Rep. Grijalva Joins Smith, Finchem, Leach In Opposition To I-11 In Avra Valley
District 3 Congressman Raul Grijalva has publically come out in opposition to building a new highway, Interstate 11, in the…
Articles by Albert Vetere Lannon
I-11: Irony, Hypocrisy, And Defunct Democracy In Pima County
The May 16, 2017, Board of Supervisors meeting adopted a resolution written by the County Administrator’s office in defense of…
Interstate 11 In Southern Arizona: ADOT Versus Almost Everybody
From The Avra Valley Coalition, While pursuing stories on the Arizona Department of Transportation’s current series of public meetings with…
Interstate 11 Public Meetings: How Much Public Involvement Does ADOT Really Want?
[Sign the petition Against Avra Valley Alignment here] With the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Interstate 11 study now in its…
Silence From Washington About Interstate 11 Jobs – In Mexico!
On behalf of the Avra Valley Coalition As part of a three-year, $15 million Tier 1 Environmental Impact Study to…
ADOT Project Raises Bicyclists Danger Level West Of Tucson
Cycling west of the Tucson Mountains, a favorite route, is getting even more crazy than usual. And it’s going to…
Review: “In The Heights” Reaches The Heights
Pima Community College has been the center of a number of controversies in recent years, most recently helping to scuttle…
The Pima County Monarchy
“The Pima County Board of Supervisors is responsible for steering public policy in the region. The five-member board provides direction…
Looking For The Big Stink – A Journalistic Odyssey
Last week the Editor sent me a copy of a November 29 official Pima County Memorandum from the Pima County…
“General Bullshit” Revisited: Jobs, Journalism, and the Story Behind the Story
Tucson Weekly columnist Jim Nintzel recently accused the Arizona Daily Independent of “innuendo, plagiarism, fabrication, gossip and general bullshit” in…
Dozens Tell Pima County Supervisors: “Say No to Monsanto”
In a stunning and unusual setback, County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry’s plan for taxpayer-paid “incentives” for the agribusiness giant Monsanto was…
“Innuendo, Plagiarism, Fabrication, Gossip and General Bullshit” In Pima County
The above quote is from Tucson Weekly political writer Jim Nintzel describing the Arizona Daily Independent’s reporting in his “The…
Why, After 15 Years, The Marc Rich Pardon Still Matters
The mainstream media barely took note of the FBI’s release October 31of some 129 heavily redacted pages pertaining to the…
Ghost Stories For Halloween…And After
Ghost stories: whether you believe them or not, there are some things that are just hard to explain. And some…