Letters to the editor

Pay raise debacle highlights ineptitude

'Scandal' cast performs finale live for Academy

Forget the DVR.

Cleveland area boosts efforts to find the missing

The county that includes Cleveland said Thursday it will strengthen efforts to locate missing people following the discovery of three women who said they were held captive in a home there for about a decade.

Fitz Blog: Tea parties, trolleys and diplomas

Targeting the Tea Party is wrong. I do feel targeting groups who are clearly political action fronts who shamelessly claim the “social welfare” tax exemption is the right thing to do. One lump or two with your tea?

Fitz Blog: Tooth fairies, weed and trolleys

According to a study an estimated 1, 500 jobs will be created by Arizona’s medical marijuana industry. 10, 000 in the snack food industry, 4,000 in bong manufacturing, 599 in the breath mint industry and the millionaire who owns the murine franchise. This poses the question: Was the economic…

Letters to the editor

Goldberg spouts more right-wing rhetoric

Fitz Blog: Benghazi fever

Republican lawmakers asked increasingly tough questions today as they held another day of hearings to investigate, in the words of anyone but Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), “The 935 documented lies which brought about the botched 8-year raid on Iraq which cost taxpayers $1,900,000,000,000…

Letters to the editor

Bush gets weepy for wrong reasons

Fitz Blog: This just in

More than 1 out of every 4 Tucsonans lives in Poverty which is due north of Dire Poverty and 3-streets over from Chronic Poverty. I call it the Tri-Cities because everyone is trying their best to stay afloat, which is easier said than done in this waterless desert.

Reforma: Hora de definiciones... y de enmiendas

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Los autores del proyecto de reforma a las leyes de inmigración se han comprometido públicamente a contrarrestar enmiendas que busquen debilitar la iniciativa. En las próximas horas sabrán qué tan ardua será esa tarea.

Letters to the Editor

Discrediting Basis' ranking makes no sense

Fitz Blog: Your Weekly Local News Update

The story about the ricin sent to a handful politicians is a pretty gripping crime story. Investigators were looking at an Elvis impersonator with bipolar disorder who was sparring online with a child molesting martial arts master who fronts a blues band. Or as the Pima County Sheriff’s Depa…

Letters to the editor

Fitz's account of fair shows his arrogance

Fitz Blog: Arizona moves ahead with plan to destroy public education

Fitz Blog: ASDB Troubles

The National Association of the Deaf has joined others calling for change of leadership at Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. Superintendent Hill and Board President Jones reacted with a gesture of defiance that you didn’t need to be an ASDB graduate to understand. Former…

Fitz Blog: Local tragedy

A Tucson area man won a $1 million-plus jackpot at Desert Diamond Casino playing the slots on Friday and lost it all Saturday at the Pima County Fair trying to toss rings on to coke bottles. He was unavailable for comment.

Fitz Blog: Tucson Water's New Mascot

We're Tucson Water, where blood’s thicker than water and patronage flows downhill. Before we get onto the big news of the day we'd like to respond to the Star's so-called "investigation" about some bid somewhere for something that has something to do with who cares by citing scripture.

Fitz Blog: Cosmos forgets Earth Day, planet despondent

Earth: You forgot Earth Day! Again!

Fitz Blog: Melvin to run for White House

MARS - Three-term state Sen. Al Melvin announced Monday he intends to run for President of the United States this coming year. “Although it’s not an election year I’m not going to let that malarkey stand in my way.”

Fitz Blog: Pension system unsustainable, City to ask retirees to die

With Tucson police and fire pension costs expected to rise to $42 million, the City Council voted Tuesday to create a task force to look for ways cut the costs, including asking city retirees to die "As soon as possible."

Fitz Blog: Public Art

A pair of life-size dancing women, sculpted in bronze, now adorn the Fourth Avenue underpass. The city originally commissioned a male and female dancer in 2003 but, due to budget cuts, the male was replaced with a second female who will do the same job for less pay.

Fitz Blog: ASU

Arizona State University students began voting Monday for a new mascot. The updated version of “Sparky”, resembling the masked character from “V for Vendetta”, was rejected because he looked too intelligent. The online ballot features the following 10 choices:

Fitz Blog: Principles and principals

4 TUSD Principals may lose their jobs over their failure to reverse effects of chronic poverty in hellholes with underfunded and understaffed schools dealing with the regulatory burdens and the special needs populations that Charter schools can kick out the door. The Governor approved of the…