It’s hard to believe that it’s been nine years since those gunshots rang out on a clear Saturday morning in Tucson, taking six lives and forever changing many others. This week, associate editor Jeff Gardner writes about how the friends of the youngest victim of the shooting, 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green, are honoring her in the year she would have graduated high school. Meanwhile, staff reporter Austin Counts looks at the ongoing efforts to reduce gun violence. And in this week’s City Week column, calendar editor Emily Dieckman rounds up some of this weekend’s Beyond events to honor those lost in the shooting.
In our feature story, I take a look at the major issues on the agenda at the Arizona Legislature, which gets back to work next week. The state is enjoying good economic times, which means there’s a lot of money available, so lawmakers will be fighting over whether to cut taxes or spend the money on schools, roads and other needs while we have it.
Elsewhere in the book: Columnist Tom Danehy had quite a tortilla crisis on Christmas; arts writer Margaret Regan recounts some of the history of Rancho Linda Vista, which is being celebrated with a show at Tohono Chul Park; managing editor Logan Burtch-Buus talks to a celebrity video gamer about his new low-cal cookbook; comedy correspondent Linda Ray previews the upcoming Fringe Festival; movie critic Bob Grimm gets into the trenches with his review of 1917; XOXO columnist Xavier Otero has details on the Tucson Jazz Fest and all the other music happening this week; and there’s plenty more in our pages, so get to reading.
— Jim Nintzel
Executive Editor
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This article appears in Jan 9-15, 2020.
You should have the integrity to interview people and print the TRUTH of how the Tucson City Council, shamefully, used the January 9, 2011 shooting as an excuse to unlawfully silence public criticism of local officials and to promulgate what they called the “Civility Accord.”
The FACTS are NOT in dispute, and are set forth is a series of documents from an ongoing case now awaiting resolution in U.S. District Court.
Why do these idiots think expanding background checks will stop nut jobs? Laughner passed one before he went on his rampage along with another TX church mass shooter.
This any many other reasons you cannot talk to the left about gun control, its like wiping before you poop, they just don’t make any sense.
Guns are coming into the US from cartels south of the border. A wall would help…but no let’s all punish the innocent.
She has all their blood on her hands. She was sent letters to both offices and the Police Cheif as well as Sherriff advised her to have security at her Congress on your corner event. Instead a 9 year old lost her life because of her gun free liberal BS. Her husband too is a liar of purpose attempting to defraud Diamond Back he didnt run last cycle because it was front and center of bad press. WE ALL NEED TO REMIND THE PUBLIC OF THESE FACT UNTIL THEY BOTH DISAPPEAR!