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Why Can’t the Ronstadt Center Be an Open-Air Transit & Community Space?

Do you remember the controversy surrounding redevelopment of the Ronstadt Transit Center? Back in 2013-2014, developers were making a play to redevelopment the Ronstadt Transit Center. They had pitched redevelopment of the … Continue reading →

August 7, 2019

Broadway Widening: Comment Deadline, Flash Mob & Council Vote

The Broadway widening project is bumping up against yet another deadline and vote at the Mayor and Council Meeting– this time on April 19. In advance of Tuesday’s vote the … Continue reading →

April 15, 2016

Broadway Widening… Again! How Many Times Do the People Have to Say ‘NO!’

Remember all of those public meetings in which the citizens of Tucson said they don’t want Broadway Blvd turned into a massive eight-lane highway? Or how many times we said … Continue reading →

April 5, 2016 · 1 Comment

#TBT: Remembering the Day Tucson Launched SunLinks (video)

This weekend Tucson is celebrating the launch of the SunLinks modern street car in July 2014. Hundreds of Tucsonans stood in the sweltering summer sun to watch politicians, the UA … Continue reading →

July 23, 2015

June 9 City Council Meeting: Broadway Coalition Redux #10? (I’ve Lost Count)

How wide should Broadway Blvd. be between the Snake Bridge and Country Club Rd? This seems like a never-ending question, but today– June 9– is a big day. Today, the … Continue reading →

June 9, 2015 · 1 Comment

UPDATED: Broadway Widening Redux: March 26 Meeting on ‘Community Alignment’

The beleaguered Citizens Task Force (CTF) of the Broadway Widening Project revolted at last week’s meeting and didn’t approve the city staff plan for widening Broadway Blvd. because it didn’t … Continue reading →

March 26, 2015 · 1 Comment

Tucson City Council: Ill-Conceived Ordinances Wiped from Agenda (video)

The Tucson City Council was scheduled to vote on two ill-conceived ordinances at their St. Patrick’s Day meeting this week. The Crowd Management Event ordinance would have given the police chief … Continue reading →

March 20, 2015 · 1 Comment

A giant poet’s head made up of stainless steel letters marks the stop near the UA Poetry Center.

Despite the sweltering heat, Jim and I had a great time at the Labor Day Picnic. We collected a lot of Clean Elections $5 donations and signatures. Here I am with LD9 chair Michael Dues.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

Protesting cuts to education

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

Arizonans for New Economy co-directors Jim Hannley and Pamela Powers Hannley with UA Tech Park VP Bruce Wright.

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

Occupy encampment in Armory Park– before it was cleared out in the middle of the night by Tucson Police.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with members of the Tucson Chapter of NOW on opening day at the Arizona Legislature, 2018.

Rev. Ron Phares and Pamela Powers Hannley

Jim and I were part of a contingent of Unitarian Universalists who came up from Tucson. Here I am with Rev. Ron Phares from the Mountain Vista UU Church in my district. (Jim is photobombing us.)

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

In the 1980s, the Tucson Weekly called Tucson the “Baked Apple”.

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

Protesters hand deliver symbolic big check from corporate American to McCain.

John Nichols of ‘The Nation’ addressed progressives and unionists at a Tucson event.

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This is a broken sink in the Ladies’ Room at the Arizona State Building in downtown Tucson. One of the elevators also was broken. It’s time to fix Arizona government.

Rep. Sally Ann Gonzales and I were interviewed by NBC at the Phoenix rally.

Giving the LD9 update at the June meeting. What a great crowd!

I have a background in research. Help me build Tucson’s tech industry and grow our own local businesses.

#RedForEd teachers and supporters in the Arizona House Gallery, 2018.

PDA Tucson Coordinator Jim Hannley speaks against both the crowd management ordinance and the urban camping ban at the City Council meeting.

Governor Ducey had proposed increasing prison beds and funding, while cutting education. Protesters took issue with that short-sighted idea.

There have been many lively debates in the Arizona House in 2018. This team of House Democrats fought for consumer protections and fought against risky financial deals in a “regulatory sandbox.” (Pictured are Reps. Mitzi Epstein, Kelli Butler, Athena Salman, Pamela Powers Hannley, Ken Clark and Isela Blanc.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

Visiting with PALF chairman Fred Yamashita at the 2016 Labor Day Picnic.

Ironically, I posted this blog post on the anniversary of this election on June 19. 1970ish.

We often hear that corporations need migrant workers because Americans “don’t want to do these jobs.” When I hear this statement, I picture farm workers picking vegetables. Recently, I toured two dairies and an animal feed packing plant in Pinal County. The photo above from the Zinke Dairy shows a giant cow milking carousel. Nine migrant workers milk 4000 cows three times a day at this dairy. Legislators watched the two men pictured here– working at a brisk pace– bend over and pick up, lift, and attach large electronic suction cups to the cows as they ride the carousel around the giant facility. This level of automation is the wave of the future for industrial jobs.

It was truly a honor to meet Nevada State Senator Patricia Spearman (center) in October and to confer with her regarding our efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Arizona. Spearman led the successful Nevada efforts to ratify the ERA in 2017. Here we are with activist and NOW leader Dainne Post after the ERA workshop at the We the People Conference in Phoenix. There are a lot of Arizona women who are ready to make history in 2018. Watch my blog here and my Facebook page here for ERA updates.

We are the 99%.

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

The Living Economy event was very informative; we had a great time hob-nobbing. My husband Jim is a small business owner and a member of Local First Arizona. I have owned two small businesses in the past– Powers/Queen Associates and Wind Dancer Design. We support Local First Arizona and buying/investing locally. We believe that supporting local small businesses with low-interest loans through a public/private partnership between a public bank and community banks and credit unions is the sustainable route to improving our local economy. Trickle down economics doesn’t work; it’s time for new ideas.

PDA members, including Advisory Board Chair Mimi Kennedy, protested food stamp cuts in front of Congressman Henry Waxman’s office.

Jobs with Justice marching with Occupy Tucson in support of postal workers.

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The Tucson Progressive: Pamela J. Powers

I stand on the side of Love. I believe in kindness to all creatures on Earth and the inherent self-worth of all individuals–not just people who agree with me or look like me.

Widespread economic and social injustice prompted me to become a candidate for the Arizona House, representing Legislative District 9 in the 2016 election.

My platform focused on economic reforms to grow Arizona’s economy, establish a state-based public bank, fix our infrastructure, fully fund public education, grow local small businesses and community banks, and put people back to work at good-paying jobs.

In the Arizona House, I was a strong voice for fiscal responsibility a moratorium on corporate tax breaks until the schools were fully funded, increased cash assistance to the poor, expansion of maternal healthcare benefits, equal rights, choice, unions, education at all levels and protecting our water supply.

After three terms, I retired from the Arizona Legislature in January 2023 but will continue to blog and produce my podcast “A View from the Left Side.”

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Category Archives: Jonathan Rothschild

Why Can’t the Ronstadt Center Be an Open-Air Transit & Community Space?

Broadway Widening: Comment Deadline, Flash Mob & Council Vote

Broadway Widening… Again! How Many Times Do the People Have to Say ‘NO!’

#TBT: Remembering the Day Tucson Launched SunLinks (video)

June 9 City Council Meeting: Broadway Coalition Redux #10? (I’ve Lost Count)

UPDATED: Broadway Widening Redux: March 26 Meeting on ‘Community Alignment’

Tucson City Council: Ill-Conceived Ordinances Wiped from Agenda (video)

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