With budgets tight and the world increasingly connected by the Internet, state lawmakers and publishers are wrangling over whether the future of public notices should include paying for ads to run in newspapers.... Read more»
Today on Buckmaster - Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry is the Friday Focus Newsmaker. Then, it’s the Reporters’ Roundtable featuring Sarah Garrecht Gassen of the Arizona Daily Star and Dan Shearer of the Green Valley News. Plus, Weekend Watch with Matt Russell, “The Culinary Cruiser.”... Read more»
Occupy Tucson members set up tents at DeAnza Park, just north of downtown, Thursday night. Tucson now has the longest-running uninterrupted anti-corporate protest in the nation, an organizer said.... Read more»4
Some Occupy Tucson members plan to regroup at a city park when they put up tents and plan to sleep at DeAnza Park, but the City of Tucson says members face arrest.... Read more»2
News companies and their executives donated more than $350,000 to conservative super PACs in 2011, according to financial disclosure forms filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission.... Read more»
Republican senators proposed a plan that would spare the U.S. military from nearly $500 billion in automatic spending cuts next January by reducing the federal workforce instead.... Read more»
Today on Buckmaster - We kick off the show with Democratic Candidate for US Senate Don Bivens. Then, we talk about the IRS crackdown on identity theft with Brian Watson, Special Agent with the Department of the Treasury. Also, Marana Mayor Ed Honea on his town’s new one-stop business center. Plus, attorney Don Loose has an update on the state’s medical marijuana law.... Read more»
Egyptian Football Association officials, along with officials in Port Said, have been fired following the riots after Wednesday’s soccer match between Al Masry and Al Ahly, in which 74 people died.... Read more»
A Republican lawmaker wants to build on a new state law that allows community colleges and universities to be certified as “veteran supportive campuses.”... Read more»
The biggest expense reported by Jan PAC, Gov. Brewer’s political action committee, is the purchase of copies of the governor’s book, financial reports show.... Read more»1
The FDA has hit the American Red Cross with a nearly $10 million fine for safety violations, lax oversight and faulty testing of its blood services. The fine is just the latest of more than a dozen the Red Cross has racked up in the last decade.... Read more»
A Democratic state lawmaker is proposing that owners of electric vehicles pay a penny-per-mile tax for each mile they drive. “One of the only ways we pay for our roadways is through gas tax. We need to find a way of closing that loophole.” (with videos)... Read more»
The director of engineering for a Phoenix-based manufactured-home company told Congress on Wednesday that a federal agency’s inefficient handling of regulations has contributed to an 80 percent drop in construction in his industry since 2000.... Read more»
You don’t need a Ph.D. in boulangerie to know Mitt Romney has always been more brioche than Wonder Bread guy.... Read more»
Today on Buckmaster - We’ve got a newsmaker interview with former U.S. Sen. Dennis DeConcini of the Arizona Board of Regents. Also, Tucson-based writer Tom Miller on his recent trip to Cuba. Next, historian Ken Scoville previews Old Ft. Lowell Days. Then, we close out the show with a newsmaker interview with State Sen. Linda Lopez.... Read more»
As winter temperatures linger, it is a good time to plant trees before the weather warms, said Tucson Clean & Beautiful about their Trees for Tucson Program, which is taking applications for low-cost shade trees.... Read more»
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