Tucson Citizen

Citizen Journalist Dennis Gilman and His Video Camera Take on the Valley of the Sun

Jared Loughner Kept Photos of Bill Clinton, Raul Grijalva, and Possibly Ed Pastor

Jared Loughner kept photos of President Bill Clinton and Congressman Raul Grijalva, and possibly a photograph of Congressman Ed Pastor, according to the newly released documents.The detail is included is a report from a Pima County Sheriff's Department detective in the thousands of pages of document ... More >>

Eddie Basha Jr. Spent Golden Years Fighting Greedy UFCW Labor Union; Philanthropist Grocer Dead at 75

Eddie Basha Jr., an Arizona legend who used profits from his successful grocery chain to fund countless charity causes, spent the last years of his life fighting allegations of racism, mistreating employees and even hurting babies by a labor union bent on domination. Though Basha, the grandson of A ... More >>

Penzone Benefits from Arpaio's Latest Attack Ad

Mike Stauffer-Supporter DeeDee Blase's Sick, Twisted Lies

See also: Mike Stauffer's Biggest Supporter Is a Wrecking Ball in Sheriff's Race See also: Joe Arpaio, DeeDee Blase, and Her Shrill Attacks on Paul Penzone See also: Joe Arpaio on the Run from Paul Penzone, Mike Stauffer the Goat in New Poll (w/Update) See also: Joe Arpaio Stooge Mike Stauffer a "Re ... More >>

Mike Stauffer's Biggest Supporter Is a Wrecking Ball in Sheriff's Race

Joe Arpaio, DeeDee Blase, and Her Shrill Attacks on Paul Penzone

Local activist and Mike Stauffer for Sheriff supporter DeeDee Blase has been of great assistance to Sheriff Joe Arpaio of late. Sure, she's garnered a spoonful of media interest for protesting the church Arpaio attends in Fountain Hills, along with a handful of others. But that's nothing compared ... More >>

Jon Justice, Wingnut Lip-Flapper, and the Lefties

The boycott of Tucson's right-wing shock jock Jon Justice of 104.1 FM is on like Donkey-Kong.Seems he ticked off talented and tireless Three Sonorans blogger David Abie Morales, who is leading a boycott effort against Justice online. According to Morales, he's gotten one advertiser to bolt from Just ... More >>

Humane Society Offering $2,500 Reward For Arizona Cow Killer

www.pyzam.com​There is a cow killer on the loose and the Humane Society of the United States is offering $2,500 to bring the culprit to justice.The Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Humane Society are looking for the person responsible for murdering a cow at the privately owned Sierra Bonit ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Reporter Claims She Was Stiffed By Gannett When Paper Went Bust

www.seattleweekly.com​A former journalist at the now-Web-only Tucson Citizen is claiming that Gannett, the paper's parent company, didn't live up to its end of the bargain after the 138-year-old paper went bust back in May.Alice Flick, the longtime TC scribe, who wrote under the byline A.J. ... More >>

Tribune Web Site's Demise Means Past Articles Will be Tougher to Find

  ​ The impending death of the East Valley Tribune means fewer news articles in the future about things that go on in the Phoenix metro area. But it's even worse than that: The planned shuttering of the Trib's Web portal in two months, coinciding with the closure of the physical prope ... More >>

Sheriff's Office Loses Again in Tucson Citizen Public Records Case; Must Pay Lawyer's Fees

Dennis Wilenchik The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office's refusal to turn over public records as required by the law has once again cost taxpayers. The Arizona Supreme Court announced today it would not consider a 2007 case between the  Tucson Citizen and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. That m ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Lawsuit Filed by State Gets Dismissed; AG's Office Says Suit Unlikely to Force Change

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard filed a motion Tuesday afternoon to have his lawsuit against the owners of the Tucson Citizen dismissed because it wouldn't accomplish anything. Goddard had already failed last week to convince a judge to force the owners, Gannett and Lee Enterprises, to keep ... More >>

Local Reporter Mark Flatten to Become Investigator for Goldwater Institute

Image: www.azpbs.org -- Horizon Journalists Roundtable Mark Flatten, an investigative reporter with the East Valley Tribune for more than 20 years, is leaving the newspaper on June 5 to start work as an investigator for the Goldwater Institute.Flatten helped the newspaper on many of its biggest stor ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Owners Could be Forced to Publish Paper; Judge to Rule Tueday

After a 90-minute hearing in federal court, Judge Raner Collins said he will decide Tuesday whether to order the corporate owners of the Tucson Citizen to keep publishing the 138-year-old newspaper.State Attorney General Terry Goddard, who accuses Gannett and Lee Enterprises of trying to monopolize ... More >>

Tucson Citizen to Print Its Final Edition On Saturday; Potential Buyer Says Gannett Screwed Over Paper

The Tucson Citizen is reporting today that it will publish its last print edition on Saturday. The 139-year-old newspaper is being closed by its parent company, Gannett, which has suffered severe drops in stock prices. The paper had been scheduled to close in March, but Gannett left it open on a da ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Tension in End Times for the 139-Year-Old Newspaper

Some employees at the Tucson Citizen believe a corporate handler planted by parent company Gannett has been charged with keeping unsavory news stories from being published in the paper's final days, says Gannett Blog this morning.In the post, a tipster relates the tale of high tension as nosy jo ... More >>

Arizona Republic and Channel 12 Employees Must Take Another Week of Unpaid Leave

  One employee of the Arizona Republic noted wryly in a Facebook status update that he was at home on a mandated, unpaid leave when news came of a second round of Gannett furloughs. The new mandate requires most of Gannett's 41,000 employees -- including those at the state's ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Publishing on "Day-to-Day" Basis While Potential Sale of Paper is Negotiated

  Today, Tucson Citizen employees have a job and the paper's customers have something to read. As for tomorrow -- wait and see. That's going to be the pattern for the next few days as the Tucson Citizen, the state's oldest newspaper, publishes on a "day-to-day" basis while waitin ... More >>

Four Inmate Homicide Deaths (at Least) in State Prisons in 2008; High Number Comes After Employees Disciplined in '06 Murder

Four men, possibly more, were killed by other inmates in Arizona state prisons last year, an unusually high number just one year after an inmate death spurred the firing of a warden and discipline for 13 guards.AZ Department of CorrectionsSean Kelly, one of four state prisoners killed by other inmat ... More >>

Hot Links: Cardinals Headed for Super Bowl; Dutch Man Wants $400,000 in Javelina Attack; Tucson Citizen to be Shut Down if No Buyers

Super Bowl-bound: The Arizona Cardinals redeem themselves in a nerve-wracking championship game, sealing this year's season as the finest since the franchise moved to the state in '87. That's not our javelina: Tucson museum denies ownership of a javelina that attacked a Dutch dude -- he wants $40 ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Photos For Sale -- (Not Cheap) -- in Arizona Republic Bid to Make Quick Buck

The Arizona Republic's parent company, Gannett, is starting to look like the Black Knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail, losing an arm here, a leg there --- except no one's claiming these are just flesh wounds. On the heels of a companywide 10 percent cut in personnel last month, Gannett told it's ... More >>

David Modeer, Phoenix Water Director, to head Central Arizona Project

David Modeer, director of the Phoenix water department, has been tapped to become the next general manager of the Central Arizona Project. The 336-mile long system of pipelines and canals helps bring water to 80 percent of the state's population.  In a Tucson Citizen article, Modeer ... More >>

Anonymous Blogger Takes Issue With Anti-Arpaio Goldwater Report

An anonymous local political blog has been getting some right-wing attention this morning with its claim that the conservative Goldwater Institute has "gone way off the deep end" with their critical report on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Liberty's Apothecary has many problems with the Insti ... More >>

Lute Olson Retires as Wildcat's Men's Basketball Coach

The Bird shelters Pima County Legal Defender Isabel Garcia from the flak she’s received for hoisting an Arpaio piñata head

Letters from the issue of Thursday, March 6, 2008

Burn, Baby, Burn!

Butch-lesbian nativist Laine Lawless loves incinerating Mexico's flag. Is she a dangerous wacko or a proud patriot?

Bad Medicine

Locking up cold medicine makes the politicians feel good -- but it won't put a dent in Arizona's meth habit

Citizen Fame

Journalists honor their own at annual fete

The Write Stuff

Press Club honors New Times scribe

Begging Your Pardon

Fife Symington's free and Michael Hester's not. But thanks to the ex-governor's oversight, that may soon change.

Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss

The nation's largest newspaper chain buys the state's biggest paper -- but will anyone even notice the difference?

Tom and Janet's Excellent AG Venture

Tom McGovern and Janet Napolitano are running close in a cordial race for attorney general. But somebody has to win.

The Reporter As Lyricist

Letters

A Reputation in Ruins

LIGHTS! CAMERA! INACTION!BEHIND-THE -SCENES BACKBITING THREATENS ARIZONA'S CHANCES OF FILMMAKING STARDOM

WAY OFF ABBEY'S ROAD

CHUCK BOWDEN EXTOLS ARIZONA'S UNIQUE PLANTS AND ANIMALS. HIS LATEST SUBJECTS ARE WEASELS IN THREE-PIECE SUITS.

WHEN CACTUS AND CIVILIZATION COLLIDETRIFLING WITH SAGUAROS CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO ONE'S HEALTH