Here's what the old Levy's at El Con Mall looks like today. Soon, it will be another Walmart. This picture was taken through a gap in the tarp that covers the construction fence.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Libraries Want to Streamline E-Content Delivery
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| Photo Illustration by Robert Jaime, Arizona Public Media |
As electronic books gain popularity, through devices like iPads, Kindles and Nooks, the demand sometimes exceeds the supply, because of ownership and rights issues.
More than 70 library systems across the county, including Pima County Public Library, recently launched what they call the “ReadersFirst Initiative” to make sure electronic content is readily accessible and easy for patrons to download.
Read more and listen (via AZPM)
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Making Sense of Ballot Propositions
With the election season upon us once again, now is a good time for a primer on how the ballot measures numbering system works.
(Source: Arizona Secretary of State's Office)
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Propositions in the "100" series are constitutional amendments initiated by the people, or referred to the ballot by the Arizona Legislature.
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Propositions in the "200" series are citizen initiatives to create new state laws, or to amend current statutes.
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Propositions in the "300" series are referred to the ballot by the
Arizona Legislature to create new state laws, or to amend current
statues.
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Propositions in the "400" series deal with local matters.
(Source: Arizona Secretary of State's Office)
Pima County Library Bookbike
The Pima County Library’s Bookbike is rolling around Tucson, handing out free books to anyone who wants them.
“The Bookbike is an adult, three-wheeled tricycle that has a specially-created box in the front. When you open it up, it has bookshelves and it can hold hundreds of books,” says Adult Services Librarian Karen Greene, who modeled the program after one she first heard about in Chicago. “We take the Bookbike out to different locations to give away the books, to give away library cards, to give out information about library programs and literacy projects, as well as bike maps and bike programs,” she says.
Read more and listen (via AZPM)
(Photo: Robert Rappaport/Arizona Public Media)
“The Bookbike is an adult, three-wheeled tricycle that has a specially-created box in the front. When you open it up, it has bookshelves and it can hold hundreds of books,” says Adult Services Librarian Karen Greene, who modeled the program after one she first heard about in Chicago. “We take the Bookbike out to different locations to give away the books, to give away library cards, to give out information about library programs and literacy projects, as well as bike maps and bike programs,” she says.
Read more and listen (via AZPM)
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Housing Bubble Aftermath: Rethinking Sprawl
Tucson and the city’s outskirts were riding high on growth several years ago, with developments seeming to pop up everywhere there was empty land. But that all changed when the housing bust and recession took hold.
The Tucson area continues to suffer from the downturn, but does that mean we did something wrong?
Read more and listen (via AZPM)
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Arizona ranked first in the nation in rate of foreclosure filings in March, according to RealtyTrac.(AZPM photo)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Kid Rock Rocks!
What a great mix of a couple of classics..."Werewolves of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama." You gotta admire Pam's ex.
Press Secretary vs. The Doctor
Check out this blog from The Random Kvetches of Hajii al-Badr. He makes some interesting points. If you don't want to click, here's a snippet:
Nothing is more tragic for our Media Glitterati than when one of their own dies: witness the wall-to-wall coverage and mourning for the passing of Tim Russert. Now, another enabler has died, Tony Snow, former press secretary for the Bush Junta and as of this writing, the New York Times, the LA Times and the Washington Post either have this as the lead story or above the Internet fold to grab your attention.
Meanwhile, buried underneath that imaginary line on the computer screen is an obituary for Dr. Michael DeBakey. What did he do? Is it just another doctor? Well, not exactly. You see, he was a world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered procedures like bypass surgery. You know what that is? It’s one of the more common surgeries that help keep people alive when they’ve had a heart attack.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Pun-Tificating
* I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
* Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
* Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all
right now.
* The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
* To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
* When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
* A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
* A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened
criminal.
* Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.
* We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.
* When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U C L A.
* The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.
* The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky
ground.
* The dead batteries were given out free of charge.
* If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
* A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.
* A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
* The optometrist fell into his lens grinder and made a spectacle of
himself.
* Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
* A backward poet writes inverse.
* In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your
Count that votes.
* A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
* With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
* Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner.
* When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
* The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
* A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulted in Linoleum
Blownapart.
* You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
* He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
* A boiled egg is hard to beat.
* He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
* His parents thought he was a budding genius, but he turned out to be a
blooming idiot.
* A plateau is a high form of flattery.
* Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
* When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
* When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
* Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
* Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
* Acupuncture: a jab well done
* Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
* Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all
right now.
* The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
* To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
* When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
* A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
* A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened
criminal.
* Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.
* We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.
* When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U C L A.
* The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.
* The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky
ground.
* The dead batteries were given out free of charge.
* If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
* A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.
* A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
* The optometrist fell into his lens grinder and made a spectacle of
himself.
* Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
* A backward poet writes inverse.
* In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your
Count that votes.
* A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
* With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
* Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner.
* When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
* The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
* A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulted in Linoleum
Blownapart.
* You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
* He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
* A boiled egg is hard to beat.
* He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
* His parents thought he was a budding genius, but he turned out to be a
blooming idiot.
* A plateau is a high form of flattery.
* Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
* When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
* When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
* Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
* Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
* Acupuncture: a jab well done
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