An Icon Rides in Tucson

By Tyler Salas/El Inde In the heat of the Sonoran desert, sits a small glass building amidst a busy intersection and endless construction. An unassuming luxury car dealership, once one steps inside there’s a coffee machine, dozens of pieces of memorabilia and clothing, and a large LCD screen mounted up high showing scenes of their…

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Building and Fixing Guitars for 32 years

By Jake O’Rourke/El Inde A balmy Tucson breeze made its way through the open door of Gordon Groves’ southside workshop. He was in a sharp trance using a white-tipped pencil to trace abalone stone inlays. He will put the inlays into the ebony fretboard of a 12-fret dreadnought, a style of acoustic guitar featuring a…

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GOP ‘smart’ ballot drop boxes would come with a hefty price tag, if they’re ever created

By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Republicans hope to replace outside ballot drop boxes with “smart” boxes that don’t yet exist and will cost 500% more than the ones that Arizona counties already use, based on the unfounded claim that ballot-box stuffing helped steal the election from former President Trump. While current drop boxes…

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