Election lies boost the bottom lines of prominent Republican candidates
A handful of Arizona Republican candidates who have built national profiles by embracing former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election found their campaigns getting a big financial boost from voters outside Arizona in the first three months of 2022. State Sen. Wendy Rogers, perhaps the legislature’s most vocal proponent of the thoroughly debunked…
Bill allowing teachers to be sued for ‘usurping’ parental rights clears Senate
A bill to allow parents to sue Arizona teachers for “usurping the fundamental right” of a parent in raising their children won approval from state Senate Republicans on Monday and is one vote away from Gov. Doug Ducey’s desk. Supporters of the bill said it was necessary to subject teachers to lawsuits in order to…
Arizona unemployment hit ‘historic’ low of 3.3% in March, new data shows
WASHINGTON – Arizona’s unemployment rate fell to 3.3% in March, the lowest rate in almost a half-century, according to numbers released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The White House said Arizona was one of 17 states whose jobless rates hit “historic lows” in March, as the U.S. economy claws its way back from…
The haves and the have nots become clear in governor, secretary of state races
The race for Arizona governor appears to be solidifying around three candidates who are each raising a lot of money, but also burning through it at a fast rate. Karrin Taylor Robson, the developer and former university regent, once again showed she is willing to spend whatever it takes to replace Doug Ducey at the…
Migrants wait at the border while U.S. battles over lifting COVID-19 ban on processing asylum applications
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Nogales sees border-crossing delays as trucks flee Texas border logjam
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Dems launch Tax Day ad campaign in Arizona to highlight GOP’s proposed tax increases
Democrats have launched a digital ad campaign in Arizona to remind voters in advance of Tax Day of a GOP plan that would raise taxes on half of Americans and an estimated 34% of Arizonans. The campaign, which launched Wednesday, will direct Google users searching for tax services to a website the Democratic National Committee…
COVID-related Medicaid coverage extended – for now – for 500,000 Arizonans
WASHINGTON – Federal officials threw a lifeline this week to as many as 500,000 Arizonans, just days before they were in danger of losing the Medicaid coverage they got under a COVID-19 public health emergency. That emergency declaration, which was set to expire Saturday, was extended Tuesday for another 90 days by Health and Human Services…
Pima County RTA falling short on cash, but largely meeting its goals
An audit of Pima County’s Regional Transportation Authority Plan found it falls short by $149 million, putting 11 projects at risk. The plan was enacted in 2006, after voters passed a one half cent sales tax dedicated to a spate of projects to improve roads and public transit. Initially, costs were estimated to be around $2.4…
Fresh Coat: Alley Cat Murals are restoring a mural at Roskruge K-8 Bilingual School
A group of local artists is working to add character to public spaces all throughout the city. Alley Cat Murals focuses on restoring historic murals that they feel sentimental about and reviving community spaces. A new project with Roskruge Bilingual K-8 School in the Tucson Unified School District is just that. Allison Miller runs Alley…
Arizona Opera Reimagines Mozart, Minus the Misogyny
Così fan tutte is Italian for “Women are like that,” more or less. And that’s not meant in a good way. It’s like the 18th-century equivalent of that thing where men let out a long breath and say, exasperated, “Women.” In a nutshell, the plot of this 1790 Mozart opera, being performed by Arizona Opera…
Hunger Games: 15 places to cure your 4/20 munchies
Fun fact: Scientists with the society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior conducted a 2018 study that showed that dosing lab mice with cannabis vapor triggered hunger hormones and shifted portions of the brain to “hungry mode.” But you don’t have to be a scientist to know that weed enhances your appetite. You just need…
CANNABIS BOWL 2022: Results of this year’s reader poll
Dispensaries and Clinics Best Delivery Service Earth’s Healing, 78 W. River Road, (520) 253-7198; 2075 E. Benson Highway, (520) 373-5779, earthshealing.org Even before the pandemic, Earth’s Healing’s delivery service was on point. If you’re feeling too lazy (or too high) to drive, the friendly staff will bring your bud to you, as long as you…
Lord Have Mercy: New law shields religious foster, adoption agencies from discrimination lawsuits
Faith-based adoption and foster care agencies in the state who make decisions based on their religious views are now free to do so without any threat of lawsuits thanks to a new law signed this week, and opponents say that could hurt foster kids across the state. The new law, which Gov. Doug Ducey signed…
Enter Freely: Surrender to the inevitable at Fourth Ave’s Portal
With mask mandates expiring and many of us rightfully dragging our Zoom apps into the recycle bin, local businesses across Southern Arizona are celebrating what it means to be social again. At Portal, an intimate cocktail bar located at 220 N. Fourth Ave., they are taking the idea of social rather seriously and that is…
Tucson Salvage: Blood is Thicker than Aguas Dulces
A blue and orange 737 jet ascends from Tucson International, still low enough to read the Southwest Airlines logo, and Emilio says, “Staffing is really hard. It’s like no one wants to work.” A dust-devil twists up and vanishes into the South Nogales Highway traffic, and he continues, almost shouting to compete with the jet,…
City Week: Weekly Picks
Taste of Tucson. This event has a Build Your Own Michelada Bar and a Build Your Own Margarita Bar. I feel like maybe that’s all I need to write? If you’re still not sold, though, you’ll also want to know there’s more than 20 food vendors, more than 100 shopping vendors and live music. We…
Open Invitation: Dr. Heather Moroso celebrates grand opening of new South Tucson clinic
Heather Moroso, one of Tucson’s top cannabis doctors, started work on a new community wellness center just as most of the world was shutting down thanks to the COVID outbreak in early 2020. More than two years later, she celebrated with the grand opening of the Moroso Medical Center on April 1. Moroso, who has…
Cannabis Conundrum
A woman who was put on the Arizona Department of Child Services Child Abuse Central Registry because she used cannabis while pregnant thought she had finally defeated state officials in the Arizona Court of Appeals, but the Arizona Attorney General’s Office may still take the case to the Arizona Supreme Court. The case that garnered…
Cannabis Catering: New business offers infused dinner parties
A Tucson woman is putting her love of cannabis together with her party planning skills to create marijuana-infused dinner parties. Meaghan Gould, aka Meaghie Jane, threw her first party in February at a private residence in the Catalina Foothills. “In Tucson we do have that cannabis community,” Gould said. Guests were greeted by an elaborately…
High Spirits: Sampling a variety of cannabis products on the shelves of your local dispensary
Botanica Flower. Flower has come a long way from the days when we were separating stems and seeds from the Mexican weed we used to score from our dealer back in the ’90s. We tried out Botanica’s house-grown blueberry strain, a gorgeous fresh bud that had a light, fruity aroma right out of the pack.…
Billion-Dollar Bud: Arizonans spent more than $1.4 billion on cannabis in 2021
In the first year that Arizona adults could legally buy cannabis, they spent slightly more than $1.4 billion on marijuana. According to the Arizona Department of Revenue, the recreational market brought in nearly $650 million, despite sales beginning on Jan. 22, 2021. The well-established medical market that has been in existence for a decade recorded…
Border Burden: Critics doubt Biden administration ready for fallout from ending Title 42
For immigration advocates, the end to Title 42 couldn’t come soon enough, but critics warned this week that it’s coming too soon and will “open the floodgates” to migrants at the southern border. “When Title 42 goes away, not only is it going to make our job somehow even more impossible to do, it creates…
Sonoran Explorin’: Solving Problems You Didn’t Know You Had
At the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association Home & Garden show last weekend, I learned how many things are wrong with my house, and myself, that I didn’t realize. I am cleaning the floors wrong, cooking my food wrong, washing my windows wrong, and organizing my life wrong. Should I get a non-surgical facelift using…
XOXO: Mark your calendars
Thursday, April 14 Once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, there emerged a mythic band from the UK: Led Zeppelin. For 27 years, ZoSo have provided a ticket to board a time machine back to an era in rock history that defined glamor and excess. The attention to detail is impressive. Yet, it’s…
