An answer to Brodesky’s hit piece on Tucson City government and the Gadsden Company: Part 2
June 18, 2011
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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
June 18, 2011
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?
June 18, 2011
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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!
June 18, 2011
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)
June 18, 2011
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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
June 18, 2011
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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
The Usual Suspects
June 18, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Since when does one ask the suspect to conduct the investigation into himself? Yet this is precisely what the editors of the Arizona Daily Star did by asking reporter Rob O'Dell to fact-check the response from the City of Tucson to an opinion by the Star's opinion writer Josh Brodesky (Josh Brodesky: … Read more
Countdown With Keith Olbermann to Return Monday
June 18, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: No, not on MSNBC. You are going to have to find your way to Current TV (Al Gore's cable network). "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" is slated to launch on independently owned Current TV on Monday, June 20th. Find which channels carry Current where you live. For more, go to http://current.com/shows/countdown/channelfinder or http://on.fb.me/lk5wEU. Promo … Read more
