I haven’t written anything yet on the alliterative Robert Robuck, the candidate who is taking on Ramón Valadez in the Democratic primary for County Supervisor. One Valadez booster I talked to was convinced that Robuck was recruited by Ray Carroll to run against Valadez. If so, he didn’t prepare this guy for his run too […]
Michael Bryan is taking a bit of heat over at his blog for suggesting that Joe Higgins is a stalking horse for Al Melvin. I’m a bit leery of that one. The guy just doesn’t seem like Melvin’s cup of tea. I’ve been involved in disagreements with the man and never once did his veins […]
Local Buisinessman Joe Higgins is talking himself up as a candidate in the Republican Primary to Ann Day. I’m sure that he is no relation, genetically or philisophically, to the Joe Higgins that served in the Irish Parliament as the lone member of the socialist Techta Dála party from 1997-2007.
Higgins owns several local buisinesses, including […]
The four schools that were on the chopping block were granted a reprieve last night. In the end, the only school that any Tucson Unified School District board members attempted to close was Wrightstown. That attempt failed on a 2 -3 vote; the votes in support of closure were Bruce Burke and board president Alex Rodriguez.
Observers wondered if it was […]
I caught this post by David Safier over on Blog for Arizona about the impending school closings in TUSD. Heck, more than impending, they plan to vote on them tonight.
Safier underestimates the firepower behind the effort to keep Ochoa open. Because of its location, former Supervisor Dan Eckstrom and his brother Art Eckstrom not only […]
There has been a bit of a scramble on the part of local Democrats to find a candidate to run for State Senate in District 26 after Charlene Pesquiera’s withdrawl. It appears that they have settled on one: local consultant Cheryl Cage.
I first met Cage when she was part of an informal group of Wesley […]
Here’s some unsolicited advice for y’all if you are not trying to construct a coherent argument:
Claim that soccer is a sport of rich kids while making arguments on behalf of horse racing.
When you realize that that argument isn’t working, switch to the argument that the local soccer community is not interested in coaching poor kids. […]
As many of you know, I sit on the Pima County Bond Committee. You are no doubt aware of the hubub regarding Rillito Downs race track.
Former Pima County Supervisor Ed Moore is threatening to sue. Long time Pima County residents will remember bumper stickers that appeared in the late 1980’s that said “I’ve been sued […]
Liz Celania-Fagen, a regional superintendent for the Des Moines Independent School District, has been chosen to be the next superintendent for TUSD.
I only note this because I had a couple of people who consider themselves so “in the know” insist to me over the last couple of weeks that the fix was in for Rick […]
Steve Emerine is a frequent reader of this here blog, and he also sends me copies of his columns for Inside Tucson Business. In a column printed on Friday, he went off on local leaders who he thinks are ignoring the economic downturn. Some of it (like his attack on Tim Bee for focusing on […]
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