Women earned more than men in just 12 of the nation’s 435 congressional districts in 2011, and one of those districts was Arizona’s CD4. Tucson-area CD8 posted the state’s largest wage gap, with men earning nearly $12,500 more than women.... Read more»
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Outside groups poured more than $1 million into polling and advertising in the three weeks before the election to replace former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to the Federal Election Commission.... Read more»3
Travel delays have pushed back new U.S. Rep. Ron Barber’s first “Congress On Your Corner” event to Saturday afternoon. It had been scheduled for 9 a.m. at an East Side Safeway.... Read more»1
Days after being sworn in to replace Gabrielle Giffords, newly elected Rep. Ron Barber, D-Tucson, will hold his first constituent meeting at a venue remarkably similar to one where he, Giffords and others were shot in 2011.... Read more»1
New U.S. Rep. Ron Barber has been appointed to two powerful House committees: Armed Services and Homeland Security.... Read more»1
New U.S. Rep. Ron Barber will hold a “Congress On Your Corner” event on Saturday.... Read more»1
Democrat Ron Barber was sworn into office Tuesday as the representative for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District in a ceremony in Washington D.C.... Read more»3
A top aide to GOP CD2 candidate Martha McSally has resigned in the wake of allegations that he approached a staffer for Democrat Ron Barber with advice on how to beat Republican Jesse Kelly in the CD 8 special election.... Read more»2
A campaign aide for Martha McSally gave a staffer for Ron Barber unsolicited tips on beating Jesse Kelly a week before the special general election, Barber aides said. The Republican spokesman, Sam Stone, denied giving campaign advice.... Read more»2
Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachick, Southern Arizona Business Coalition’s Bill Assenmacher and Rick Grinnell, and Tucson Weekly’s Jim Nintzel with CD8 election analysis.... Read more»
Republican Jesse Kelly, fresh off a second Congress-race loss in less than two years, won’t seek the 2nd Congressional District seat in the fall, he said in a brief statement Thursday afternoon.... Read more»6
Guests: Election analysis with TucsonSentinel.com editor Dylan Smith, Shelly Fishman on U.S. and European markets, and Pima Democratic Chairman Jeff Rogers.... Read more»2
Today on Buckmaster - Reaction to the CD8 vote with Jeff Rogers, Paul Eckerstrom and Bruce Ash, an interview with Alan Forrest, the new director of Tucson Water, and Robert Hendricks, the Buckmaster Show contributor on education.... Read more»
John C. Scott Interviews Jesse Kelly, Bruce Ash, Ron Barber and Jeff Rogers.... Read more»
Jesse, Jesse, Jesse ... you probably shouldn’t have said those things you said about Social Security and Medicare. All politics is local.... Read more»2
A poll released Monday said Democrat Ron Barber “appears to have the race pretty much locked up” as voters give him a 53-41 edge over Republican Jesse Kelly. Voters overwhelmingly—59 percent— have a negative opinion of Kelly, while 54 percent view Barber favorably.... Read more»3
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