The annual St. Patrick’s Day festival and parade will honor its creators this year. It’s a fitting theme following the death last week of one of the founders, Mike Haggerty, who was to have been the event’s grand marshal.... Read more»
Today on Buckmaster - Pima County Supervisors’ Chairman Ramon Valadez, Buckmaster Show historian Ken Scoville, and Dave Wells of the Grand Canyon Institute.... Read more»
Today on Buckmaster - Randy Serraglio of the Center for Biological Diversity, certified financial planner Shelly Fishman, Roxanna Green — mother of Christina-Taylor Green, Dana Bartholomew of the Christina-Taylor Green Memorial, and Beat Cancer Boot Camp founder Anita “Sarge” Kellman.... Read more»
After 50 years, the longest-serving aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy will embark Sunday on its final voyage.... Read more»1
A lawmaker’s attempt to have Arizonans decide whether to revive the voter–approved Heritage Fund is stalled in the House.... Read more»
The Theodore Roosevelt School at Fort Apache has been designated a National Historic Landmark for its role between the federal government and tribes they were trying to assimilate.... Read more»
Rick Santorum misrepresented what John F. Kennedy said in 1960 about church-state separation.... Read more»
A plan to move a U.S. Marine base on Okinawa, Japan, to a less populated part of the island is meeting opposition by residents of the ecologically important stretch of coastline.... Read more»
The events of Fidel Castro’s 18 months in Mexico during the mid-1950s receive expansive treatment in the new two-volume, 1,000-page memoir “Guerrillero del Tiempo.”... Read more»
True West Magazine’s seventh annual ranking of Old West towns across the country, did not include Tombstone in the Top 10, while Prescott was named No. 1.... Read more»1
Today on Buckmaster — We talk eating healthy when dining out with Dr. Victoria Maizes of the Center for Integrative Medicine. Also, a conversation about Black History Month with Jonathan Peck of the Tucson Urban League.... Read more»
Rick Santorum now enjoys a 10-point advantage over Mitt Romney among registered Republicans nationwide, but he found himself denying he had compared President Barack Obama to the German dictator Adolf Hitler in remarks he made on Sunday.... Read more»1
Mike Davis, who helped pioneer punk rock with Detroit’s legendary the MC5, and later played with Tucson’s Rich Hopkins and Luminarios, died Friday of liver failure. He was 68.... Read more»
In 2010, lawmakers eliminated the Heritage Fund, pulling the plug on dozens of approved, construction-ready projects. Now, a state lawmaker is moving forward with a resolution that would put the Heritage Fund back on the ballot in November.... Read more»
The big-show crowd-pleasers like bull riding tend to be the draw for many in the stands at Tucson’s rodeo, but it’s everything else that makes the annual event something more than just a way to pass the afternoon.... Read more»
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