Crude oil prices peaked over $70 a barrel for the first time on Monday. Gas prices could be soaring past $3 a gallon by this weekend, and $4 or $5 by January. The devastation wrought on the people of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina has also destroyed a large part of the nation’s oil refining [...]

I’m proud to announce that the Tucson Weekly, our beloved local newsweekly, has endorsed my candidacy for City Council.
Read it now online, or if you want a hard copy, email Lorena@FriendsOFarley.com.
Spread this one all over town, folks! The Weekly endorsement makes a huge difference in Ward 6 in particular.

Wow! What an unforgettable evening. On Saturday, August 13, nearly 300 people came out to support the Farley campaign, connect with one another, and set out a progressive agenda for Tucson’s future using their left and right brains.
The spirit in the room was electric. People from 9 months to 95 years old, from all different [...]

A couple of years ago I flew former Portland Transportation Commissioner Charlie Hales to Tucson to talk to folks about the economic benefits of the Modern Streetcar and Light Rail. He talked a little about how Portland developers thought differently from those from other places.
“Most developers get up in the morning,” Charlie said, “and think, [...]

The Tucson Citizen, our afternoon daily, has strongly endorsed my candidacy for City Council. In their words,
Farley has shown that he has the vision, the ideas and the guts to put new ideas on the table and to challenge his fellow council members.

Read the whole endorsement online and pass it along to your friends. [...]

There’s been a lot of talk from my Democratic opponent that I’m a good progressive, but that she is somehow more likely to beat Fred Ronstadt in the general election. It’s time to confront that issue directly. Who really is more able to beat Fred in November?
Nina Trasoff says she is more electable because last [...]

Payday loan operations prey on the poor and keep them in poverty. There’s no other way of looking at it. You know the places… they’re on almost every streetcorner on the southside, westside, and near Davis-Monthan, preying on working families and underpaid airmen who need a little help to get by until the next paycheck. [...]

I’m gratified to have the endorsements of the Sierra Club Rincon Group and Las Adelitas, two powerful community organizations who are fighting for livability for ALL Tucsonans, and for the envinroment in which we live.
I have worked very closely with the Sierra Club and its members as we fought the City’s sprawl-encouraging, neighborhood-destroying road tax [...]