My wife Regina and I were two of more than ten thousand who took part in the annual Cesar Chavez March today from Pueblo High to Rudy Garcia Park in Tucson’s Southside. I hope you were able to be there as well.
There was so much peaceful power and energy emanating from the crowd. People of [...]

Back last June, I took a rather lonely stand on this blog calling for the relocation of the Reid Park Zoo elephants to an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee where they could stand a chance of a longer, happier life among other freed elephants.
At the time, that was like taking a stand against Mom and [...]

There was a great series of articles in the Arizona Republic last week, reporting the results of a statewide poll on Arizona issues. The results were really encouraging for those of us who feel that progressive values are mainstream values.
Most amazing was the finding that 81% of registered voters statewide (of all parties, in all [...]

This week, there is a conference going on in Denver hosted by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil, where industry experts are sharing information about how quickly we are all running out of oil, and what happens as this foundation of the world’s economy dramatically declines.
We at the People’s Policy Project have [...]

A lot of folks, particularly in the business community, breathed a major sigh of relief this year when Davis-Monthan Air Force Base was spared by the Defense Department’s latest round of Base Realignment & Closure (BRAC). The base is a huge contributor to our local economy with money and jobs.
But at what cost? The [...]

We all know we have a transportation problem here in the Old Pueblo. Lots of problems; not enough money to fix them.
I support much of the RTA draft plan, which will dramatically expand our transit capacity, frequency, and efficiency. But the half-cent-sales tax that funds it will only go so far. We need to maintain [...]

I attended the 8th annual Wingspan fundraising dinner on Saturday night along with more than 1100 other people who together raised almost a quarter-million dollars for LGBT support services. The place was full of bright, passionate, loving people of all sexual orientations enjoying each other’s company in the heart of a town that welcomes lesbians, [...]