Yesterday Tucson Sentinel political reporter Jim Nintzel hosted a balanced discussion on the RTA Next, known as Prop. 418 and 419 on the upcoming March 10, 2026 special election ballot. This was on the Friday Bill Buckmaster radio show, 1030 AM on KVOI FM radio. Regular host Bill Buckmaster was on vacation. Listen to it … Read more
The Press Room on AZPM hosted by new News Director David Lee held a live audience forum last week, which aired today online about the upcoming March 10, 2026 RTA Next ballot. It is a proposed extension of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) passed in May 2006, for another 20 years to 2046. The original … Read more
Juan Ciscomani voted YES on the House of Representatives bill 7147, which provided appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security, including Border Patrol and ICE. The bill contains no measures that would restrict the unlawful behavior of agents. He cast his vote with knowledge of atrocities committed by agents: detaining four- and five-year-old children to … Read more
With another Government Shutdown looming over, not health care costs this time, but what to fund ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is negotiating a potential deal to avoid it with the White House. In reporting from the New York Times and MSNOW, the outlines of the deal … Read more
The hideous ICE murders in Minneapolis of the so-called “domestic terrorists” have become more common — and blatant. I am reminded of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here.” The story was about the United States evolving from a representative democracy into a totalitarian autocracy. This concept was considered impossible, even though it was … Read more