Pima County Public Library officials have decided to “table” the draft of the plan that would close three branches by the end of the year, Library Director Amber Mathewson said in a memo to the…
In 1999, Tucson voters approved Rio Nuevo as an engine to crank up Downtown redevelopment. The plan was to draw a district within which half the increase in sales tax funds would get diverted into…
The city of Tucson has made a pattern of wasting resources and taxpayer money on expensive, inefficient, and dangerous responses to homelessness, instead of creating and funding actual models of care that would help houseless…
How about some happy thoughts about self-rule on this Democracy Day? We’ve spent years now with shortened breath, fearing a future in which party takes over and savages America’s core freedoms under something akin to…
Bold zoning changes are being proposed for the Tucson City Council’s consideration. Plus, a sales tax election looms in March, Sahuarita takes up prayer and more from local government meetings around Tucson. A University of…
State Senator Brian Fernandez and his Republican challenger Michelle Altherr clashed over education spending, water use, housing and immigration policy during an online debate Thursday night moderated by Tucson Sentinel reporter Jim Nintzel. Altherr said she…