Yesterday was the 14th annual Tee Up For Tots (TUFT) golf tournament, which raises money for pediatric cancer research. Golfers on both the front and back nine of Omni Tucson National Golf Resort spent the morning playing 18 holes, then coming in for a fantastic “19th hole” lunch party, at which time it was announced that […]
The perfect spot to watch a fabulous southern Arizona sunset is Gates Pass in the Tucson Mountains. This photo taken at the tail end of a sunset, captures the ethereal quality the wispy clouds and piercing stars exhibited that night. I decided to include the ramada, which seemed to add to the somewhat Twilight Zone feeling […]
Eighty-three years ago today (August 15, 1929), Joseph Baermann Strauss was appointed Chief Engineer for the Golden Gate Bridge project. His original bridge design was for a cantilever-suspension hybrid, but by the time it went into production, that design changed to the full-suspension bridge we all know. When the bridge opened in 1937 it was the […]
In February of 2010, Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation Ray LaHood came to Tucson to present us with a check for $63 million dollars in federal stimulus money to fund our downtown modern streetcar project. On April 12, 2012 the Regional Transportation Authority broke ground on the 3.9 mile streetcar line that will link […]
My son is now almost 21, but when he was about ten he modelled (wearing the green helmet) in this public service announcement for bicycle safety that the Tucson Police Department sponsored. I recently came across the image again and it reminded me that it’s that time of year when the year-round school districts are back […]
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