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Josh Brodesky: UA-area sale has signs of new student 'community'Call center adding 70 jobs, weighs possibly 600 moreSAHBA names new presidentRuby Star Airpark developer bankruptMr. An sets his sights on 5th/Congress siteIn downturn, raw land for homes now dead weightJosh Brodesky: Wal-Mart avoids city's big-box lawFirst Magnus checks won't go out just yetJosh Brodesky: The media loan-modification programForeclosure filings show no letup
A longtime city of South Tucson police officer has been fired after becoming the focus of an FBI and IRS probe for suspicion of cashing checks intended for the city and its police department.
Representatives for the IRS and the U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment. Efforts to reach Garcia were not successful.
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Despite innovations, UA falters in solar eventCounty's air cleaner last summer vs. '08First vegetarian spider foundStudy of vegetarian spider nets UA grad student national attention (w/video)Shot at the moon: No dust cloud, but lots of data Best view of moon crash will be on TV or online Planning a hike on Mount Lemmon? Read this first Early birds may catch NASA's moon crash Huge loss for UA: 2 professors are headed for Yale Monsoon season all but over — but who can tell?
I head for the bathroom. To flush or not to flush. Water is a threatened natural resource, as well as a big energy consumer. It takes pumps powered by fossil fuels to get it here.
Power for the pumps is partially supplied by a coal-burning power plant in the northeast corner of the state that is blamed for poor visibility at Grand Canyon. I can't do anything about that, other than to use less water.
The electricity that powers my air conditioning runs a central chiller at my condo complex. I have no meter and pay for the service in a lump-sum payment to my homeowners' association, regardless of how much electricity my wife and I use. I can't really control that, can't measure it for the carbon calculator.
In my unit, front and back means east and west. Not the best orientation for energy savings, but we have, at least, deep overhangs over the porches, 6 feet of shade that is doing no good at the moment as the sun peeks over the eastern mountains and sends shafts of blinding white light into the living room.
For now, I draw the blinds. Curtains would help.
In spring and fall, and for much of the winter, we leave the blinds open and warm the room with sunlight in the early morning. We open the sliding glass doors at night and close them in the morning when it's merely warm and not hot; reverse that when it's cool but not cold. In that way, we use neither heating nor cooling for more than half the year.
On those infrequent, very cold days (where it might drop below freezing for an hour or two) we turn on the heat for a few hours, warming the house to sweater comfort. We turn it off overnight, using a down comforter on the bed.
This is not an altruistic choice. I hate overheated rooms. I grew up in New Jersey where all homes are hot and stuffy all winter.
I brew a pot, in an automatic-drip coffeemaker that uses an incredible 1200 watts of power, but only for a short time. The coffee drips into an insulated vacuum pot and needs no hot plate to keep it warm.
I leave for work.
When I fill out those carbon calculators, air travel is our Achilles' heel. Driving less in a 4-cylinder car seems for naught when you're burning so much jet fuel.
Lunch is usually my most carbon-intensive meal. I drive to get there and I have no control over where my food comes from. Confession: I occasionally stop at McDonald's for a cheeseburger or two and a Coke.
On this day, my son Zach meets me for lunch at a Mexican restaurant just two miles from the office. Most of the ingredients for his veggie burro and my chicken enchiladas in tomatillo sauce came, most likely, from California or Mexico. Parts of the meal are actually good for us.
My marinade features soy sauce from China, Worcestershire sauce from England, garlic from California and a splash of white wine from God knows where. I use the cheapest wine for cooking and while the label tells me where it was bottled, the grapes came from a low bidder somewhere.
The salad of organic baby greens came from a field in California and the lemon I squeeze for the dressing, at this time of year, came from South America. The olive oil is from Italy, as is the Romano cheese I grind to finish it off.
I try to shop the farmers' markets for local produce. For one thing, the food is better, but there is a problem here in Tucson with buying local produce. As Gary Paul Nabhan pointed out in a recent essay, buying local produce doesn't necessarily make ecological sense in a climate where the water must be imported. He recommends buying only those crops that are indigenous to the area.
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Tometich, a Marana resident and former commander of the Arizona Department of Public Safety's Tucson bureau, was scheduled to begin work Wednesday. He is taking over for Chief Richard Vidaurri, who announced on April 15 that he would retire by June 30.
Tometich, 62, will be paid about $9,375 a month while Marana conducts a national search for a permanent chief.
Elks, others raise funds for Special Olympics
A fundraiser coordinated by the Catalina Mountain Elks Lodge No. 2815 and other organizations in the Catalina area raised about $23,000 for the Special Olympics of Pima County.
Neighborhood association garage sale on Saturday
A garage sale benefiting La Cañada/Magee Neighborhood Association will be held from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
Items for sale will include antiques, collectibles, books, tools and furniture.
For more information, call 742-2032.
The cost is $25 for chair seating if purchased today, or $25 at the gate for lawn seating, with $5 from each ticket being donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation to benefit breast cancer research.
Tickets can be bought at the resort's gift shop. For more information, call 297-1151.
Opening reception for ranching display
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 1-520-896-9609 or go online to www.oraclehistorical society.org.
For more information, call La Cañada/Magee Neighborhood Association at 742-2032.
Golf tourney is benefit for arts in local schools
The first Swing for the Arts Golf Tournament fundraiser will be held Friday at the private Stone Canyon Golf Club, 14200 N. Hohokam Village Place.
Register online at www. govac.org, or call 797-3959 for rates and more information.
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Union to counter TUSD's contract offerUnion to counter TUSD's contract offerCONTRACT DEAL: TUSD teachers to get 3 percent raises TUSD's Pfeuffer, union chief at odds over new teachers TUSD-TEA dispute ends with 3% raise agreementUPDATE: TUSD to discuss teacher union's counter offerTUSD ups teacher pay offer (updated at 10:00 a.m.)Students pay price for poor negotiationsTUSD-teacher pay negotiations resume Friday School notes
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Union seeks bigger raise for veteran teachers
The Tucson Education Association has submitted a counter- offer to the Tucson Unified School District seeking to equalize pay raises for all teachers, a key point of contention in their ongoing contract dispute.
Last week, a day before the district was crippled by a sickout involving more than 1,400 teachers, district officials offered pay raises of 3 percent for new and midrange experienced teachers, while limiting more experienced teachers making $60,000 a year to a 2.2 percent boost.
"We are five weeks into the school year, and there is not a new contract for our teachers. So, yes there is a sense of urgency," District spokeswoman Chyrl Hill Lander said. "There are easier ways to do this. I think both sides are committed to coming up with a better way in negotiating a new contract."
For Diane Critchley, who teaches special education at Gridley Middle School and participated in last week's sickout, the prolonged contract dispute simply needs to come to an end. She said the conflict crushed whatever little morale had been in the district.
With arbitration looming, the disruption of the sickout fresh in their minds, many parents expressed both their support for the teachers and a desire to see a deal closed.
"I think for them to offer that 1 percent, to me, that was a huge slap in the face to our teachers who are with our children day in and day out," said Angela Badilla, who has three kids in the district. "I think our kids are going to suffer from it."
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Tickets are available for $20 at the door, online at www.sasomusic.org or by calling 323-7166. Admission is free for children 17 and under.
Tohono Chul Park, 7366 N. Paseo del Norte, will open its annual "Holiday for the Park: Ornament Exhibit and Fundraiser" for the 14th time today.
Artists who have shown in the park's exhibits and museum shops create and donate one-of-a-kind ornaments or holiday decorations for the exhibit, and park supporters purchase them. The park expects about 150 ornaments and decorations this year to go on sale at 9 a.m..
The exhibit is free with admission to the park: $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and active military, $3 for students, $2 for children 5 through 12 and free for children under 5. Admission is free for park members.
Park visitors will be treated to free holiday cookies, hot cider, coffee and live music and performances. Admission is $5 for adult park members and $8 for the general public. Children 12 and under pay $2.
To sign up for the blood drive, call Marana spokesman Rodney Campbell at 382-1936 or e-mail him at rcampbell@marana.com.
Date set for Marana's Christmas tree lighting
There also will be vendors selling food and crafts. The Marana Parks and Recreation department will provide cookies and hot cocoa for visitors.
Throughout the day, participating businesses in the project area will host booths for giveaways, raffles, coupons and other discounts.
Registration, basic computer skills and a library card are required for the class, which is limited to 10 people.
For more information and to register, call 229-5300.
Community Center to hold open house, art sale
The Oracle Community Center, which recently underwent improvements, will host a Deck the Halls open house and fine-art sale from 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 6.
Artists will pay a commission for any artwork sold at the event. Proceeds will benefit the center.
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Cash-starved Arizona might sell the visitor center at Kartchner Caverns State Park for $10.59 million.
Selling off public-owned buildings to raise some fast cash, and then buying them back over time, isn't exactly a new idea. Former Tucson City Manager Joel D. Valdez was among the pioneers of the practice back in 1984, when he came up with the idea to sell the then-20-year-old City Hall tower to raise money for a parking garage just up West Alameda Street.
The deal worked so well that a few years later the city repeated the practice, selling Tucson Police Department headquarters and other buildings to fund the expansion of the Tucson Convention Center, after voters rejected bonds to pay for the project.
For sale by the state
Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind:
"The downside to this whole thing is it's a one-shot deal. It's like getting a loan from the bank. It's not a revenue stream. It's a one-time bailout. So the real challenge for us, the elected, is what do we do when this one-time deal runs out?"
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Cash-starved AZ putting Tucson properties up for sale
For a little more than $46 million, the Tucson campus of the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind could be yours.
If you're looking for something more exotic, perhaps the Kartchner Caverns visitor center — priced at $10,588,854 — fits your taste.
"Sale" might be a bit misleading, actually. It's more like renting to own something you already own.
"I think it's the worst possible thing to do except for all of the other alternatives," said state Sen. Jonathan Paton, a Tucson Republican. Those "alternatives" would be raising taxes or cutting programs, and Paton said the votes just aren't there for either.
The state is still sorting out what properties will hit the market, said Alan Ecker, a spokesman for the state's Department of Administration, which is handling the seller lease-backs. He called it a "working list." Some will come off the list, and others will come on. No property is off the table.
Buyers need assurances the state will stay in the buildings for 20 years and not break leases if programs housed in the buildings are cut, he said.
There's also the question of payments. Investors expect a profit from the sale of the building to the state 20 years later, Hawkins said. Either that cost of "selling" the building is folded into the regular payments or it's added to the back end of the deal, he said.
Ecker said the list is a work in progress because the state is looking to ensure that it chooses buildings it's committed to for the next 20 years. That's why prisons are on the list, he said.
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