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Breast Cancer Awareness 2021: Cancer and COVID: Patients face treatment and isolation and amid the pandemic
The doctor said it was probably nothing. Fatty tissue, if anything. Nina Shelton said she’d like to get a mammogram anyway. The lump didn’t feel like nothing to her, and it didn’t feel normal. She passed the time waiting for her mammogram results with fastidious, furious researching. It was March 2020, and COVID-19 had turned…
The View from here: Rethinking what local news can and should be
[image-1] ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Local news organizations are rethinking their relationships with the communities they serve, from deploying new messaging platforms that deliver news to overhauling their reporting practices, editors told ProPublica in a series of…
Arizona projects get sizeable cut of Great American Outdoors Act funds
WASHINGTON – Arizona projects got $110 million last year and will get another $159 million in the fiscal year that started this month, or more than 9% of all funding nationally under the Great American Outdoors Act for those two years. The money, dedicated largely to national parks but also to federal lands and tribal…
‘Unstoppable’ Kari Lake? Former news anchor has Trump’s endorsement and is packing them in a year before the 2022 election
‘Unstoppable’ Kari Lake? Former news anchor has Trump’s endorsement and is packing them in a year before the 2022 election On a warm Saturday evening, several hundred people milled around the Old West-style trappings of Frontier Town in Cave Creek, waiting for Kari Lake to take the stage. The rally was held to “Back the…
Latino cartoonist’s ‘TOONDEMIC’ fights COVID misinformation
TEMPE – It all started over a bowl of “medicinal menudo,” a term political cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz coined as part of a running joke. Several years ago, during a convention at Harvard University, social scientist Gilberto Lopez took Alcaraz to a spot that served the Mexican beef tripe soup. Thankful for the meal – and…
GOP lawmakers push back against federal probe into threats against school board members
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans on Thursday objected to a move by the Justice Department to investigate violent threats made against local school board members and teachers, arguing that the federal agency is “policing the speech of citizens and concerned parents.” “Violence and true threats of violence should have no place in our civic discourse, but…
Pima County supervisors reject mask mandate in K-12 schools
The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday against mask requirements for K-12 schools in Pima County. Supervisor Matt Heinz presented the proposal for masks in schools in response to research from the Centers for Disease Control and Pima County. Pima County recently co-authored a study with the CDC that found K-12 schools…
Fiddles and Boots: Quebec band brings traditional Celtic music to Tucson
Le Vent du Nord 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8 Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway Reserved seats $25 general, $23 seniors www.inconcerttucson.com
XOXO: Mark your calendars
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies. This week, Asleep At The Wheel, Lizzy & The Triggerman, Tommie Sunshine, The High Kings, Robert Earl Keen, Limbeck and others perform at a venue near you. Read on. Mark your calendars… Thursday, Oct. 7 An integral figure in the Nashville songwriting community, Dana Cooper has collaborated with…
Federal Flailing: A jammed U.S. Senate can’t seem to get cannabis legalization to the finish line
Congressional Democrats are still trying to advance the legalization of cannabis on a federal level, despite opposition by most Republicans at all levels of government. Senate Bill 1183, the Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act, has gained the support of Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly, while the SAFE Banking Act is back for a fourth encore,…
The Skinny: Choice Matters: The GOP candidates running for Senate next year want to end abortion in the United States
With a Supreme Court that’s looking for an avenue to overturn Roe v. Wade (or at least whittle away at it until it’s irrelevant), abortion rights have never been more threatened in the United States. Texas has already found a work-around that has shut down access to most abortion services (at least for now) and…
Breast Cancer Awareness 2021: Breast cancer can affect anyone at any age
October is breast cancer awareness month, an annual campaign to raise both awareness and money for research and treatment. Many organizations participate with fund raising activities such as the Susan G. Komen march, the Association of Flight Attendants “get your pink on,” and Avon cosmetics “Pink Yourself.” Even the National Football League has its “A…
City Week: Weekly Picks
Editor’s Note: While we are delighted to see Tucsonans once again gathering for fun events, we are also aware that the Delta variant is circulating and case counts in Arizona are on the rise. Please consider getting vaccinated against COVID if you haven’t yet and following CDC guidance, which includes wearing masks at crowded indoor…
Editor’s Note: Screen Time
Every October, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Tucson Weekly joins with its sister papers in the Tucson Local Media empire to bring a special focus to a disease that will affect nearly 6,000 Arizona women and their families in 2021. Fortunately, the treatment for breast cancer has come a long way, although the…
Danehy: An American road trip via newspaper clippings
So there’s this nerdy married couple I know. When they were dating, their idea of a hot date was to go to dinner and then work on a jigsaw puzzle together. Now that they’re married, they go to museums and stuff, but they do so in other cities so that they have to stay over…
Crooked Enterprise: The Many Saints of Newark doesn’t do justice to the Sopranos
Fourteen years after the screen went to black (I’m in the Tony’s dead camp!), The Sopranos returns with a prequel movie that proves to be a miscalculation in continuing the franchise. It’s proof that, sometimes, it’s a little too hard to go back. With The Sopranos TV series, viewers got used to storylines that could…
