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 […]
Tucson Keeps Missing the Bigger Picture
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes That’s especially so on immigration, Amazon, and the minimum wage. The Tucson establishment often misses the bigger picture in the pursuit of transitory feel-good measures. Take the subjects of immigration, Amazon, and the minimum wage—subjects that I don’t have ideological or partisan heartburn over but do care that Tucson is […]
Tucson Is Heading Down the Path of Other Failing Leftist Cities with Its Climate Action Plan
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, multiple government officials seized the opportunity to grab more power. Perhaps chief among them were the Tucson city council and Mayor Regina Romero, who exploited the moment by declaring a “climate emergency.” Now, the city of Tucson has finalized its plan […]
Woke Netflix Shuns Macon and Tucson
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The company’s woke employees don’t see the irony of being headquartered in wealthy Los Gatos. The Wall Street Journal ran a news story recently about demonstrations at Netflix in response to comedian Dave Chappelle’s supposed transgressions against transsexuals. Here’s an excerpt: “In a list of demands sent to Netflix […]
Improving Tucson with Buzzwords
If buzzwords were effective at urban renewal, Tucson would be the most prosperous city in the nation. A recent news story from 13 News was about the widening of Grant Rd. between Tucson Blvd. and Alvernon Way. It quoted some local residents on what they would like to see along the stretch. The comments included […]
As the University of Arizona Goes, so Goes Tucson
As the University of Arizona goes, so goes Tucson, the city where the university is located. As Tucson goes, so goes the University of Arizona (UA). Things haven’t been going very well for either of them. Both have been operating well below their potential for a long time, and both are suffering from problems that […]
Tucson Reclaims Position as Busiest Migrant Border Crossing Sector
After a brief lull from previous migrant surges, the Tucson sector has regained its No. 1 position for migrant encounters along the southwest border with Mexico. Apprehensions of migrants crossing the border illegally between ports of entry have surged to about 7,400 this week. Apprehensions in the San Diego sector have fallen to just over […]
A Shocking Sight in Tucson
Something was seen in the city that is common in other cities but rare in Tucson. My wife and I saw a shocking sight on a recent trip to the Barnes and Noble bookstore on East Broadway Blvd. in the City of Tucson. The bookstore’s parking lot was crumbling, unkempt, and devoid of any landscaping. […]