Tucson rejects $250M Amazon data center due to concerns over water and energy consumption
City Council Halts Arizona Data Center Project A proposed large data center in southern Arizona is facing significant setbacks after a city council decision on Wednesday directed staff to cease all work related to the project. Known as “Project Blue,” the data center was planned to occupy 290 acres in Pima County. Although the county’s […]
Tucson district faces a $20 million loss due to Arizona’s school choice legislation.
Tucson Unified School District Faces Enrollment Challenges The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) in Arizona is reportedly struggling financially and with student registrations following the introduction of universal school choice in the state last year. This new system has led around 4,000 students to opt for private schools or homeschooling using state vouchers. This shift […]
Cody Fire in Arizona burns 1,000 acres close to Tucson, leading to evacuations
A wildfire ignited Wednesday afternoon in Arizona, swiftly consuming 1,000 acres and prompting evacuation orders. Dubbed the Cody fire, it started around 3:30 PM local time in the Coronado National Forest, near Tucson, and rapidly spread within six hours. Residents in certain areas of Oracle were ordered to evacuate. Additional zones around Oracle and the […]
journalist 10 people Tucson rally affiliated mystery illness
About 20 people who attended a Trump rally in Tucson, Arizona last week reported mysterious symptoms after the rally, including blurred vision and facial swelling. It's still not clear what happened, but many are speculating that it may have been a chemical attack. Could the strange illnesses that afflicted attendees be the result of further […]
Tucson Isn’t Diverse Enough to Attract Big, Rich Companies
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Tucson can’t win. Although the city is 43% Latino, it isn’t diverse enough to attract big, rich companies. It will have to accept its fate of having a poverty rate twice the national average, along with a corresponding high crime rate, substandard K-12 schools, and college graduates who leave for more prosperous […]
Tucson Adopts Bars-on-Windows Policing
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Will Tucsonans finally be shaken out of their apathy? TUCSON – With its new policing policy, the City of Tucson might become the dystopia that New York City was in the 1980s. As background, I moved from Phoenix to metro New York in 1981, when the Big Apple was rotting. […]
Tucson Is the Authentic San Francisco
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes TUCSON – San Francisco and the larger Bay Area, including Silicon Valley, are collectively known as the nation’s center of progressivism, or left-liberalism. But metro Tucson deserves that reputation much more than the Bay Area. Both Tucson and San Francisco have been controlled for decades by one party, the Democrat Party. Both […]
Does Tucson Deserve Similar Grades as Baltimore?
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes What comes to mind when you think of Baltimore? What comes to my mind is high crime, high poverty, widespread blight, a corrupt one-party government, and the TV series “The Wire,” which is set in Baltimore. What comes to mind when you think of my adopted hometown of Tucson? ADVERTISEMENT […]
Tucson Gets Bad News From Amazon
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The city gets fifteen-dollar jobs from Amazon while other cities get the company’s six-figure jobs. Local news outlets were all aflutter about Amazon recently announcing that it would be hiring hundreds of workers at $15.50 per hour for its sortation center near the Tucson airport. That’s actually bad news. What […]
Tucson v. Arlington on Immigration and Amazon
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Musings and questions from a left-wing socialist who is also a right-wing supremacist. Americans are so divided on immigration and other issues that one risks being typecast as either a left-wing socialist or a right-wing supremacist for daring to send something around that one side or the other dislikes. Given that […]