Former Cochise County Attorney and State Senator John Pintek has died.
Pintek told me many times about his father being loaded up on the train in 1917 in the Bisbee Deportation, a dark incident in our labor history when striking copper miners were loaded onto box cars by a heavilly armed improptu sheriff’s posse. Pintek’s father [...]
Former Councilmember Molly McKasson’s husband, Rich Morgan, has died after a battle with cancer.
Morgan was a set designer for movies and television shows. His career included the heyday when Tucson was frequently used as a location for shows such as Petrocelli, Little House on the Prairie and The Fugitive. Among his more recent work was [...]
I just heard the news that Maurice Grossman, one of Tucson’s true treasures, has passed away. Grossman was a ceramic artist, community activist and leader in the GLBT community.
Maurice was a kind man who could get frustrated with people on occasion, but his sunny outlook touched everyone that had the good fortune to know him. [...]
UPDATE: Statement from Joe Biden after the jump.
The 106 year old woman who Barack Obama mentioned in his victory speech, Ann Nixon Cooper, has passed away. This year, Cooper worked with reporter Karen Grigsby Bates and released her autobiography, A Century and Some Change: My Life Before the President Called My Name. Bates wrote up a short rememberance of this remarkable woman [...]
I heard some sad news about someone that many of us that were active in the Young Democrats may have known: Eli Senna. Senna was a major force in the Young Democrats of New Mexico that I first met during my time as regional director in the YDA. I first heard the news on his [...]
I attended an informal memorial for Enrique Pérez Gómez, a community activist who passed away last week. I have to admit that I didn’t know him that well, only to say hello when I’d see him in the room. I was invited to attend, and I’m glad I did.
We use the term “tireless advocate” a [...]
Bruce King, who served as Governor of the State of New Mexico for three non-consecutive terms, has passed away at the age of 85. His gentle, cowboy manner and frequent malaprops (“A whole box of Pandoras…”) belied a sharp mind and sterling political skills. I had the honor of meeting the man on two occasions. [...]
The local Democrats put on one of their annual galas and that year’s emcee was Jim McNulty. It was my brother’s responsibility to make up that list of dignitaries and petty potentates that are in the room so that the emcee doesn’t accidently insult the fragile egos of former county row officers and quixotic legislative [...]
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