David Safier by David Safier This post is a bit of a stretch, but it’s Sunday, which is my Day of Stretch. Optional headline: Secular Meets Scholarly Meets Sacred. First, the Secular Meets Scholarly part. The Grateful Dead “will donate a cache of their papers, posters and props on Thursday to the University of California, Santa Cruz, … Read more
by David Safier Unless the TUSD School Board decides to “consider” the issue of school closings one more time, Tuesday should be the big night for Ochoa, Corbett, Wrightstown and Rogers elementary schools. The Board is scheduled to vote on the school closure issue at its 7pm meeting (1010 E. 10th St., for anyone interested … Read more
by David Safier (TASL) Could it be that tax-and-spenders are coming back into style? An editorial in the Citizen says that a business group, the Time Coalition, is advocating raising our sales tax by a cent to pay for improvements to transportation. The Citizen agrees with the idea of raising taxes but suggests the bulk … Read more
by David Safier Your roving correspondent returns to Tucson, unbloodied and unbowed. Actually, I had a great time. It was almost perfect, give or take a few percentage points. So now it’s back to the education beat. Let’s see, what’s happened since I was gone? I hear: • Russell Pearce wants a law that says … Read more
by David Safier If the numbers are there, they can be spun how you want them. The press is saying, “Hillary by 10%” because Clinton has 54.6% — round up to 55% — and Obama has 45.3% — round down to 45%. Fair enough. But if we subtract her unrounded number from his, we get … Read more