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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

Feb 19 City Council Meetings: Bus Fare Hike, Ronstadt Transit Center Redevelopment

At the Feb. 19 study session and evening meeting, the Tucson City Council will consider two issues that could greatly affect bus service in our town. During the study session, … Continue reading →

February 18, 2014

Ronstadt Center Re-Development: When Is a Public Process Not Public?

More than 90 days have passed since the Tucson City Council voted to begin a 60-90 day public comment period to gather information and ideas related to the proposed re-development … Continue reading →

May 25, 2013 · 1 Comment

Will the Tucson City Council Throw the Bus Riders Under the Bus?

With pressure from developers and the budget, the Tucson City Council once again is considering decisions which would reduce– or at least hinder– bus transportation. Today, Tuesday, May 7, at … Continue reading →

May 7, 2013 · 2 Comments

Ronstadt Transit Center: City, Developers Ponder Proverbial Political Football (video)

Anyone who has lived in Tucson long enough knows that the vitality of downtown has ebbed and flowed with the winds of politics and the fortunes of capitalism. Thanks to … Continue reading →

April 10, 2013 · 10 Comments

Tucson City Council Votes to Abolish Corporate Personhood (video)

The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Citizens United and proclaimed that corporations are people, they have the right to free speech, and, by the way, money equals speech. That was … Continue reading →

June 24, 2012 · 4 Comments

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

We are the 99%.

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

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

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

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.)

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

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

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

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

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

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

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

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

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

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

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

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

Protesting cuts to education

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

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

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

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.)

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

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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.

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

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

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.”

Tucson Progressive

Category Archives: Richard Fimbres

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

Broadway Widening: Comment Deadline, Flash Mob & Council Vote

Feb 19 City Council Meetings: Bus Fare Hike, Ronstadt Transit Center Redevelopment

Ronstadt Center Re-Development: When Is a Public Process Not Public?

Will the Tucson City Council Throw the Bus Riders Under the Bus?

Ronstadt Transit Center: City, Developers Ponder Proverbial Political Football (video)

Tucson City Council Votes to Abolish Corporate Personhood (video)

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