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Latest Tim Steller columns

Steller: Incremental progress made on Tucson homelessness as programs open

Steller: Incremental progress made on Tucson homelessness as programs open

  • Tim Steller

It's hard not to despair over intractable problems, but local people are trying new approaches to homelessness.

Friday Notebook: University politics emerge in Arizona regent's secret recording

Friday Notebook: University politics emerge in Arizona regent's secret recording

  • Tim Steller

Testy exchange shows just how much some GOP lawmakers revile the state board.

Steller: Yes, you're worried about death, University of Arizona researchers show

Steller: Yes, you're worried about death, University of Arizona researchers show

  • Tim Steller

Even when we're not conscious of it, we react in ways to fend off the big inevitability.

Steller: Danger of 'civility' being used as pretext to shut down debate

Steller: Danger of 'civility' being used as pretext to shut down debate

  • Tim Steller

The attacks in Virginia last week revived the "civil discourse" effort that began in Tucson.

Steller's Notebook: Tucson spirals down the symbolic toilet

Steller's Notebook: Tucson spirals down the symbolic toilet

  • Tim Steller

Trump's symbolic border wall led to symbolic resolutions against it and a final symbolic counter-resolution.

Steller: State pays $393K for 'slut-shaming' defense of former Arizona Wildcats track coach

Steller: State pays $393K for 'slut-shaming' defense of former Arizona Wildcats track coach

  • Tim Steller

Taxpayers may also be subsidizing countersuit against former athlete and her lawyer.

Steller's Notebook: McCain’s questioning a red flag for constituents

Steller's Notebook: McCain’s questioning a red flag for constituents

  • Tim Steller

The senator's questioning of former FBI director James Comey made little sense.

Steller: Medical marijuana can help Arizona address opioid problem

Steller: Medical marijuana can help Arizona address opioid problem

    The state can do one simple thing to improve access to medical marijuana — reduce fees.

    Steller: Bribery isolated, but system corrupted in Arizona

    Steller: Bribery isolated, but system corrupted in Arizona

      The bribery indictment of big Phoenix political players should awaken us to systemic legal corruption.

      Tim Steller's Notebook: Dems sense opportunity against Martha McSally

      Tim Steller's Notebook: Dems sense opportunity against Martha McSally

        Mary Sally Matiella, a former high-ranking official in the U.S. Army, is exciting some Democrats.

        Steller: In Tucson’s sizzling summer, not just any hat will do

        Steller: In Tucson’s sizzling summer, not just any hat will do

          An exacting consumer searches for the perfect workaday Tucson chapeau.

          Steller: Tucson becomes unsafe haven for accused Sonoran officials

          Steller: Tucson becomes unsafe haven for accused Sonoran officials

            The Old Pueblo has long been a place for Sonorans, Sinaloans to own second homes, for shopping or lying low.

            Steller's Notebook: Ramon Valadez says he'll call Ally Miller's bluff on Pima County sales tax

            Steller's Notebook: Ramon Valadez says he'll call Ally Miller's bluff on Pima County sales tax

              Miller surprises supervisors by expressing conditional support for a new sales tax for roads. Plus other topics.

              Steller: UA shouldn't be allowed to bypass rezoning for megadorm

              It's a good time to lay down some ground rules for the growing UA domain in the heart of the city.

              Steller: School arrests are a dubious method of student discipline

              Steller: School arrests are a dubious method of student discipline

              12-year-old arrested by Tucson police in case that also led to arrest of counselor, administrator

              Steller's Notebook: County officials feel Tucson voters can't handle the truth

              Steller's Notebook: County officials feel Tucson voters can't handle the truth

              At least that's the message sent by Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry.

              Steller: Politics killed funding for Jan. 8 memorial that's needed now

              Steller: Politics killed funding for Jan. 8 memorial that's needed now

              We need a place like this, that celebrates civic participation in government while memorializing those who were killed and wounded six years ago.

              Steller: Leave Tucson, Pima County out of airline subsidies

              Steller: Leave Tucson, Pima County out of airline subsidies

              There's a way to guarantee revenue for nonstop flights without dipping into general funds.

              Tim Steller's Friday Notebook: Time for Arizona senators to stand up to Trump

              Tim Steller's Friday Notebook: Time for Arizona senators to stand up to Trump

              While Trump is mired in the FBI mess, Democrats circle Martha McSally in CD 2 — and much more. 

              Steller: Partisans win at Legislature, limiting teachers' gains

              Steller: Partisans win at Legislature, limiting teachers' gains

              Democrats made a play for relevance, but in the end the GOP had the power.

              Notebook: Tucson principals contrast in views of school rankings

              Notebook: Tucson principals contrast in views of school rankings

              Basis head of school celebrated, while UHS principal waxed ambivalent in letters to parents.

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              Tucson gunman's cousin says he never heard anti-gay sentiments from him

              Gunman left note about hate; recently moved to Tucson, no connection to victims

              Gunman left note about hate; recently moved to Tucson, no connection to victims

              143 arrested as Border Patrol targets truckers in Arizona

              143 arrested as Border Patrol targets truckers in Arizona

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              Steller: New downtown buildings, old brick an unfortunate mismatch

              Steller: New downtown buildings, old brick an unfortunate mismatch

              Fans of downtown's old brick buildings can only hope for complementary new buildings.

              Steller: Tucson neighborhood deserved notification of child killer's release

              Steller: Tucson neighborhood deserved notification of child killer's release

              William Huff, who killed two Sierra Vista girls in 1967, has been living in Tucson for more than a year.

              Steller: Chinese prison laborer's cry for help reaches Southern Arizona

              Steller: Chinese prison laborer's cry for help reaches Southern Arizona

              A simple note hidden in a purse reveals the true cost of the cheap goods we buy.

              Steller: McSally tinkers with fatally flawed health-care bill

              Steller: McSally tinkers with fatally flawed health-care bill

              The Affordable Care Act is not "collapsing under its own weight," so it doesn't need a bad replacement.

              Steller: Arizona moves closer to rewarding good schools in poor areas

              Steller: Arizona moves closer to rewarding good schools in poor areas

              Slowly, the Phoenix power structure is recognizing that if you pay schools for good test scores, you just reward the rich.

              Steller: Resting easy impossible for 'Dreamers' under Trump

              Steller: Resting easy impossible for 'Dreamers' under Trump

              The president ought to give real reassurances so DACA recipients can live without fear.

              Tim Steller's Notebook: O'Reilly's priority on TV show was always O'Reilly

              Tim Steller's Notebook: O'Reilly's priority on TV show was always O'Reilly

              The $25 million firing of Bill O'Reilly this week got me thinking about the one time I was on his show.

              Steller: We might have a firefighter problem; we definitely have a domestic-violence problem

              Steller: We might have a firefighter problem; we definitely have a domestic-violence problem

              The Friday night shootings at an upscale restaurant shocked Tucson but are just the latest of many domestic-violence killings

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