What we've covered this week
By Jim Nintzel
Aug 6, 2020
Pima County increases COVID testing and tracing
By Jeff Gardner
Aug 6, 2020
TOO EARLY FOR HALLOWEEN
Trailing in the polls, Sen. Martha McSally tries
on an ill-fitting moderate and pragmatic
persona
By Jim Nintzel
Aug 6, 2020
After battling off a demon succubus, Tom has a lot to think about
By Tom Danehy
Aug 6, 2020
Federal banking law hinders a blossoming industry
By David Abbott
Aug 6, 2020
What's happened this week
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 30, 2020
Sheriff candidate’s daughter makes horrific
claims as primary approaches
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jul 30, 2020
Time to decide the nominees for the November
general
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 30, 2020
What started out as an impromptu goodbye party has turned into a nightmare that doesn’t seem to end
By Austin Counts
Jul 30, 2020
Anti-pot prohibitionists sue to keep
recreational use prop off November ballot
By Austin Counts
Jul 30, 2020
Niki Bolze Tilicki thought her summer at home was going to be isolated and boring. Then she got sick.
By April A. Burge as experienced and told by Niki Bolze Tilicki
Jul 29, 2020
Supporters of the prop that would legalize recreational mariuana have a lot more money than opponents, but to get to the ballot, they’ll have to survive a court challenge
By Austin Counts
Jul 23, 2020
The races for Pima County constable fall far
down on the primary ballot. Here’s why you
should pay attention this year.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jul 23, 2020
LET’S PAY LESS ATTENTION
TO THE NUMBERS AND MORE
ATTENTION TO THE TRENDS. AND
MASK UP!
By Tom Danehy
Jul 23, 2020
A sign on the glass out front clearly states all customers must
wear a mask
By Brian Smith
Jul 23, 2020
Fact checkers continue to call BS on McSally’s
healthcare claims.
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 23, 2020
What news occurred this week
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 23, 2020
The stories we covered this week
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 16, 2020
A second episode of a death in TPD custody
surfaced last week
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jul 16, 2020
Tucson City Council repeals ordinance that
could have limited filming of cops
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jul 16, 2020
Three Democrats want to be the next county attorney as a national movement for criminal-justice reform takes center stage
By Austin Counts
Jul 16, 2020
The Pima County Attorney’s race is heating up as the candidates—and their allies—fiercely try
to discredit each other as mail-in ballots hit mailboxes last week
By Austin Counts
Jul 16, 2020
This week's news
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 9, 2020
Parents will need to prepare themselves for having kids around the house when the school year starts
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jul 9, 2020
Last Thursday, Mayor Regina Romero alerted Tucsonans via Twitter she was urging City Manager Mike Ortega to revoke a permit
By Austin Counts
Jul 9, 2020
It's past time to take down Tucson's Pancho Villa statue
By Tom Danehy
Jul 9, 2020
Smart and Safe Arizona filed 420,000 signatures with the Arizona Secretary of State's Office on July 1
By Austin Counts
Jul 9, 2020
Some of the finer medicine you’ll find at your local dispensaries
Jul 9, 2020
By David Abbott
Jul 9, 2020
The COVID News We Covered This Week
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 2, 2020
Things Don't Look So Good for McSally
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 2, 2020
Happy Independence Day! Early Voting Starts Next Week!
Jul 2, 2020
A thing of hate
By Brian Smith
Jul 2, 2020
An update on extended closures
By Logan Burtch-Buus
Jul 2, 2020
By Brian Smith
Jun 28, 2020
A glimpse at the news covered throughout the week
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 25, 2020
The Bighorn Fire has devoured more than 80,000 acres in the Santa Catalina Mountains. What will the sky island look like when the smoke clears?
By Jeff Gardner
Jun 25, 2020
Prosecutor seeking top spot in Pima County
Attorney’s Office has several letters of
reprimand in his personnel file
By Austin Counts
Jun 25, 2020
Residents of Pima County required to cover
their faces in public to combat spread of
COVID-19
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jun 25, 2020
Whether you get evicted in Pima County
depends on where you live
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jun 25, 2020
DACA gets a reprieve, but Trump vows to make another attempt to end the program for
undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jun 25, 2020
THE PIMA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IS
GOING WAY TOO EASY ON PEOPLE WHO
WON’T WEAR MASKS
By Tom Danehy
Jun 25, 2020
Keeping your dog safe from rattlesnakes during the summer
By Jeff Gardner
Jun 25, 2020
The Future of Helping Dogs on the Loose
By Kristen Hassen
Jun 25, 2020
You can prevent separation anxiety
in your dogs
By Steve Farley
Jun 25, 2020
Keeping your furry friends safe from the
summer heat
By Logan Burtch-Buus
Jun 25, 2020
Boasting one of the most diverse selections
of MMJ products in Tucson at reasonable
prices, The Prime Leaf makes sure its customers
leave happy and feeling hooked-up
By Austin Counts
Jun 25, 2020
The news and events that made the week
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 18, 2020
The Tucson City Council plans to review a controversial ordinance
By Austin Counts
Jun 18, 2020
Festivals are off the list, but there are ways to have a good time despite the outbreak
By Jeff Gardner and Emily Dieckman
Jun 18, 2020
How to have fun this summer while
minimizing the risk of COVID-19
By Jeff Gardner
Jun 18, 2020
But follow these safety tips to get home
safely
By David Abbott
Jun 18, 2020
There’s plenty of medicine on the shelves at local dispensaries
By Austin Counts
Jun 18, 2020
Southern AZ Weekly COVID-19 Roundup
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 11, 2020
Tucson’s deaf and hard-of-hearing community speaks out about the increased difficulty they face communicating with the public due to COVID-19 masks and other precautions taken during the pandemic.
By Austin Counts
Jun 11, 2020
Masks, protests and even a kind word for George Will: What a time to be alive
By Tom Danehy
Jun 11, 2020
Don’t Shoot the Messenger
By Brian Smith
Jun 11, 2020
Legalizing cannabis in November can help equalize racial disparity
By Nick Meyers
Jun 11, 2020
The COVID-19 Centric Stories We Covered
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 4, 2020
Republican Martha McSally’s Senate campaign
is in a tailspin
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 4, 2020
Arizona under curfew order following protests in Phoenix and Tucson
By Austin Counts
Jun 4, 2020
Public schools and the UA look to reopen in the fall
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jun 4, 2020
As confirmed cases of COVID-19 continue to climb, voters are split on whether AZ is
reopening too soon but want to visit family and friends again
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 4, 2020
Acclaimed MMJ Doc Heather Moroso is creating
new wellness center
By David Abbott
Jun 4, 2020
Pomp and Troubled Circumstance
By Jim Nintzel
May 28, 2020
Celebrating This Year's Graduating Seniors
By Logan Burtch-Buus, Jeff Gardner, Tom Danehy
May 28, 2020
Cannabis advocates should recognize that even if they don’t think the proposed ballot prop is perfect, it will let people avoid jail time for smoking weed
By Nick Meyers
May 28, 2020
A note from the editor on the contents of this issue.
By Jim Nintzel
May 21, 2020
The COVID-19 happenings from this week.
By Jim Nintzel
May 21, 2020
Gov. Doug Ducey has lifted the stay-at-home order, but health officials advise continued precaution
By Jim Nintzel
May 21, 2020
A call to duty in pandemic lockdown
By Brian Smith
May 21, 2020
Arizona Supreme Court rejects effort to allow electronic signatures for Arizona initiative campaigns, including an effort to ask voters to legalize recreational cannabis use for adults
By Austin Counts
May 21, 2020
Longtime legalization advocate dies at 61
By Nick Meyers
May 21, 2020
Curve Balls
By Jim Nintzel
May 14, 2020
This week in COVID-19 News
By Jim Nintzel
May 14, 2020
Tom really, really misses sports, and esports don't count.
By Tom Danehy
May 14, 2020
When the state enters crisis mode, priorities become clear
By Nick Meyers
May 14, 2020
Should I stay or should I go?
By Jim Nintzel
May 7, 2020
Retail will begin to open next week. Then what?
May 7, 2020
Weekly happenings surrounding COVID-19
By Jim Nintzel
May 7, 2020
The outbreak is putting state and local governments into financial freefall
By Jim Nintzel
May 7, 2020
Caregivers can receive on-the-job training after Governor's order
By Austin Counts
May 7, 2020
After taking off the goggles, how bad are Harvest’s alleged indiscretions, really?
By Nick Meyers
May 7, 2020
Day of Decision
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 30, 2020
Some of the stories we covered this week
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 30, 2020
Mental health and substance abuse providers relying on telehealth during COVID-19
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Apr 30, 2020
Updates on election coverage
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 30, 2020
Tom just can't keep living this way - and he doesn't think you can, either
By Tom Danehy
Apr 30, 2020
Watch what you think you know about coronavirus and treatments
By Nick Meyers
Apr 30, 2020
Muchas Gracias
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 23, 2020
The COVID-19 stories we covered this week.
By Logan Burtch-Buus
Apr 23, 2020
Your federal races in Southern Arizona are shaping up.
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 23, 2020
Grounded: Are the kids alright?
By Brian Smith
Apr 23, 2020
initiative campaigns to request use of electronic signature gathering
By Austin Counts
Apr 23, 2020
Happy 4/20
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 16, 2020
As the COVID-19 outbreak forces the economy to a grinding halt, more and more people across the country are losing their jobs.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Apr 16, 2020
The benefits of tinctures
By Jeff Gardner
Apr 16, 2020
While it's not the cannapocalypse, patients are definitely stocking up on their medicine.
By Austin Counts
Apr 16, 2020
Donald Trump as Wartime President: A Sick Joke in Our Sick Nation
By Tom Danehy
Apr 16, 2020
Some products to consider for your medicinal experience
By Staff report
Apr 16, 2020
And the winners are...
By Weekly Staff
Apr 16, 2020
It took longer than it should have, but Gov. Doug Ducey finally narrowed his list of businesses that were allowed to remain open under his statewide stay-at-home order.
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 9, 2020
Local businesses in Southern Arizona are pitching in and switching production to help the healthcare industry as well as the public amid shortages of food, medical supplies and lodging during the coronavirus pandemic.
By Austin Counts
Apr 9, 2020
Facilities close, hikers inundate trails
By David Abbott
Apr 9, 2020
What if home isn't the safest place for you?
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Apr 9, 2020
As Arizona officially goes into lockdown, cannabis dispensaries continue to operate, having found a rhythm amidst the outbreak.
By Nick Meyers
Apr 9, 2020
First of all, stay home if you can.
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 2, 2020
Keep Yourself, Your Family and Your Community Safe From This Outbreak
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 2, 2020
If you're wondering when we can all get back to normal, we have some bad news for you: Nobody really knows for sure.
By Jeff Gardner
Apr 2, 2020
A Pandemic Day at Circle K
By Brian Smith
Apr 2, 2020
Pima County Supervisor Richard Elías died Saturday, March 28, at age 61.
By Austin Counts
Apr 2, 2020
Tom goes shopping for toilet paper and reflects on life in the age of coronavirus.
By Tom Danehy
Apr 2, 2020
Keeping up with COVID
By Nick Meyers
Apr 2, 2020
A letter to you, our readers, from our President.
By Jason Joseph
Mar 26, 2020
As the confirmed cases of COVID-19 rise across the state, there’s a lot of uncertainty out there.
By Jim Nintzel
Mar 26, 2020
The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has put a growing number of people out of work and Gov. Doug Ducey has extended school closures through at last April 10.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Mar 26, 2020
Dr. James Galloway is a former assistant U.S. Surgeon General, a cardiovascular medical doctor and a public health expert.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Mar 26, 2020
Local child care is on shaky ground as more Tucson families are staying home to fight the spread of coronavirus after Gov. Doug Ducey’s order that school closures would continue through at least April 10.
By Austin Counts
Mar 26, 2020
While many businesses in major metropolitan areas have closed their doors for the foreseeable future, medical cannabis patients don’t have to worry
By Nick Meyers
Mar 26, 2020
By Brian Smith
Mar 21, 2020
In my career as a journalist, I've covered some stories that have changed our community dramatically: The aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the 2011 mass shootings at Gabby Giffords' Congress on Your Corner. But I've never seen a week like this...
By Jim Nintzel
Mar 19, 2020
The good, the bad and the deplorable of state legislators on cannabis
By Nick Meyers
Mar 19, 2020
“The Ringer,” the first track on Eminem’s 2018 album, Kamikaze, includes a line that piqued Buzzfeed reporter Jason Leopold’s curiosity: the rapper claimed the Secret Service visited him due to some controversial lyrics about Ivanka Trump.
By Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mar 19, 2020
Maybe someday in the distant future, the prevailing wisdom will be that it was prudent to have shut down the NCAAs.
By Tom Danehy
Mar 19, 2020
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Superintendent of Public Education Kathy Hoffman announced Sunday afternoon that all Arizona public schools are closing at least through March 27.
By Logan Burtch-Buus
Mar 19, 2020
What are those crazy criminals up to this week?
By Anna Mirocha
Mar 19, 2020
What a difference four days can make.
By Logan Burtch-Buus
Mar 19, 2020
It's a damn shame the Tucson Festival of Books has been canceled, but with authors worried about traveling in the Age of COVID-19, it sure sounds like organizers had no choice. Still, it's one of my favorite events of the year and I was looking forward to meeting a bunch of terrific authors.
By Jim Nintzel
Mar 12, 2020
For most people, the most exciting part of legalizing cannabis is the ability to freely consume a substance less harmful than cigarettes or alcohol. For others, it may be the ability to go to school, get a job or buy a house.
By Nick Meyers
Mar 12, 2020
It's going to take a decade or more to clean away the stench left behind by a one-term Trump Administration. If he gets another term, the America that we love may well cease to exist.
By Tom Danehy
Mar 12, 2020
Nude, Unglued, and Not a Prude / She Finally Heard the Light
By Anna Mirocha
Mar 12, 2020
Everybody has a novel in them, right? How many people have you heard say, “One of these days I’m going to write a novel?”
By Leo W. Banks
Mar 12, 2020
A deep dive into Charlie Spillar and who he was.
By Brian Smith
Mar 12, 2020
Tucson Weekly columnist Brian Smith and his wife, Maggie, are rolling out an independent publishing company, R&R Press.
By Jeff Gardner
Mar 12, 2020
A pair of recent polls show McSally continuing to trail her Democratic challenger, retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly.
Mar 12, 2020
Hours after local organizers canceled this weekend’s Tucson Festival of Books over coronavirus concerns, the Pima County Health Department announced the first “presumptive” case of coronavirus in unincorporated Pima County.
By Jeff Gardner
Mar 12, 2020
U.S. Representative Ann Kirkpatrick met with constituents during a one-on-one event, Congress On Your Corner, at the Murphy-Wilmot Public Library on Saturday, Feb. 29.
By Austin Counts
Mar 5, 2020
Earlier this week, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and the city council reviewed the Tucson Transportation and Mobility Department’s E-Scooter Pilot Program Report during their March 3 study session. The six-month pilot program is scheduled to end March 12, if the mayor and council vote not to continue.
By Austin Counts
Mar 5, 2020
Staff reporter Austin Counts is taking you for a spin through the pros and cons of those little cycles in this edition as the Tucson City Council prepares to determine the fate of the scooters following a six-month trial period.
By Jim Nintzel
Mar 5, 2020
A junkie nabbed driving while high didn’t let his extreme impairment stop him from pretending he wasn’t—resulting in a long night for the cop who caught him, according to a University of Arizona Police Department report.
By Anna Mirocha
Mar 5, 2020
Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing wearable technology to analyze sweat, which may remove the need to draw blood to learn about the body’s functions in certain situations.
By Jeff Gardner
Mar 5, 2020
Steve Farley became the newest CEO of The Humane Society of Southern Arizona on Wednesday, Feb. 19, and hopes to use the lessons he’s learned in his numerous previous roles to continue the organization’s “vision of a community in which all pets are cared for and loved.” Farley views leading the Humane Society as the next step in his public service.
By Jeff Gardner
Mar 5, 2020
Israel has lost its way and is in real danger of losing whatever international support if once had. I, for one, would like to be able to root for it again.
By Tom Danehy
Mar 5, 2020
Cannabis advocates are used to the common refrain from opponents: Cannabis is more dangerous today because it’s so much stronger than what hippies were smoking in the ’60s.
By Nick Meyers
Mar 5, 2020
This week's cover story features Megan Maltos and her mother, Jill, who run Danswest, a local dance school that has been teaching kids the ups and downs of everything from ballet to hip-hop for decades. Plus, we celebrate The Loft's Peggy Johnson and check out what's new in food, music and news.
By Jim Nintzel
Feb 27, 2020
A homophobic drifter-type using University of Arizona facilities was kicked off campus after drifting way too far in a random interaction with a stranger, according to a UA Police Department report.
By Anna Mirocha
Feb 27, 2020
Peggy Johnson grew up loving film, but it wouldn’t be until after a 25-year career as a reporter with Arizona Public Media that she would helm the celebrated role she’s known for today: executive director of The Loft Cinema.
Johnson will be awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tucson Local Media Women of Influence awards on March 4.
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 27, 2020
You’d figure that having done Lent for all these years that it would get easier. I’ve certainly learned from some of my mistakes so at least I’m not making things worse as the years go by. Here's my five toughest Lents.
By Tom Danehy
Feb 27, 2020
A mother-daughter team teaches kids to find their own rhythm.
By Brian Smith
Feb 27, 2020
As the Safe and Smart Arizona Act initiative effort gains traction, state lawmakers are considering legalizing cannabis in the state legislature.
By Nick Meyers
Feb 27, 2020
Contributor Tom Danehy makes the case that this is the best women’s basketball team the university has ever seen in this week’s cover story. Plus, we have plenty of music, food, arts and news stories for you this week.
By Jim Nintzel
Feb 20, 2020
A popular TV crime show may or may not have contributed to the corruption of a minor college student clearly drinking way more than she could handle (despite her confident claims otherwise), according to a University of Arizona Police Department report.
By Anna Mirocha
Feb 20, 2020
On Sunday, Jan. 26, a crowd of more than 1,000 gathered on a remote bridge in rural Arizona to protest the construction of a border wall across the San Pedro River, the last major undammed river in the Southwest.
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 20, 2020
Tohono O’odham nation Chairman Ned Norris said the “controlled blasting” for a border wall that will ultimately cut through his reservation is just the latest example of the federal government ignoring its duty to consult with tribes.
By MacKinley Lutes-Adlhoch, Cronkite News
Feb 20, 2020
Foreshadowing the reaction of some people today who love their Social Security and Medicare but blanch at the mention of socialism, Sinclair reflected on his failed race with, “The American People will take socialism, but they won’t take the label.”
By Tom Danehy
Feb 20, 2020
I’ve been a basketball fan for nearly six decades and a Wildcat fan for four, but rarely have I had this kind of reaction. There was the Sean Elliott Final Four team in 1988 and the national championship team in 1997. And now, it’s the UA women.
By Tom Danehy
Feb 20, 2020
In the early years of legal cannabis cultivation, dispensaries explored ways to vastly increase the concentration of THC and CBD in their strains. After years of development though, the focus has shifted to increase the variety of consumption methods and fine-tuning cannabinoid profiles.
By Nick Meyers
Feb 20, 2020
The Spring Arts guide is here to inform you of what's going on in Tucson's vibrant arts scene. Plus, we look at the city's new transportation plan, who's dropping out of Pima County races and plenty of food, music and movie news.
By Jim Nintzel
Feb 13, 2020
A vegan collegiate believed his peers were subjecting him to secret psychological torture for eschewing animal products in his diet, according to a University of Arizona Police Department report.
By Anna Mirocha
Feb 13, 2020
The city of Tucson’s Transportation and Mobility Department announced the start of its 20-year transportation plan called Move Tucson during a public meeting Wednesday evening at the Fox Theatre.
By Austin Counts
Feb 13, 2020
University of Arizona hockey is no longer on thin ice.
After years of decline and near collapse, the team has re-emerged stronger because of re-energized organizers, increased media exposure and more wins.
By Sebastian Janik
Feb 13, 2020
Candidates are having second thoughts about running for the Board of Supervisors this year.
By Jim Nintzel
Feb 13, 2020
Well, all you Trump cultists who used to be part of the now-defunct Republican Party, that whirlwind is coming your way. Oh, it’s a long way off because the now-totally unrestrained Donald Trump must first lay waste to America and democracy and Mitt Romney. But when he runs out of rivers to pollute, syntax to butcher, and brown-skinned families to destroy, he’ll come for you.
By Tom Danehy
Feb 13, 2020
If you watched last Friday night’s Democratic presidential debate ahead of this week’s New Hampshire primary, you saw debate moderator Lindsey Davis light up candidate Pete Buttigieg over the increased arrests of black citizens for marijuana offenses during the eight years he’s been mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
By Austin Counts
Feb 13, 2020
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