Legendary civil Walter Echo-Hawk will be making an appearance today at 6 p.m. in Room 164 of the James E. Rogers College of Law, 1201 E. Speedway Blvd., and is free and open to the public.

Beloved nonprofit downtown advocacy and recycling center Bicycle Inter-Community Art and Salvage is considering a move from its unique base of operations in the Dunbar Springs neighborhood.

“BICAS is preparing for its 25th anniversary,” BICAS administrative coordinator Kylie Walzak said in a phone interview. "We will be creating a series of events and fundraising opportunities to raise $200,000 and buy a new building. We have used up all 5,900 square feet at our current location and looking to expand."

The organization plans to find a new spot within two miles from the Citizen Warehouse.

“We want to stay close to our community,” Walzak said.

BICAS organizers has reached out to local estate broker Buzz Isaacson for locations, and advised Tucson City Council members Karin Uhlich and Regina Romero of their plans to relocate.

Everybody's favorite professor of (insert any humanities, classics or anthropology course-name here), David Soren, dishes on everybody's favorite director of movies that wake you up screaming, Alfred Hitchcock, at 1 p.m., today, at the Loft Cinema, for a special screening of the master's Saboteur.

Sid Hirsh, of Hirsch's Shoes of Tucson, presents "All You Want to Know About Shoes and More," from 10 to 11 a.m., Monday, Nov. 25. Hirsch's Shoes has been in business since 1954. The free talk takes place at Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center, 1660 W. Ruthrauff Road. Call 594-5225 for more info.

Dear Megan:

Maybe you can add this list to the bullying you feel you received after the piece you did on Washington State University and Pullman. But that's not my intention. In newspaper years, kinda like dog years, I'm an old lady, so look at this as a bit of advice, the kind of advice I give our interns and other young people trying to make their way into this business. I'd recommend a different path, but maybe we can talk about that over lunch sometime.

Like you, I got my start at the Arizona Daily Wildcat when I was attending the UA long, long ago. I loved my experience there, and know that that experience is a bit different for this new generation. I started off on the news desk, spent a summer doing layout and Police Beat and ended my time on the arts desk doing features and got my start as a theater critic. The Wildcat was my second home during my last two years of college and many of the people I worked with were like family.

Your story took me back to a time before the internet. I've been doing this for more than 20 years and only took five years off for a short stint in nonprofit work. I was in newspapers before desktop publishing. At the Wildcat, one of my last great editors always pissed people off with her editorials. One in particular was an experience the entire staff felt for several weeks. Back then, Lute Olson was being lured away by Kentucky and good ol' Lute said he'd stay if the UA gave him more money. Kind of like now, UA students were being stretched thin. Many of us were well-acquainted with Top Ramen, and my roommate and I shared an apartment in a Section 8 complex near Grant and Euclid. Great training for journalism life today.

The editor wrote that maybe the UA and Tucson had to face facts. Maybe we couldn't afford Lute Olson anymore and that he needed to move on. People freaked. The office had nonstop phone calls from angry Tucson residents. We had death threats and a few male staffers spent the night in the newsroom because some threatened to destroy our newsroom. We were worried. It was genuine. Our editor was calm, even as she was interviewed by AP, BBC, and local and other national news. Eventually everyone moved on and forgot about it, but I liked the fact that my editor stood up for what she wrote at the time, never flinched and never pointed fingers elsewhere. I mentioned it to her a couple of years ago when she was inducted into the Wildcat Hall of Fame, and she brushed it off.

Former state lawmaker Daniel Patterson, who resigned from the Arizona Legislature last year after a messy domestic situation capped a rocky legislative career, has filed a federal lawsuit against Tucson and Pima County officials, claiming that they violated his legislative immunity from civil law enforcement while the Legislature is in session.

Tim Hull of Courthouse News Service has the details:

Patterson has sued the Pima County Sheriff's Office, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, the City of Tucson and Tucson City Attorney Michael Rankin, in Federal Court.

He claims they violated his civil rights and deprived him of his right to legislative immunity guaranteed by the Arizona Constitution.

Patterson claims the negative press coverage of the incident and his subsequent legal troubles have left him in financial ruin and "unable to find employment in the area of politics or public policy."

Another detail from Hull's report:

The jive turkeys at Butterball might have ruined your Thanksgiving. Butterball, the world's largest turkey producer, announced that retailers will get half as many fresh never-frozen turkeys this year.

The company statement comes less than two weeks before the Thanksgiving holidays and could impact holiday meal plans coast-to-coast. When Butterball talks, holiday cooks listen. This year, Butterball will produce about 41 million turkeys – weighing a combined 1.2 billion pounds. Figure one in four Thanksgiving turkeys are Butterball.

The Humane Society of Southern Arizona presents Zuzu, a female, domestic medium hair. Zuzu is 2 1/2 years old.
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Regal Zuzu would love to find herself in your lap! This cashmere-soft sweetheart enjoys playing with toys, snuggling and bird watching from a sunny window. Although Zuzu adores her human friends, she would prefer a home without too many other animals. She appreciates her peace and quiet and would like to have her person all to herself. If you’re searching for loyal kitty to lavish in love, please get to know Zuzu today at the Humane Society of Southern Arizona! Call 327-6088 or visit HSSA at 3450 N. Kelvin Blvd.

Monday, Nov. 18, 2013
By ANNE M. SHEARER
Cronkite News Service

PHOENIX – Arizona is the seventh-least-affordable state for before-school/after-school child care, according to a study by a national advocacy group.

On average, such care cost an Arizona family $6,198 in 2012, according to Arlington, Va.-based Child Care Aware of America. The group measured the average cost against median income for a married couple – $70,149 in Arizona – to develop its rankings.

Only New York, Hawaii, Wyoming, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Arkansas were less affordable than Arizona, which tied with Kansas in the group’s study.

The study also reported that infant care in Arizona, an area in which the state ranked as 16th least affordable, is only 10 percent cheaper than tuition at a public university here: $8,671 for infant care versus $9,729 in average annual tuition.

Arizona ranked as 13th least affordable in child care for a 4-year-old, with care costing $7,398 on average.

Liz Barker Alvarez, senior director of communications for the state-funded education organization First Things First, said that without affordable access to quality early learning and child care children may suffer socially and academically.

Quality child care at a young age helps children build skills that are crucial for their success in school and life, she said.

“It really helps them build their soft skills, like self-esteem, self-regulation and decision-making,” she said.

Penelope Jacks, director of early childhood policy for the Children’s Action Alliance Arizona, said that the cost of child care is one of the biggest burdens on families.

I host a monthly comedy show at the The Loft Cinema called Viva La Viral.


I do some stand up and talk about pop culture and what's going in the world, and then my local Tucson celebrity/personality co-host will share some stories and their favorite viral videos. This month's special guest needs no introduction, but it's an honor to have Max Cannon on the show. He's the author of the weekly comic strip RED MEAT and host of The Loft's First Friday Shorts. TW sports writer Brian J. Pedersen wrote a cover story on the short film fest earlier this year. Cannon is one of my favorite cartoonist and someone that I genuinely looked up to.