| 2009-02-17 16 migrants rescued from Phoenix cabinet shop (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110279.php PHOENIX - Police rescued 16 immigrants who were being held against their will inside a small woodworking business in a rundown Phoenix warehouse, where three workers were making cabinets as police arrived on Monday morning. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 2 ASU economics professors scoff at stimulus plan (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110277.php TEMPE - Stephen Happel won't be cheering when President Barack Obama tells Arizonans how his $787 billion economic stimulus will provide relief to one of the states hit hardest by the recession. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 ASU to shut social- work program here (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280497.php The Tucson branch of an ASU program that provides the only public social-work education in the region is scheduled to close as part of state budget cuts. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 AZ legislators are cautious on sales-tax election talk (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280487.php PHOENIX — State lawmakers from both parties are taking a guarded, if not outright wary, stance on a possible special election this spring for a temporary increase in the sales tax. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Arizona could receive $803 million in stimulus cash (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110310.php The University of Arizona could get back some of the $57 million the state cut from its budget last month if Gov. Jan Brewer applies for Arizona's portion of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Arts community to host economic revitalization forum (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110281.php The arts community will host "Economic Forum: Creative Strategies for Economic Recovery" at 6 p.m. Feb. 25 at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Camp Verde worries as state park is threatened with closure (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110291.php CAMP VERDE - Dressed in a handmade cavalry uniform, Jack Stewart gives a crisp salute to a veteran touring the adobe buildings at Fort Verde State Historical Park. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Cancer-prevention drugs are new company's hope (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280482.php After years of being told cancer prevention drugs were too risky and took too long to get approved, one University of Arizona professor knew he could get the job done. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Community calendar (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280486.php Today | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Dad wings it alone while wife serves in Iraq (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110289.php PHOENIX - Ray Taylor pulls 6-year-old Gracie's hair into two stiff braids, something he learned how to do on the Internet. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Deaths (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110274.php Compiled by M. Watt. For information call, 573-4561. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Deaths (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280478.php The deceased are from Tucson unless otherwise noted. Occupations are stated when available. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Exhibit cites challenges female doctors can face (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280526.php When Dr. Mindy Fain was applying for medical school, the vetting process included asking women whether they were going to get married and have children. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Feminist cleric plans 3 days of events (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280512.php As a feminist theologian and Christian writer, the Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock is committed to certain ideals, including respect for all people regardless of gender, race, nationality, sexual orientation or education. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Final meeting Wednesday on Fort Lowell Park Master Plan (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110286.php A final public meeting on the Fort Lowell Park Master Plan will be held Wednesday night at Morris K. Udall Regional Park. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Green Valley booster groups want their share of bed tax (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280499.php PHOENIX — Green Valley businesses want tourists to know who they are, and they're trying to change state law to make that happen. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Houston artist to share savvy with Warehouse District backers (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110283.php An artist lauded for reviving a rundown Houston street as Project Row Houses will share his insights Sunday with Tucsonans looking to transform the rundown Warehouse Arts District. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Jimmy's forecast (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280019.php A couple more Pacific storms will brush Arizona over the weekend. The first will give us just a slight chance of showers early Saturday morning. The second will come a little closer and give us a little better chance of valley rain and mountain snow showers on Monday. Warming up about midweek. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Jury selection starts today in child-death case (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280519.php Two years ago Wednesday, 4-year-old Ariana Payne's remains were found stuffed inside a plastic trash bag, a designer bag and a sealed plastic tub at a North Side storage facility. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Lawmakers cool to Brewer’s ideas for budget fix (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110259.php PHOENIX - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's reported willingness to contemplate holding a spring special election on controversial budget proposals has something for leaders on both sides of the Legislature's political divide to dislike. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Legislator wants to protect university tuition from budget raids (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110276.php PHOENIX - With the Legislature searching for ways to close a gaping budget deficit for the coming fiscal year, Arizona needs to guarantee in law that tuition paid to public universities goes to those universities, a Democratic lawmaker said Monday. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Measure would widen use of donations to schools (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280501.php PHOENIX — A House panel voted Monday to allow donated funds to be used to help students get into college. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Pima wants your take on Nov. bond election (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280520.php To vote or not to vote: That is the question before Pima County's bond advisory committee. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Police see flurry of illegal cockfighting (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110258.php PHOENIX - Drugged-up roosters bred for fighting are outfitted with a metal blade tied to one ankle. They're released inside a pen, where in a bloody battle of flashing wings and flying feathers, one or the other is left dead or dying, all for the amusement of screaming spectators and gamblers. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Radar van locations (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280473.php The city's police radar van is scheduled to snap photographs of speeders at these locations today, according to the Tucson Police Department's Web site: | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Rap mogul Knight hurt in fight (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110311.php Police using Tasers broke up an early morning fight that sent rap impresario Marion "Suge" Knight to an Arizona hospital for treatment of face injuries, authorities said Monday. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Rap producer injured in Scottsdale hotel fight (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110287.php PHOENIX — A severe beating has left rap producer Marion 'Suge' Knight hospitalized in Scottsdale. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Revising city land code on council agenda (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110275.php The Tucson City Council is slated to talk at its meeting Wednesday about temporarily relaxing land use code requirements. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Rillito backers want historic tag for track to block its removal (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280495.php Supporters of keeping racing at Rillito Racetrack are pushing to have the entire site listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of an effort to stop the county from replacing the track with soccer fields. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 San Miguel High seniors leave mark, a piece at a time (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110278.php San Miguel High School's 24 seniors want to leave their mark and start a tradition for classes to come. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Scavenger hunt to help on ideas for vacant buildings (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110285.php Three artists are putting on a Downtown Scavenger Hunt to generate ideas from participants on what can be done with 10 vacant buildings. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Shun Mexico, UA warns its students (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280485.php UA officials want students to abandon any spring-break party plans that include Mexico. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 States face competing priorities for stimulus cash (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/110271.php Keeping the economy front and center, President Obama heads west this week to sign the $787 billion stimulus bill and tackle the home-mortgage-foreclosure crisis. | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Student of the week: Alfonso Sanchez Gallegos (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280492.php | add comment |
| 2009-02-17 Tucson Time Capsule : Buddy, gonna shut you down (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/280500.php | add comment |
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