Last Saturday night, the Tucson Police Department dispatched about 140 officers in riot gear to the scene where a crowd of what police said was “several hundred” people had gathered on University Boulevard during the University of Arizona’s nail-biting loss to Wisconsin. It isn’t clear yet how and when trouble started, but it escalated after…
Monday began with the unveiling of a statue of Barry Goldwater in the rotunda of the Capital Museum. It was an appropriate unveiling — on the same day a conservative budget was to be discussed by the Senate. But first, bills that were amended by the House had to go through the Appropriations Committee. The…
The experience starts the moment someone spots the truck. “It’s kind of in your face, and that’s what I like about it. It’s hard to ignore a giant glowing truck,” Nikki Welch said. This giant glowing truck is Planet Rabbit and Broken Arrow Boutique: a mobile art gallery turned vintage boutique in downtown Tucson. All…
The image of some fraternity social events has come a long way from the standard Saturday night kegger in the party room, or the sudsy bacchanals presided over by John Belushi’s toga-clad Bluto Blutarsky (“G.P.A.: 0.0”) at the fictional Delta house in the 1978 movie “Animal House.” Instead, imagine taking over a portion of a…
How did things get out of control on University Boulevard in Tucson on the Saturday night after the University of Arizona loss to Wisconsin, when several videos showing what appeared to be police overreaction to a boisterous gathering of University of Arizona students went viral nationally? The question is sensitive, as the Tucson Police Department…
