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Mark Napier speaks with supporters at a 2016 election night party for Pima County Republicans.

After 42 years in public service, former Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier will retire from the county in August as part of a shakeup within the Pima County Administrator's Office. Read more»

Tucson voters approved the extension of a half-cent sales tax to tend to the city's road needs. The future is thinking regionally.

The half-cent sales tax voters kept in place Tuesday is about getting the city back to where it wants to be. The Regional Transportation Authority is about what Tucson wants to become. The City Council now must play nice with the RTA board. Read more»

Pima County Supervisor Steve Christy

No, Republicans, "crazy" isn't a prerequisite for making life hard on Democrats, as Supervisor Steve Christy proves with some smart bird-dogging. Read more»

Supervisor Steve Christy at the April 5 meeting of the Pima County Board of Supervisors.

"Jan Lesher's tenure as Pima County administrator is off to a rocky start, marked by an inability to step out of Chuck Huckelberry's shadow to chart her own course, and clouded by the suspicion of her being a willing participant in keeping public information hidden." Read more»

Pima County Administrator Jan Lesher during Tuesday's meeting.

Jan Lesher, the new Pima County administrator, will be paid $260,000 per year, significantly less than her predecessor, Chuck Huckelberry — who is being paid out $1.1 million more in retirement than documents revealed previously. Read more»

Who was that masked man with two scoops of salary? Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry resigned following a nasty bicycle accident — with his leaving coming 9 months after he retired and told no one.

Pima County Supervisors Matt Heinz and Steve Christy — hardly a buddy movie in the making — both have questions about how the county's former top executive was able to retire with no one knowing. Read more»

Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry's secret retirement had the Board of Supervisors in a tizzy, but the scandal of it isn't clear.

Chuck Huckelberry's secret retirement is more a function of a Pima County board not asking enough questions about their top dog's contract than a plan for that wily old dog to deceive — or at least receive. Read more»

Lesher during Tuesday's meeting.

Jan Lesher, for years the second-in-command of Pima County bureaucracy and for months the acting administrator, was appointed as the replacement for Chuck Huckelberry on Tuesday, as the Board of Supervisors voted to negotiate a contract with her. Read more»

Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry, seen at a December county meeting, is in a position for the kind of 'double dip' that drives taxpayers crazy.

Pima County's top administrator is poised to nearly double his income after taking a small cut to his salary. It's called a pension "double dip" and Chuck Huckelberry just set himself up for one. It's a scandal, right? Yes, it is. And no, it's not. Read more»

Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry at a Feb. 4, 2020, meeting of the Board of Supervisors.

Although it was announced last week that Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry would leave his post in the wake of a devastating bike crash, records revealed by the Tucson Sentinel show the longtime local government honcho actually retired on July 4, 2021, and began receiving his pension. Read more»

Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry's leadership through the coronvirus pandemic was one of the last acts of a 'ubiquitous and omnipresent' tenure that's coming to a close.

Chuck Huckelberry's tenure as the administrator atop Pima County will end Tuesday. Gone are the days when "You didn't need a whole process. You just needed Chuck." Read more»

Acting County Administrator Jan Lesher is set to step out of the wings and take over for Chuck Huckelberry on a permanent basis.

Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry is retiring six months after a nasty bike accident. As one era ends, supervisors are set to consider making Jan Lesher a permanent replacement. Read more»

Huckelberry at a 2019 Board of Supervisors' meeting.

After three decades as the most powerful political player in Southern Arizona, Chuck Huckelberry — still recovering from a vehicle crashing into his bicycle last fall — is hanging up his Dictaphone and retiring as Pima County's top administrator. Read more»

A Pima County sheriff's deputy gets vaccinated during a clinic at Tucson Medical Center in January 2021

Some of the best photos published by the Tucson Sentinel in 2021. Read more»

A Pima County sheriff's deputy receives a COVID-19 vaccination during a clinic at Tucson Medical Center in January 2021.

Up to 200 Pima County employees could be terminated because they have refused to get their vaccinations against COVID-19, flouting a policy for those who work with vulnerable people. But 87% have complied, and more could turn in evidence they've gotten their shots. Read more»

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