Tucson Choices

Az Republic: The judge, who found grounds to withhold 10 percent of the district’s monthly state aid until it comes into compliance, said the law permits the objective instruction about the oppression of people that may result in racial resentment or ethnic solidarity.

“However, teaching oppression objectively is quite different than actively presenting material in a biased, political and emotionally charged manner, which is what occurred in (Mexican-American Studies) classes,” Kowal wrote.

The judge said such teaching Read More

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Tucson is fairing much worse than it’s western neighboring cities because of the lack of leadership, lack of economic diversification and no growth mentality.  What we’ve succeeded to do is fight growth at ever stage yet continue to grow.  The transportation infrastructure, the economic infrastructure and the leadership infrastructure has been ignored for a generation.  It may be too late for the Old Pueblo. Over the next decade the suburbs will flourish and the city core will continue to decay.  It takes leadership folks. Something sorely missing from the political and business rulers in Read More

Must be a change in the water at the Star. Brodesky explains the ‘RULES’ of the game. Could Chicago learn a thing or two from Tucson? You decide. In the Dec 15, 2011 edition of the Star he tells a little story about how you get things done in Tucson.

Josh Brodesky: We do things differently around here (wink, wink) – AZ Star
Couldn’t have said it better myself, Jerry Dixon. Threatened with default on his west-side project, his partner accusing him of improperly tapping an escrow account and missing a key construction deadline, Dixon squirmed his way to an explanation.
You see, his business partners at Senior Housing Group are “very strict Chicago attorneys who are very legalistic about everything,” he explained.
“Here, we do things a little bit differently, and that Read More

Tucson has a new Mayor with a similar platform….being business friendly. Let’s remember this statement…..

KOLD News Asked what his top priority is he says “jobs and making sure small business can do business and help entrepreneurs get going.”

Have we killed the entrepreneurial spirit?

Posted: Friday, December 2, 2011 7:00 am
by   Joe Higgins

It’s hard to pick up a newspaper or watch TV news and not see what America is going through right now. People are frustrated and political solutions seem hollow. The uncertainty coming from government has the entire U.S. economy on hold.

Despite what economic experts Read More

Now this is funny…and sad. Sort of sums it up for ya Tucson.

Walkup would’ve made a terrible weatherman. He only has one forecast: Sunny days ahead. It could be hailing and his forecast would be: Sunny days ahead. Tornados and flooding expected: Sunny days ahead.

The man described as the “the mayor straight out of central casting” is straight out of plain-speaking Iowa, where the state tree is nonexistent and Read More

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With the ASU making the top list of largest Universities in the US it’s time to step back and ask is that a good thing? We see the impacts big bloated State university budgets on the Arizona economy but what’s the point?

How many of these students that we subsidies to educate actually stay and return their investment to the taxpayers of Arizona?

What about the quality of an ASU degree? How many students start at ASU and the UofA only to fail out of classes filled with 600 students and little or no one on one support?

What types of degrees are we pushing out of Read More

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

“Over the last decade, we became a country that relied too much on what we bought and consumed.”

- President Obama, Nov. 19, 2011

“Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns.”

- President Carter, July 15, 1979

There are only two ways to look at the Obama re-election campaign right now: Either the upstart candidate Read More