Wendy Rogers will face an investigation after claiming the Buffalo mass shooting was done by the ‘feds,’ not a heavily armed racist
The Arizona Senate is launching an ethics investigation into Republican Sen. Wendy Rogers for her comments on social media blaming the mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday on federal law enforcement instead of the white supremacist accused of carrying out the attack. While the Senate moved to investigate Rogers, a Flagstaff Republican who has a…
Arizona would likely see recounts after every election under popular bill
Update May 17, 3 p.m.: The Arizona House voted 50-1-9 this afternoon to pass the bill. It now awaits Gov. Doug Ducey’s signature before becoming law. Arizona’s largest county, Maricopa, would likely be required to recount all ballots cast in every election moving forward if a proposed change to state law passes. The bill, awaiting a…
U.S. House Jan. 6 Committee subpoenas Andy Biggs, 4 other GOP members who declined to testify
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol subpoenaed Arizona GOP Rep. Andy Biggs and four other Republican House members Thursday who the panel believes have knowledge of the events leading up to the attack, including communication with then-President Donald Trump. The Select Committee to Investigate the January…
Arnold Schwarzenegger helped fund Maricopa County elections, to no GOP outrage
A new law barring elections officials from accepting private grants was fueled by conspiracy theories about money donated by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, but no one in Arizona seemed to notice or care that movie star and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger also gave money to help Maricopa County conduct elections in 2020. The USC…
Jovan Pulitzer’s fraud claims are ‘utter rubbish,’ fellow ‘audit’ researcher told the Arizona Senate
A researcher the Arizona Senate hired to double-check an analysis of ballots by election conspiracy theorist Jovan Pulitzer said his claims that there were upwards of 12,000 counterfeit ballots were “utter rubbish.” A trove of newly released documents related to the Arizona Senate’s partisan review of the 2020 presidential election shows that EchoMail CEO Shiva Ayyadurai was…
Chew On This: Meat Puppets reintroducing themselves through live release
Meat Puppets’ drummer Derrick Bostrom is down on the music business. He said he stopped paying attention to current music when the Spice Girls debuted. He’s frustrated that successful “musicians” these days are TikTok stars, those who buy ads on YouTube or trust fund children. “It’s not the rock ’n’ roll that I got into,”…
XOXO: Mark Your Calendars
Mark your calendars… Thursday, May 12 Where the river of life flows. In 1989, this unsigned German guitarist’s self-released debut album, Marita: Shadows and Storms, was recorded in a shack beside a gravel pit on old analog equipment for less than $3,000. After signing with Higher Octave Music, a remastered/rebranded version, Nouveau Flamenco (1990), rose…
Sweet Treat: When life gives you Sublime’s lemon tea cakes, you’ve got cause to celebrate
Last month, Sublime won the Best Baked Edible in Tucson Weedly’s Cannabis Bowl—and the reason readers love them probably has a lot to do with the brand’s extraordinary Lemon Tea Cake. The treat, which has been on Sublime’s menu since 2017, is “hands down” the company’s most popular product, topping the company’s sales charts almost…
City Week: Weekly Picks
Astronomica. Feeling a little down about the state of the world? Maybe not quite ready for the heat of summer? What you need is an embodied, interactive, performative enactment of your star chart. Lucky for you, that’s exactly what Flam Chen is serving up for the next two weekends. This show combines theater devices and…
Remembrance of Travels Past
I’ve long been a fan of Tucson author Tom Miller, perhaps best known for his travel writing about Latin America in books such as The Panama Hat Trail and Cuba: Hot and Cold. Miller got his start in the underground press of the 1960s, which may explain why he’s always seemed to have a soft…
Balsa Wood Buses and a Man Cave Model S
Mark Hart is surrounded by buses, and that’s the way he likes it. He works at Old Pueblo Trolley and Bus Museum, where he spends his days either giving guided tours of the place or building intricate models of buses and trains. The museum houses dozens of historic buses and streetcars in various stages of…
No Choice: McConnell doesn’t rule out U.S. Senate vote outlawing abortion if GOP takes control
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell isn’t ruling out bringing a nationwide abortion ban up for a vote, should the U.S. Supreme Court end the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy and his party regains the chamber in the November elections. The Kentucky Republican was somewhat reserved last week when repeatedly asked by reporters at the…
House Calls: TMC introduces rovers to attend to your medical needs
Next time you need to go to urgent care, you might be able to get an old-fashioned housecall instead. Tucson Medical Center officials announced last week that they have partnered with DispatchHealth to give patients comprehensive, at-home, acute care. TMC is currently the only hospital in the Tucson metro area providing this mobile urgent care…
Tucson Salvage: A Survivor Meet and Greet, Holocaust Pt. 1
Several months ago, my 8-year-old son ran in through the door like he does, floppy stomps, calling me names in the kitchen in some colorful foreign language he gleaned off Fortnite. He sat at the table and quieted, a rare hush fell over him, a kind of sadness, a tenderness. He explained he had just…
Travelin’ Man
Tom Miller’s writing career has sent him around the world, from Cuba to Spain and throughout the American Southwest. After nearly 50 years of underground journalism and travel writing, Tucson resident Miller’s latest project looks inward. Where Was I? A Travel Writer’s Memoir documents Miller’s exploits from the 1968 Democratic National Convention to the chaos…
Lost Horizon
On impulse one Sunday before parkinson’s and after Thanksgiving, we decided to be tourists, that is to say, we went for a walk in the cactus forest east of Tucson. Not just any cactus and not just any forest. The cactus was a saguaro, the plant that had been my friend since moving to the…
