The Tucson Weekly editorial board has officially endorsed in the LD28 State House race, and the news is good:
“We’re going with Steve Farley, for the same reasons we endorsed him in last year’s City Council race. Farley is a policy wonk who gives a lot of thought to the issues and comes up with imaginative [...]

It’s time to celebrate! We’re living in a new era for Tucson.
After many years of hard work on the part of so many people on so many sides of the issue, our community came together on Tuesday and said YES to a balanced, regional transportation plan that will revolutionize our transit system with dramatic increases [...]

Most of you know that the RTA regional transportation plan election is coming up on May 16. I and many other citizens from all different parts of the political spectrum have been working for the last three years to develop regional consensus. We finally have a plan that we can all support, and the endorsements [...]

Perhaps you noticed the opinion cover story in today’s Star on “an expert’s close analysis” showing that, contrary to decades of study to the contrary, suburban sprawl is good for us and should be encouraged.
Too bad Jim Kiser, who wrote this column, didn’t check out the background of his source: Robert Bruegmann, a professor [...]

I went to the Urban Heat Island workshop yesterday, which was very well attended (by city staff and members of the public alike) and had quite a few useful suggestions for how we all can do our own part to reduce global warming in our own backyard, and little tidbits like a list of trees [...]

The September report on SunTran bus performance is now out, and it shows that September’s ridership is up 6.5% over last September, as Tucsonans discover that taking the bus is cheaper and more convenient than taking your car back & forth to work and filling its tank for $60 a week. Revenues are up more [...]

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 [...]

It was announced last week that Google will be expanding into the Phoenix area, where it will provide more than 600 high-wage, high-tech jobs to boost the economy of our neighbors to the north.
Now, the Arizona Republic and East Valley Tribune are reporting that various Maricopa County cities are competing over who will house 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 [...]