Pima County’s data-center pause should answer one question: What evidence will count?
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Karl Flessa
Special to the Arizona Daily Star
Water should not be a partisan issue. Where do your legislative candidates stand on these questions?
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Tamara Moots
Special to the Arizona Daily Star
Grandmother Tree did not survive the arrogance of the rich men who ordered her murder.
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Gary Becker, Betsy Bolding, Greg Hart, Mark Homan, Marco Liu, Fran McNeely, Bob Mohelnitzky, Bill Young
Special to the Arizona Daily Star
The following is the opinion and analysis of the writers:
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Alex Trimble Young
Special to the Arizona Republic
Trump's hunting executive order emphasizes access and tradition, but protecting hunting's future depends on conserving the public lands and wildlife habitat that sustain it.
- David DeGroot, Northwest side
I was one of the last to see the 200-year-old Grandmother Cottonwood Tree that blocked border wall construction at Lochiel, Arizona. As I stood under it on Oct. 4 I had a political thought, “This tree was probably a seedling when Thomas Jefferson was alive.”
- JOHN (JAY) VAN ECHO, PE, West side
My Catholic Church has been on the wrong side of moral, ethical, and spiritual life and culture many times. From the Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, slavery and anti-colonialism, anti-Semitism, clerical abuse cover-up, and yes, Trump Ver. 1 and 2., clergy and the Church has just plain been wr…
- Teresa Jenkins, SaddleBrooke
President Trump and the Republican Party don’t care if our air and water are clean, if our environment worsens, or if they are making life unsustainable.
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Neil P. Osnato
Special to the Arizona Daily Star
Pima County’s data-center pause should answer one question: What evidence will count?
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Karl Flessa
Special to the Arizona Daily Star
Water should not be a partisan issue. Where do your legislative candidates stand on these questions?
- Diana Newmark, Midtown
On October 3, the Daily Star announced that it will no longer produce a print edition on major holidays. This is a mistake, and I urge the Daily Star to reverse course. Holidays are when many of us gather with friends and family, bringing generations together for quality time. When the paper…
Editorial cartoons
So it appears we are not going to receive our print paper on legal holidays. I have to wonder what prompted this decision. Is it to give print staff and delivery people a paid day off? I hope so! Is it to save money on paper, ink and delivery to Tucson? It could be! Or is it to get us used t…
Although Downtown Tucson, including 4th Ave. is known for its rich Sonoran history, vibrant arts, music scene, and famous culinary culture, it has lost its appeal to citizens and visitors alike. The Star's own columnist Tim Steller recently has written that business is down for a number of r…
Students entering Ohio’s public universities this fall are the first four-year cohort expected to graduate under the state’s new American civic literacy requirement. Beginning with the spring 2030 graduating class, students must complete an approved three-credit course built around the Const…
Almost as soon as next month’s elections are over, arguments will begin about the lessons and implications for 2028. But one conclusion is already undeniable: Latinos are America’s new swing voters.
Having undermined the law and the Constitution with some terrible opinions in deference to President Donald Trump, this week brings the new U.S. Supreme Court term, and with it the risk that our nation’s highest judicial body will continue to make us a less fair, less moral and less safe society.
While every death is tragic, seven deaths nationally over the course of two years hardly sounds on its face like an epidemic. That is, until you consider the context: Those seven deaths since January 2025 were related to measles infections — and they represent more than twice as many measles…
Grandmother Tree did not survive the arrogance of the rich men who ordered her murder.
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Pima County’s data-center pause should answer one question: What evidence will count?
Water should not be a partisan issue. Where do your legislative candidates stand on these questions?
Students entering Ohio’s public universities this fall are the first four-year cohort expected to graduate under the state’s new American civic literacy requirement. Beginning with the spring 2030 graduating class, students must complete an approved three-credit course built around the Const…
Almost as soon as next month’s elections are over, arguments will begin about the lessons and implications for 2028. But one conclusion is already undeniable: Latinos are America’s new swing voters.
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I was one of the last to see the 200-year-old Grandmother Cottonwood Tree that blocked border wall construction at Lochiel, Arizona. As I stood under it on Oct. 4 I had a political thought, “This tree was probably a seedling when Thomas Jefferson was alive.”
My Catholic Church has been on the wrong side of moral, ethical, and spiritual life and culture many times. From the Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, slavery and anti-colonialism, anti-Semitism, clerical abuse cover-up, and yes, Trump Ver. 1 and 2., clergy and the Church has just plain been wr…
President Trump and the Republican Party don’t care if our air and water are clean, if our environment worsens, or if they are making life unsustainable.
Loss of cottonwood tree in Lochiel