Citizen Journalism

Most companies are legally required to be selfish.  That is, to put shareholder value over all other considerations including worker health, dangers to consumers, damage to the environment, or anything else. Enter the "B Corp" - a kind of company that can legally pay attention to what most

2011-06-20 The Huffington Post ran a hard-hitting article Jun 17:Did Arizona Education Chief Huppenthal Commit a Felony in Growing Ethnic Studies Scandal? Read it for yourself - the Tucson Weekly has posted a full PDF of the ethnic studies audit online The audit appears to be a thorough review

The cool thing about citizen journalism is you get to talk to really neat people. I talked to Randy Parraz, who led the Pearce recall effort, back in June.  His voice was a little raspy after talking to thousands of voters, and the day after turning in the petitions he

I didn't even know there is a strong effort out to recall Russell Pearce, the Arizona State Senator who has perhaps done the most harm to Arizona and to Tucson. ** Update - There were actually TWO efforts to recall pearce, and the first one posted, Arizonans for Better

Quite a bit, according to Jonathan Rothschild, the Democratic candidate apparent.  Rothschild, currently a $295/hr attorney, intends to drop out of his law practice and dedicate his 12-hour workdays to 'doing whatever it takes' to make Tucson thrive. We (myself and two of my daughters) interviewed Rothschild

Walking through Military Plaza park this afternoon, a small rally was in progress and I had a chance to talk to one of the volunteers for the campaign to Recall Jan Brewer.  It seems the campaign was started by a Republican!  And when the volunteer was making her calls asking

TUSD board member Judy Burns came out strongly last night in opposition to closing any more schools for a year, and instead spending the time to redraw boundaries and work with parents and communities.  Adelita Grijalva supported Burns and Hicks voted to at least vote on it; but Stegeman and

"Citizenship isn't just the possession of rights and responsibilities; it's a state of mind."  --Jess Zimbabwe, speaking at the 2010 Open Cities conference. It's your city.  Have at it. The Open Cities movement wants citizens to be more engaged with their city

Aung San Suu Kyi was interviewed on a contraband camera Partial transcript - read below to find what Aung San is asking us to do (transcribed from the video): [Question about her willingness to talk to a brutal and oppressive regime] "You have to talk to people if you