http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/category/business business news from TucsonSentinel.com - Tucson's independent nonprofit online news en Copyright 2012 2012-02-04T07:23:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_az_printed_notices/publishers-lawmakers-wrangle-over-printed-public-notices/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_az_printed_notices/publishers-lawmakers-wrangle-over-printed-public-notices/ 01:34:00Z Nicole Gilbert 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. 2012-02-04T01:34:48+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_buckmaster/buckmaster-legislation-would-create-new-pima-bonding-authority/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_buckmaster/buckmaster-legislation-would-create-new-pima-bonding-authority/ 22:49:00Z Buckmaster Show 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.” 2012-02-03T22:49:46+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_occupy_tucson/occupy-tucson-sets-up-camp-deanza-park/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020312_occupy_tucson/occupy-tucson-sets-up-camp-deanza-park/ 14:13:00Z Dylan Smith 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. 2012-02-03T14:13:40+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_occupy_tucson/occupy-tucson-set-up-camp-deanza-park/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_occupy_tucson/occupy-tucson-set-up-camp-deanza-park/#When: 16:17:000 Janet Rose Jackman Updated: 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. %2012-%02-%02GMT%23:%17:%00%Q http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_media_execs_pacs/media-execs-firms-giving-conservative-super-pacs/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_media_execs_pacs/media-execs-firms-giving-conservative-super-pacs/ 22:40:00Z Corbin Hiar 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. 2012-02-02T22:40:15+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_gop_defense_cuts/kyl-mccain-propose-bill-stop-defense-cuts/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_gop_defense_cuts/kyl-mccain-propose-bill-stop-defense-cuts/ 21:36:00Z Lillian Rizzo 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. 2012-02-02T21:36:23+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_buckmaster/buckmaster-irs-cracks-down-identity-theft-tax-fraud/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_buckmaster/buckmaster-irs-cracks-down-identity-theft-tax-fraud/ 21:09:00Z Buckmaster Show 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. 2012-02-02T21:09:25+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_soccer_riots_egypt/officials-fired-after-egypt-soccer-riots-that-killed-74/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_soccer_riots_egypt/officials-fired-after-egypt-soccer-riots-that-killed-74/ 20:00:00Z Lillian Rizzo 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. 2012-02-02T20:00:21+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_az_campuses_vets/greater-support-sought-vets-az-campuses/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_az_campuses_vets/greater-support-sought-vets-az-campuses/ 17:37:00Z Devin McIntyre A Republican lawmaker wants to build on a new state law that allows community colleges and universities to be certified as “veteran supportive campuses.” 2012-02-02T17:37:39+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_brewer_books/brewer-pacs-biggest-expense-buying-her-book/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_brewer_books/brewer-pacs-biggest-expense-buying-her-book/ 17:06:00Z Dylan Smith 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. 2012-02-02T17:06:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_red_cross_fine/red-cross-hit-with-10m-fine-over-bad-blood-handling/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020212_red_cross_fine/red-cross-hit-with-10m-fine-over-bad-blood-handling/ 16:39:00Z Lena Groeger 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. 2012-02-02T16:39:38+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_electric_cars/farley-drivers-electric-vehicles-should-help-pay-roads/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_electric_cars/farley-drivers-electric-vehicles-should-help-pay-roads/ 16:26:00Z Ivy Morris 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) 2012-02-02T16:26:08+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_manufactured_homes/slow-moving-regulation-hurting-manufactured-home-builders/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_manufactured_homes/slow-moving-regulation-hurting-manufactured-home-builders/ 16:03:00Z Salvador Rodriguez 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. 2012-02-02T16:03:44+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020112_verypoor/romneys-poverty-plan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020112_verypoor/romneys-poverty-plan/ 04:36:00Z Roberto De Vido You don’t need a Ph.D. in boulangerie to know Mitt Romney has always been more brioche than Wonder Bread guy. 2012-02-02T04:36:50+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020112_buckmaster/buckmaster-search-new-ua-president-narrowing/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020112_buckmaster/buckmaster-search-new-ua-president-narrowing/ 21:54:00Z Buckmaster Show 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. 2012-02-01T21:54:55+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_trees/planting-trees-now-will-help-beat-heat-later/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020212_trees/planting-trees-now-will-help-beat-heat-later/ 21:31:00Z Rachel Cabakoff 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. 2012-02-01T21:31:03+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020112_bank_robbery/suspect-sought-bank-robbery/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020112_bank_robbery/suspect-sought-bank-robbery/ 21:17:00Z Janet Rose Jackman Pima County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for the man who robbed a Chase Bank on Tucson’s north side on Tuesday. 2012-02-01T21:17:32+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020112_tep_solar/tep-add-solar-booster-irvington-electric-plant/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020112_tep_solar/tep-add-solar-booster-irvington-electric-plant/ 20:05:00Z Dylan Smith Tucson Electric Power is adding a 5-megawatt solar energy system to boost capacity at the utility’s Tucson generating plant, the company announced Tuesday. 2012-02-01T20:05:19+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020112_mccain_earmarks/mccain-flubs-earmark-claim-against-gingrich/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020112_mccain_earmarks/mccain-flubs-earmark-claim-against-gingrich/ 17:30:00Z Eugene Kiely Sen. John McCain incorrectly claimed that earmarks nearly doubled from $7.8 billion to $14.5 billion in Newt Gingrich’s first two years as House speaker. Actually, the increase was about half that. 2012-02-01T17:30:46+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020112_romney_poor/romney-im-not-concerned-very-poor/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020112_romney_poor/romney-im-not-concerned-very-poor/ 16:26:00Z Tim Fitzsimmons Flub comes a day after Romney swept the Florida primary, and the sound bite in which he says, “I’m not concerned about the very poor,” could haunt him in the general election if he becomes the GOP nominee. 2012-02-01T16:26:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020112_yuma_ag_tourism/farm-rich-yuma-out-cultivate-growth-agritourism/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020112_yuma_ag_tourism/farm-rich-yuma-out-cultivate-growth-agritourism/ 16:24:00Z Connor Radnovich Yuma’s Field to Feast, engages tourists, snowbirds and locals in the process of moving produce from soil to salad. Participants pick kale, lettuce, broccoli and more while learning about the area’s agriculture. (with video) 2012-02-01T16:24:56+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020112_oracle_park/locals-work-reopen-oracle-state-park-once-week/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020112_oracle_park/locals-work-reopen-oracle-state-park-once-week/ 16:09:00Z Jessica Testa Arizona State Parks hasn’t received state funding since 2009, and only nine of the state’s 29 public parks have stayed consistently open throughout the budget crisis. Thanks to $21,000 raised by a local group, Oracle State Park is reopening to the public, if only on Saturdays. 2012-02-01T16:09:45+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020112_pfizer_the_pill/birth-control-pills-recalled/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020112_pfizer_the_pill/birth-control-pills-recalled/ 16:03:00Z Jessica Phelan Roughly 1 million packets of birth control pills have been recalled, after pharmaceutical company Pfizer said they might not provide the correct dose to prevent pregnancy. 2012-02-01T16:03:00+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/013112_occupy_mexico/occupy-mexico-how-end-drug-war/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/013112_occupy_mexico/occupy-mexico-how-end-drug-war/ 00:35:00Z Nathanial Parish Flannery Mexico’s Occupy protesters, who focus on poverty and workers’ rights, have failed to win many followers. The movement has been entirely ignored by Mexico’s mainstream politicians. And most Mexicans are more concerned with an end to drug violence. 2012-02-01T00:35:29+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/013112_az_tanning_beds/bill-would-bar-az-salons-from-letting-teens-use-tanning-beds/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/013112_az_tanning_beds/bill-would-bar-az-salons-from-letting-teens-use-tanning-beds/ 23:47:00Z Cale Ottens Rep. Peggy Judd, a Republican from Willcox, has introduced a bill that would ban establishments from allowing those under 18 into tanning beds. 2012-01-31T23:47:08+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/013112_buckmaster/buckmaster-it-possible-ward-off-alzheimers-disease/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/013112_buckmaster/buckmaster-it-possible-ward-off-alzheimers-disease/ 21:15:00Z Buckmaster Show Today on Buckmaster - We start things off with a conversation with Nancy Young Wright, Democratic Candidate for Pima County Supervisor in District 1. Also, the Tuesday Money Maker Report with Certified Financial Planner Shelly Fishman. Plus, Alzheimer’s researcher Dr. Al Kaszniak. 2012-01-31T21:15:27+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/013012_buckmaster/buckmaster-brewer-obama-tarmac-tiff-divides-arizonans/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/013012_buckmaster/buckmaster-brewer-obama-tarmac-tiff-divides-arizonans/ 21:46:00Z Buckmaster Show Today on Buckmaster - It’s the Monday Political Face-Off featuring commentators Bruce Ash and Paul Eckerstrom. Plus, a conversation with Dr. Gorden Ewy, head of the UA Sarver Heart Center. 2012-01-30T21:46:21+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/013012_immigrants_houston/a-divide-payoff-legalizing-immigrants/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/013012_immigrants_houston/a-divide-payoff-legalizing-immigrants/ 21:26:00Z Julian Aguilar Granting legal status to the illegal immigrants living in one of Texas’ largest metropolitan areas would generate at least $1.4 billion a year in revenue for state and federal agencies, with Social Security and Medicare being the largest potential beneficiaries. 2012-01-30T21:26:14+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/013012_bbb_taxes/bbb-watch-out-tax-preparation-scams/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/013012_bbb_taxes/bbb-watch-out-tax-preparation-scams/ 19:30:00Z Nick LaFleur Consumers expecting a tax refund might be looking forward to filing their taxes early this year, but the Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona warns to be cautious of tax preparers who claim they can get larger refunds than their competitors. 2012-01-30T19:30:16+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/013012_insurance_reform/important-reforms-dont-always-require-grand-vision/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/013012_insurance_reform/important-reforms-dont-always-require-grand-vision/ 17:45:00Z Nick Dranias Sometimes important regulatory and tort reforms come in small packages. 2012-01-30T17:45:56+00:00