Posted November 12, 2015
The Tucson Police Department and other agencies are hosting a free event Saturday to help seniors stay safe and avoid scams. It will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the La Quinta Inn, 102 N. Alvernon Way.
Posted November 10, 2015
On Thursday, November 12, 2015, as part of the Campbell Avenue Streetscape Enhancement Project, crews from Mountain Power will replace the traffic signals and traffic signal poles at the Campbell Avenue and Glenn Street intersection.
Tucson Police Department officers will direct traffic through the intersection from 10:30 a.m. to noon. One southbound travel lane on Campbell Avenue and one eastbound lane on Glenn Street at the intersection will be closed during the work.
Posted November 10, 2015
This morning the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the City of Tucson in a case challenging the constitutionality of the City's elections process. Tucson uses a hybrid election system established by voters in 1929, where residents vote only in their ward for primary elections and citywide in the general election when selecting the mayor and council members. In a 2-1 decision, the panel of judges reversed the district court's earlier ruling in favor of the City. Today's ruling will not affect last Tuesday's election results.
Posted November 10, 2015
The Tucson Police Department (TPD) is holding two Coffee with a Cop events on Thursday. There is no planned agenda, other than a simple time to ask questions, voice concerns, and meet the police officers who serve the area. The midtown gathering will take place from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Starbucks, 4811 E. Grant Road. The eastside event will take place from 5-7 p.m. at Kneaders Bakery & Cafe, 135 S. Wilmot Road.
Posted November 10, 2015
The 2017 Site Selectors Guild Annual Conference will be held in Tucson. The guild members assist businesses in finding locations to relocate or expand. Ten locations in Arizona were considered as part of a statewide proposal. Conference attendance is limited to about 350 people, many of whom are economic development professionals looking to network with site selector consultants. Guild members have been involved in many large projects in the region, most recently with the location of the HomeGoods distribution center.
Posted November 10, 2015
The University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Science's annual Downtown Lecture Series finishes up this week. The theme of this year's series focuses on immortality. The final lecture features Shaun Nichols speaking about "The Elusive Self in Life and Death." Professor Nichols will discuss his findings after he and his research team spent months exploring attitudes toward death among Hindus and Tibetan Buddhists in India. The lecture runs from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Fox Tucson Theatre.
Posted November 10, 2015
Downtown Tucson will be the host of the annual Veterans Day Parade on Wednesday, November 11, 2015. The parade will stage on West Alameda Street between Granada Avenue and Manning House Way beginning at 9 a.m. The parade begins at 11 a.m., and proceeds east on West Alameda Street and turns north on Stone Avenue to Franklin Street, then turns west on Franklin Street to Church Avenue. At Church Avenue, the parade turns north to Sixth Street/ St. Mary’s Road, proceeds west on Sixth Street/ St. Mary’s Road, then turns south on Granada Avenue and ends at Franklin Street.
Posted November 10, 2015
On Wednesday, November 11, 2015, crews from Southern Arizona Paving, under contract with the City of Tucson Department of Transportation (TDOT), will begin work to reconstruct Old Spanish Trail from Melpomene Way to Houghton Road.
Crews will begin the project with the lowering of manhole covers and water valve covers. Lowering the manhole and valve covers is scheduled to be complete by Thursday, November 12, 2015. Work will take place from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.
Posted November 10, 2015
On Wednesday, November 11, 2015, crews from Southern Arizona Paving, under contract with the City of Tucson Department of Transportation (TDOT), will begin work to reconstruct Old Spanish Trail from Melpomene Way to Houghton Road.
Posted November 9, 2015
Tucson is listed as the fourth best city in the United States to hold a conference, according to SmartAsset.com. The financial website reviewed data from the Hotels.com® Hotel Price Index™ (HPI™) and other sources on the costs and convenience of attending a conference in 25 major U.S. cities. The analysis incorporated nine metrics, including the number of major hotels, the average cost of a hotel room, the violent crime rate, and the distance from the airport to the city center.
Posted November 9, 2015
The City of Tucson will observe the Veterans Day holiday this Wednesday. Except for emergency services, all City offices will be closed, and residential and commercial trash and recycling will not be collected on that day. City of Tucson residential and commercial customers with regular Wednesday, Thursday or Friday collections will have their service delayed by one day.
The Los Reales Landfill will be open.
Posted November 9, 2015
A group calling itself Mexican-American Heritage and Preservation in Southern Arizona will hold a panel discussion this Thursday at the University of Arizona's Student Union (Catalina Room). The 6:30 p.m. event will include a number of panelists discussing the Mexican-American community's contributions to Tucson and how to best preserve the history that remains. Pima County Supervisor Richard Elías will moderate the panel.
Posted November 9, 2015
Tucson Water is seeking a Senior Engineering Technician to join its Planning & Engineering Division. Experience with computer-aided drafting and design software/geographical information systems (GIS) is required.
Duties include creating and maintaining detailed construction plans, survey data, legal descriptions and exhibits, maps, and other documents.
The deadline to apply is tomorrow. Read more in the job description.
Posted November 9, 2015
If you'd like to track the Sun Link streetcar and you have a smartphone, you're in luck. The Tucson Streetcar Tracker, developed by Dallan Porter at the University of Arizona, is useful if you want to figure out how long it will take for the streetcar to show up at the stop where you're waiting. The app was developed using open data provided by Sun Link.
Posted November 8, 2015
Work to mill, crack seal and repave Campbell Avenue from Fort Lowell Road to Glenn Street that was scheduled to begin on Monday, November 9, 2015, has been postponed until later this year.
Crews from Sunland Asphalt, under contract with the City of Tucson Department of Transportation (TDOT), have completed lowering manhole covers and water valve covers on Campbell Avenue.
