Gallery: Photos from the election
By Troy Hutchison
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2Nov No Comments
No Comments The race for Pima County Assessor: Droubie vs Sabbagh
Photo: Suzanne Droubie (left), Jo Ann Sabbagh (right)
By Lanissa Patterson
With the election right around the corner, there is a lot of focus on federal candidates, but local candidates are feeling the pressure as well.
In the race for Pima County Assessor, Suzanne Droubie (Democrat) is running against Jo Ann Sabbagh (Republican).
The responsibility of the county Assessor is to identify and list properties, as well as determine tax eligibility for exemption, according to Droubie.
Assessors evaluate individuals’ real estate, as well as follow up with building permits that pass through the assessor’s office, says Sabbagh. The assessor’s office handles all business property tax and the county assessor should monitor or “touch” a property every 5 years.
Droubie was born and raised in Minn...
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No Comments The race for Pima County Sheriff
By Mylene Roberts
Mark Napier has been Pima County Sheriff for the past four years since defeating Chris Nanos, who was appointed after the previous sheriff retired in 2015. Both say they were asked to be a candidate for Pima County Sheriff by people in the department.
Chris Nanos has been in law enforcement for over 40 years. Nanos said that while he misses the job, he also misses the people in the department, and that the people that he worked with have become family.
Napier has been in law enforcement for 30 years. He has committed his life to public service and started as a police officer in 1981. He is running for Pima County Sheriff because he believes that there is a lot more work to be done including his Accountability, Community Engagement and Transparency (ACT) reform program....
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No Comments Column: Preaching from the congressional pulpit
By Kevin Hartung
A moralistic government is appealing but may not be plausible, unless you can conceive of a government without incongruities. Governments need to gauge what is fundamental to support wellbeing and what is an altruistic desire to support success.
Some believe that a government ‘by the people and for the people’ should provide equal outcomes for all its citizens. Their ambitions are the result of research that establishes the downtrodden are victims of injustices; the poor result from unfair labor practices and unequal educational systems that exist in our nation. These believers desire improvement in the circumstances of the disadvantaged.
Conversely, others believe that the blame for disadvantaged people lies on their own doorstep. The circumstances of indigents, they sa...
30Oct No Comments
No Comments Vote ‘YES’ on Prop 208: It won’t cost you a penny
By Noor Haghighi
The great state of Arizona is notorious for its failure to meet national education standards.
As of this year, we sit at 49th place for overall education based on data determining quality and safety. In 2018, Arizonans took to the streets to protest in favor of Red for Ed, a movement that pushed for an increase in state government spending on public education. Since the outcome of Red for Ed was unfortunately of little help, the state still has a long way to go. And now that the elections are coming up in November, Proposition 208 has come into play.
A stripped down, digestible version of what the proposition introduces in regards to educational funding in Arizona is as follows: A vote “yes” on the ballot will support increasing the income tax from 4.5% to 8% on incom...
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No Comments On the issues: Pima Governing Board candidates Ethan Orr and Catherine Ripley
By Kyle Kersey
With sitting board member Mark Hanna retiring at the end of his term, the election for a seat on Pima Community College’s Board of Governors is a race between former Arizona state legislator Ethan Orr and retired naval officer Catherine Ripley.
Background
Governing Board members are elected in a non-partisan election, which means that you won’t see a “D” or an “R” next to the candidates’ name on the ballot. However, the two have represented opposite sides of the political spectrum in the past.
Orr served as a Republican representative from district 9 in the Arizona state legislature from 2013 through 2015. During his tenure, he said he worked across the aisle to secure $50 million in education funding to the Tucson community, and managed to sneak in $8 million to finish...
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No Comments McSally and Kelly discuss climate change, public land management in online forums
Photo by Gage Skidmore
By Joe Giddens
Posted with permission from Tucson Weekly. Original story can be found at: https://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2020/10/05/mcsally-and-kelly-discuss-climate-change-public-land-management-in-online-forums?fbclid=IwAR3tttQkKYOkpQ74hz8e_t5SXFA1FeJNx9NW8UyeYiso5QeP_04uXXfosJM
Senate candidates Martha McSally and Mark Kelly laid out their visions of public land management for Arizona on Friday in two separate online forums hosted by the Arizona Trail Association.
The online forums took place ahead of their only scheduled debate on Tuesday and today’s voter registration deadline (which has since been extended to October 23).
Climate change starkly contrasted the candidates. McSally continued her rhetoric of qualifying the scientific consensus th...
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No Comments Pima County Recorder Election Takes Shape
By JOE GIDDENS
Photo courtesy Arizona Center for Empowerment
Campaigns for the 2020 election have shifted to an online focus in the era of social distancing.
The Arizona Center for Empowerment helded a Facebook Live forum on May 14 for Democrat candidates Kim Challender and Gabriella Cázares-Kelly for Pima County Recorder.
The third Democratic candidate, Consuelo Hernandez Hernandez, has suspended her campaign for recorder and filed paperwork at the end of March with the Pima County Elections Department to run for the Pima County Supervisors District 5 seat.
Kim Challender is the assistant chief deputy at the Pima County Recorder’s office where she has been for five years. Citing her role of working on county cyber security issues and hiring and training employees in her pitch to vo...
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No Comments Bernie Sanders suspends 2020 campaign
Vice President Joe Biden congratulates Sen. Bernie Sanders at the Old Senate Chamber in 2013.
Photo courtesy Wikimedia
By ELLIANA KOPUT
Less than 24 hours after Wisconsin’s controversial democratic primary election, for which votes have yet to be counted, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has announced that he will be dropping out of the 2020 presidential race.
Although numerous states, including Wyoming, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska and Georgia, have yet to hold their state and presidential primaries, former Vice President Joe Biden has become the presumptive presidential candidate to run against President Donald Trump.
Sanders made the decision over a conference call with staff members. He later publicized the announcement in a livestream on April 8.
“So while we are winning the ideologic...
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