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🥵 As Tucson’s summers stretch longer and hotter, nonprofits serving seniors say federal cuts and a shrinking donor pool are leaving them short-staffed and scrambling for funds. Read more.
🚨 A new database tracks more than 50 people who’ve died in ICE detention nationwide since Trump took office — four of them in Arizona. Read more.
🎬 Luis Valdez’s parents were born in Nogales and Tucson, and a new documentary on the Chicano theater pioneer premieres at The Loft Cinema Sept. 4. Read in English | Lee en español
🕯️ Friends and regulars gathered outside Venture-N to remember Cameron Davis Capara and Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, killed in a hate-related shooting at the LGBTQ+ bar, in reporting from LOOKOUT’s Susan Barnett. Read more.
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Rising heat, falling funding challenge nonprofits serving Tucson seniors
It may not have been easy exactly, but it was more manageable for Tree Lafferty to spend Arizona summers unhoused when she was younger. As Lafferty aged, sitting on the […]
New database tracks deaths in ICE detention; 4 in Arizona
Deaths in immigration detention have skyrocketed under the Trump administration, with more than 50 people dying while in civil detention across the country since Trump took office. Four people died […]
“They Were Genuinely Who They Were”: Tucson Remembers Venture-N Shooting Victims
By sunset, the memorial at Venture-N had grown from just a couple of candles to an entire section of the wall lined with flowers, candles and offerings, with people coming […]
“Tucson is Pachuco territory”: Luis Valdez’s story comes home to The Loft Cinema
“Tucson is Pachuco territory.” It’s not something a historian says or a phrase you’ll find on a map. But it’s known to David Alvarado, director of “American Pachuco: The Legend […]
“Tucson es territorio pachuco”: la historia de Luis Valdez llega a casa en The Loft Cinema
“Tucson es territorio pachuco”. No es algo que diga un historiador ni una frase que encontrarás en un mapa. Pero es algo que conoce David Alvarado, director de “American Pachuco: […]
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The Arizona Board of Regents went more than five months without a full financial update on the state’s three public universities after ABOR failed to deliver a required fourth-quarter status report for Fiscal Year 2025, according to an Arizona Auditor General sunset review released last week. The late quarterly report also omitted a required comparison of universities’ actual year-end cash to their projections, coming a year after the University of Arizona’s roughly $177 million budget shortfall prompted ABOR to adopt stricter financial oversight rules. ABOR has agreed to the finding and says it will now send quarterly reports outside of scheduled board meetings, when needed, to stay on time.
Theater workers at the Loft Cinema voted Aug. 28 to ratify their first contract with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 415, covering roughly 20 employees in box office, concessions, projection, purchasing and operations. Three days later, about 20 full-time production workers at Arizona Theatre Company — including carpenters, painters, and lighting, video and audio technicians — ratified their own first contract with the union. Both agreements include wage increases, expanded benefits and guaranteed hours.
The Water Resources Research Center will host a Zoom webinar on how AI data centers’ energy use ties to water consumption, arguing that efficiency gains in chip design and computing methods double as water-conservation measures, at noon Sept. 8. Speaker David Ebert, the University of Arizona’s chief AI and data science officer, will make the case that arid regions like Arizona actually hold advantages for data center cooling design. Register.
The Arizona Institute for Resilience is hosting an afternoon symposium on water, weather and Indigenous resilience, followed by an evening reception with food and live music, on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Details and registration.
The city of Tucson is seeking input on shelter housing rules. The Drachman Institute at the University of Arizona and the city’s Planning and Development Services Department are hosting public feedback exhibits on how zoning code regulates emergency shelters, ahead of a planned code amendment. Sessions include interactive maps and displays on where shelter housing should be located and how it should be defined. The Fourth Avenue Coalition Space hosts one Sunday, Sept. 13, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Park Place Mall’s central exhibit space runs Oct. 2-4; and a virtual session is set for Thursday, Sept. 24, 5:30-7 p.m. (registration required for the virtual session). All sessions are free. RSVP.
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