Good news, Arizona: we don't appear to be the only one needlessly bothering transgendered people. Hooray?

According to the Huffington Post (via Idaho's KLEW-TV), Ally Robledo was cited for trespassing on April 8, after customers complained about her use of a women's restroom.

"A male subject ... was using the female restroom, and that made some women customers uncomfortable because of the appearance that a male was using their restroom," Lewiston Police Captain Roger Lanier said, according to KLEW.

Robledo told the station that she has already undergone one gender re-assignment surgery. In the past, Robledo said using male restrooms led to feelings of embarrassment and harassment, and that she sometimes she even feared for her safety.

"I'm a female trapped in a man's body," Robledo said, according to Reuters. "It's natural for me to go to the ladies' room. Getting the no trespassing order for a public restroom was really painful."

Lanier stressed that "store employees didn't want any further problems" and have the right under Idaho state law to refuse service. Customers had complained because someone was urinating standing up, according to Reuters.

As you might have noticed, our fair state hasn't exactly been kind to transgendered folks as of late, considering Rep. John Kavanagh has people doing their business HIS business. According to the Phoenix New Times, he dropped his support of his original strike-everything measure, S.B. 1423 and has, as of late, been pursuing another strike-everything bill in S.B. 1045, which (as of its passage of Kavanagh's House Appropriations Committee on March 27) would nullify the City of Phoenix's non-discrimination protections in late February.

Talking Point Memo breaks down the path to citizenship and the new metrics of border security in the Gang of Eight's comprehensive immigration reform package. The takeaway:

After months of vague talking points about creating a “path to citizenship” versus a “special path to citizenship” versus “amnesty,” the Senate’s “Gang of 8” finally has an immigration bill ready. And, much to the relief of immigration advocates, there is a relatively clear and reliable process for today’s 11 million undocumented residents to eventually become citizens.

That’s good news for the immigrant rights community. But it also means the Republican members of the gang — Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), John McCain (R-AZ), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — have a difficult path ahead convincing a skeptical party that these features are necessary to passing a final bill. Or as one immigration lawyer sympathetic to reform put it to TPM: “Rubio is going to get crucified for agreeing to this.”

Chris Bianco could have opened his second pizzeria anywhere in the world.

He picked downtown Tucson.

• Claire Lawton/Courtesy Phoenix New Times
• Chris Bianco: "Tucson has been one of my favorite places, for a lot of different reasons.”

Bianco hopes to be up and running near Congress Street and Fifth Avenue (between comfort-food HUB and the nightclub Playground) sometime in November.

Bianco has running Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix for nearly two decades and was a step ahead of downtown revitalization there, opening in Heritage Square in 1996. His menu is small—just a half-dozen pizzas, a trio of salads and handful of small plates and side dishes—but the praise has been large. Bianco is the first pizza chef to have won a James Beard award. GQ has credited Bianco with launching the artisan pizza movement. Bon Appetit declared the pie to be the best in the nation. (It’s also considered the best in the world by Tucson Weekly editor Dan Gibson, who will explain his reasoning in this week's print edition.)

Bianco has been praised for his care in combining fresh, quality ingredients from his own garden and local suppliers for everything from the dough to the toppings.

“You learn to take your own sense of what makes something good,” Bianco says. “It’s about celebrating your backyard. … When we get to Tucson, I think there will be an even bigger opportunity to do it.”

While he’s not yet ready to reveal all the relationships he’s building with local suppliers here, Bianco says “my back door has always been open to farmers and people to bring what they’ve got to show up. You show up with some local peaches and I guarantee you, I’ll find a way to put them in a salad.”

Outline of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013

Courtesy of Talking Points Memo: A summary of the Gang of Eight's immigration-reform plan.

Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona announced yesterday via Facebook that he would not support the compromise on background checks on gun sales hammered out by Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Flake's comment:

Here are a few thoughts: Manchin-Toomey would expand background checks far beyond commercial sales to include almost all private transfers — including between friends and neighbors — if the posting or display of the ad for a firearm was made public. It would likely even extend to message boards, like the one in an office kitchen. This simply goes too far.

I support background checks. In fact, I believe background checks need to be strengthened, particularly as they relate to those with mental illness. To this end I’ve cosponsored S.480 with Senators Graham, Begich, and Pryor clarifying who should not be able to obtain a firearm due to mental illness. I believe our approach is preferable, and more workable, than the mental illness provisions in Manchin-Toomey.

I have a great deal of respect for Senators Manchin and Toomey. I believe they are coming at this issue with the best of intentions.

But I will oppose the Manchin-Toomey amendment.

Sen. John McCain told CNN's State of the Union that he was "very favorably disposed" toward supporting the compromise:

This was washed over due to most of the day's events, but it's worth paying attention to: Arizona's own Sen. John McCain stated that he believes the United States should take down the next test missile that North Korea launches, as soon as it leaves their airspace.

From the Senator's office:

As the world waits to see whether North Korea will act on its threat to test launch a medium-range ballistic missile, I maintain that the United States should treat any North Korean missile launch as a threat to our national security and our allies, and that we should shoot it down once it leaves North Korean airspace. North Korea’s leaders should have no doubt that the United States of America has both the capability and the will to eliminate the threats they seek to pose to international peace and stability.

As anyone who is paying attention would note, McCain has held a hard-line position against North Korea, saying that Kim Jong Un is "a clown" and "a fool"; that China needs to buckle North Korea's economy if Kim continues to develop the country's nuclear program; and was quoted after Kim Jong Il's death, "I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Gaddafi, Bin Laden, Hitler, and Stalin in a warm corner of hell."

Patton Oswalt is one of the funniest comedians around — and he's also just a damn decent human being, writing one of the most poignant, hopeful notes of the day regarding the explosions at the Boston Marathon.

It's presented below, in full. Check out Oswalt's Facebook or Twitter for more from him — including what I'll assume was the quote that inspired his post, from Mister Rogers.

Boston. Fucking horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

It didn't take long at all once reports started coming in about the explosions at the Boston Marathon.

For the uninitiated, a false flag attack is one in whcih a country or organization carries out an attack under the guise of another country or organization — shuffling the blame off to another party, basically.

And since the shootings in Newtown, it seems to be the conspiracy theorists' phrase of the moment — any mass violent act is possibly, probably, more than likely associated with the government, who is making an effort to cover your eyes and ears, feeding you information that conforms to the truth they want you to believe. Don't believe the lame-stream media.

Whatever. The fact remains that there's a section of the Internet that is convinced that the government is behind the explosions at the Boston Marathon — or at the very least, they have a suspicion:

Yet another false flag operation courtesy the United States government.. #marathonbombing

— Amerikan Politiks™ (@amerikanpolitik) April 15, 2013

Who are America going to go to war with now over this #FalseFlag Another Muslim country or even Korea? #WakeUpPeople & do your research

— #JFT96(@WarriorLFC) April 15, 2013

And of course, from Alex Jones, the guy behind Infowars:

Our hearts go out to those that are hurt or killed #Boston marathon - but this thing stinks to high heaven #falseflag

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) April 15, 2013

But we can't be completely negative — that just leads to bad feelings. Thus, I present the best "false flag" tweet that I've seen all day:

"False flag" is a secret code for "I'm a bellend"

— Paul Smith (@compu73E) April 15, 2013

(Also, in case you don't get "bell end", Urban Dictionary has you covered.)

The Town of Sahuarita will be going through a major leadership change in the next month, with longtime Town Manager Jim Stahle leaving the post he's held since 2001.

Stahle won't be out of work for long, though, as he is expected to be approved as the next City Manager of Alamogordo, N.M. at a meeting of that community's City Commission this evening.

Stahle, 58, confirmed to the Tucson Weekly last week (during an interview for a story that will run April 25) that he was in negotiations to run the south-central New Mexico community of about 31,000. The Alamogordo City Commission scheduled a special meeting for this evening, with the lone agenda item revolving around appointment of a new City Manager.

The move eastward was prompted by the Sahuarita Town Council's decision last June to not renew Stahle's contract when it was set to expire in June 2013. The Council last week approved the hiring of Kelly Udall, currently the Town Manager in the White Mountains community of Pinetop-Lakeside, as Town Manager effective May 13.

Check out the Weekly's April 25 issue for more on Stahle's 12-year tenure at the helm of Sahuarita, a town that has grown from 3,200 residents to more than 26,000 in that timespan.

Multiple reports are saying that there have been multiple explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon injuring many people, though there have yet to be any fatalities reported.

BREAKING NEWS: At least dozens of people have been seriously injured, a Globe staffer on the scene says.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 15, 2013

Eyewitness: "Blood everywhere" after powerful explosions near Boston Marathon finish line.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 15, 2013

Just as a note, there are at least 38 people out of Tucson participating in this year's Boston Marathon, according to a searchable list of registrants at the Boston Athletic Association website. If you know of anyone in Boston attending or participating in the Marathon, let us know in the comments below or email us at [email protected].

We'll be updating throughout the day.

Update, 1:07 p.m. - This Vine clip has been circulating the Internet, caputuring news footage of one of the blasts.

Update, 1:10 p.m. - The Southern Arizona Roadrunners are asking for runners who have participated in the marathon to check in on their Facebook page here.

Update, 1:32 p.m. - The Associated Press is reporting that two are dead and 23 are injured as a result of the explosions. There has also been confirmation that the explosions were caused by bombs, and that two more devices were found and are in the process of being dismantled.

Update, 1:46 p.m. - Google.org has established a "person finder" for people to check in to and/or post information about friends and loved ones who may be caught in the confusion of the Boston Marathon explosions.

Update, 2:00 - AP reports that the Boston police commissioner has confirmed a third explosion at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The library, which is about 5 miles southeast of where the Boston Marathon's venue is, remains on fire.

Update, 4:03 - The Southern Arizona Roadrunners Facebook page has noted that 31 of the 47 Boston Marathon participants from Southern Arizona have checked in as of 3:45 p.m.

Update, 4:45 - According to the Boston Globe, the number of injured just keeps increasing:

Boston Marathon Toll rises even higher. More than 120 treated at 7 local hospitals.

— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 15, 2013