000 trees that will use passive … Read more

Paul Eckerstrom’s Legacy of Election Integrity

Paul Eckerstrom and I had a great conversation after a recent Drinking Liberally session about his role in the Election Integrity movement and getting the audit legislation passed. If you want to learn how grassroots politics works at its best, I encourage you to take the time to listen in. Download eckerstrom.wav Paul (on the … Read more

Harry’s Wealth Tax Breaks… for the Middle Class?

I had a conversation (if me yelling a lot can be called a conversation) with Seth Scott, Representative Harry Mitchell’s Press Secretary about Harry’s co-sponsorship of a tax cut plan to keep Capital Gains taxes at their current Bush-mandated rate, and to decrease estate taxes by increasing the exemption to 3.75 million and graduating the … Read more

Rest In Peace: Jesse Latas

The memorial service for Jesse will be at 9:00 Friday (8/3) morning at Adair Avalon Chapel, 8090 N. Northern Avenue, Tucson, http://www.adairfuneralhomes.com/Finding_Us.html. Graveside services will be at 1:00 Friday (8/3) afternoon at the Southern Arizona Veterans’ Cemetery, 1300 Buffalo Soldier Trail, Sierra Vista, AZ, http://www.azdvs.gov/veteranscemetery.htm Memorials may be sent to any of the following organizations: … Read more