We Interrupt This 2006 RTA Election Coverage …
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Pima County Treasurer Beth Ford: There Is a Plan To Destroy RTA Ballots
Pima County Treasurer Beth Ford says she sent notice to the political parties last month that she would be destroying the 2006 RTA ballots unless she heard an objection by Friday, July 11. Ford says she has held off on following the state law that requires the destruction of ballots six months after an election…
Huckelberry: No Plan To Destroy RTA Ballots
Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry says he’s unaware of any plans to destroy the ballots from the 2006 RTA election, as alleged by attorney Bill Risner in a press release yesterday. “I have said, ‘Do not destroy them under any circumstances,'” Huckelberry says. “My instructions to the county attorney were to go to court if…
Pima County to Destroy RTA Ballots?
Attorney Bill Risner and his election-integrity gang say Pima County Treasurer Beth Ford is getting ready to get destroy the ballots from Pima County’s 2006 RTA election. They also say they’ve got a former county employee who will testify under oath that a member of the Pima County Elections Division was worried that he’d be…
Fourth of July Events
Here are a few holiday events that were received too late for inclusion in our Juy 3 print issue. 45th Annual Camden/Palo Verde 4th of July Parade Corner of 1500 block of North Palo Verde Boulevard and Camden Street 8:30 a.m. parade registration; 9 a.m. parade begins Since the early 1960s, Tucsonans have enjoyed this…
Your TAMMIES Finalists
A note from the editor.
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Meaningful Mysteries
A UA Health Sciences professor writes about strange, otherworldly experiences he’s witnessed in his career
¡Ask a Mexican!
The curious case of Cesar Chavez and his evolving views on illegal immigration.
Hug a Hobo
Just in time for the Fourth of July comes this most American of kids’ films
Afghani Delights
Some of Tucson’s best food can be found at this little restaurant in Main Gate Square
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Noshing Around
New: Sertinos Café Steve and Carla Loper opened Sertinos Café a month ago at 8898 E. Tanque Verde Road (formerly Szechuan Restaurant). The franchise café features breakfast sandwiches, hot and cold sandwiches, soup, ice cream and coffee drinks, as well as a private conference room with an audio/visual hookup and Wi-Fi. Sertinos is open Monday…
Producing Community
An Amado farm with Hollywood roots depends on local support to have a future
Dark Heroics
While some people won’t like it, ‘Hancock’ made our critic happy
A Dog’s Life
A suit against a greyhound Web site exposes the bully
Now Showing at Home
“John Adams,” “Heathers: 20th High School Reunion Edition,” and “The Spiderwick Chronicles”
Take a Stand
For our seventh-annual Phoneys, we decided to give the candidates a call
Freedom Rocks!
Celebrate the Fourth with some patriotic pop
Politics Is Local
The city of Benson is rife with drama, accusations and intrigue among its leadership
Nine Questions
Michael Carson
Daddy Issues
LD 29 candidate Ephraim Cruz explains how he wanted the Attorney General’s Office to sue him for child support
Soundbites
WANNA GET AWAY? The economy is tanking; the price of gas–and just about everything else–is through the roof; we’re still engaged in two wars with no end in sight; global warming is threatening future generations, even though some people still believe it’s imaginary; the stock market is plunging; and our president is a smug asshole…
Island of Liberalism
When the copper miners left, the artists took their place in eclectic Bisbee
The Music Lives
The surviving members of Sun City Girls tour to honor a fallen bandmate
The Skinny
NEVER MIND Looks like we’ll have City Manager Mike Hein to kick around for a while. After all the drama that followed City Councilman Steve Leal’s e-mailed request for Hein’s resignation last week, Leal this week delivered a quasi-apology for bungling the resignation demand, though he added that he still had frustrations with Hein. The…
Live
Stone Temple Pilots, AVA at Casino Del Sol, Wednesday, June 25
Permanently Grounded
A helicopter school took student money and suddenly went bankrupt
Rhythm & Views
Just when all the best thrash- and death-metal band names–for example, Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition and Gruesome Stuff Relish–have been taken, along come three dudes from Canyon Country, California, with the plain-old-brown-wrapper moniker of Merciless Death (not to be confused with Death Angel, Napalm Death or just plain Death). The trio’s second album, Realm of Terror,…
Media Watch
Summer Adjustments at the ‘Star’
Rhythm & Views
“The past makes no sense / The future looks tense / I’m Now,” Mudhoney decry on the first track (“I’m Now”) of The Lucky Ones, their eighth record in 20 years. Perhaps the key to Mudhoney’s longevity resides in their still-intact point of view after two decades of making music together. Cut through the walls…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
There are four naked people running on the cover of Sigur Rós’ new album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (translation: With a buzz in our ears, we play endlessly). This would be a subversive move for nearly any other act, but not this one. The nudity-as-innocence implication is inherent in Sigur Rós’ work,…
Danehy
With his gun-case majority opinion, Antonin Scalia proved that he’s a fraud
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Kevin Koch
Top Ten in Music
Toxic Ranch Records top sales for the week
Tuttle
Is the United States ready to be truly and completely independent?
Police Dispatch
Going Bananas East Sunrise Drive, June 8, 11:50 a.m. A juice-bar customer unsatisfied with the quality of his smoothie allegedly became disruptive, personally offended and larcenous when refused a refund, said a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Sheriff’s deputies were called to Keva Juice, 4776 E. Sunrise Drive, and met with a young Caucasian male…
Not a Social Duty
Uninspired selections, bungled fundraising and the flawed Tucson Music Hall are driving this fan away from the TSO
Guest Commentary
If you’re unemployed in Arizona, expect to get far less help than the vast majority of your fellow Americans
Pick of the Week
Friends in Art
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
