Last Friday, Feb. 21, the Weekly reported that Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller had changed transportation staff recommendations on transportation projects to include paving of Oasis Road in her own neighborhood—and that one of her closest political allies and other campaign contributors lived along Oasis Road as well.

Miller did not return a phone call from the Weekly to answer questions about her transportation priorities before our stories ran, but she and her defenders later complained that the stories were inaccurate because a portion of Oasis Road in front of the contributors' homes were not paved.

Sherese Steffens, for example, argued on this blog that Pima County’s road repair “was conveniently stopped just before the driveway to Steffens and Jimenez's house. So maybe you should get your facts straight before you print a hit piece. And in case you also didn't check out the facts, we pay pima county property taxes and a lot of them. Was stopping the paving before our houses political retribution for our support of Ally? Looks that way doesn't it.”

The big problem with Steffens’ argument: That section Oasis Road that remained unpaved actually belongs to the town of Marana, which annexed roughly 37 acres in the area last October.

Marana Planning Director Ryan Mahoney confirmed today that Pima County paved the road up to the Marana town limits and that a stretch of approximately 1/8 of a mile inside of Marana remained unpaved.

Above: A Quartet for the End of Time as performed by a different set of musicians.

The past few weeks, UA Presents at the University of Arizona has presented a "Classical Music Night" at the Crowder Hall at the School of Music on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

This week is no different. This week will feature 'A Quartet for the End of Time." The backstory of how this musical program was composed is made for the movies.

written while the composer was imprisoned in an internment camp. Premiered with the camp’s German officers seated in the first row, the quartet’s unusual instrumentation resulted from the available musicians among Messiaen’s fellow prisoners.

Rarely heard in live performance, this stunning work will be performed by some of chamber music’s most respected artists.

Tickets are available for purchase online or at the box office.

Yes, public records requests can be a pain for public entities and their employees, but Weekly World Central isn't so sure a bill proposed by Republic Rep. David Stevens of Sierra Vista is such a good idea either. HB 2419 would allow places like the Tucson Police Department, the Pima County Sheriff's Department, different departments within City of Tucson and Pima County charge anyone who comes in with a public records request $20 an hour for the time it takes to retrieve the records for those requests that take more then 8 hours to fulfill.

What's ironic, troubling and any other way you want to cast this yet-another-flawed law is how Stevens is getting the word out about the bill. A media advisory went out yesterday—barely 24-hours notice—for a public records reimbursement stakeholder meeting. Now that's really helpful.

The meeting today is at 2 p.m. in the Majority Leader's conference room 205 at the House of Representatives, 1700 W. Washington St., in ... Phoenix.

Well, if you happen to be in Phoenix today or want to let Stevens and other lawmakers in on what really needs to happen with public records, here are a few things to remember (besides planning and sending out alerts on stakeholder meetings just a wee bit earlier, especially if you want to be perceived as being, you know, transparent):

Public records belong to the public. It's the responsibility of public offices to make sure records are easily and readily available. Stevens' bill makes it seem as if Joe Public and Joe Media make requests and public offices seamlessly make those requests happen under harsh and horrible conditions—those records must be kept in dusty dark basements where files are heaped, taking that public employee hours to find under harrowing circumstances.

Reality, many public offices drag requests out and sometimes they don't want to handover requests even when legally required to do so. If the media outlet or citizen has the funding a lawsuit is often the only way to get the public office to do what's right.

• Courtesy of G3 Tucson.

Tucson's monthly gay happy hour group G3 Tucson is hosting a fundraiser to combat SB 1062 tonight from 5 to 10 p.m. at The JunXion Bar, 63 East Congress Street. 100% of the bar sales will go to printing and promotional expenses to fight the anti-gay legislation.

Individual liberty, justice and equality for all Arizona citizens is threatened by SB1062 which would allow and protect discriminatory acts by individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations under the guise of "Religious Principles." It is primarily aimed at LGBTI people but is a threat to all.

Click here for more information.

No word on what's taking her so long (she's scheduled to meet with "key players" tomorrow) or why we're letting Al Melvin talk to people, but NBC News is tweeting (what a world!) that Brewer's made up her mind to veto SB 1062:

Ariz. Gov Brewer likely to veto controversial SB 1062, sources say #NBCpolitics
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 25, 2014

More: Brewer "doesn't want to take any actions that could jeopardize the economic momentum" in Arizona, source says
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 25, 2014

Fox News has generally made a big stink about the sort of "religious freedom" issues that SB 1062 was created to keep from happening, but in a weird change of direction, this morning's edition of America's Newsroom hosted contributor Juan Williams and co-host of The Five, Andrea Tantaros, to bash the bill for six minutes.

Nothing makes sense anymore.

Arizona lawmakers are coming out of the woodwork to voice their opposition on SB 1062. Who can blame them after Al Melvin's deplorable performance on Anderson Cooper's talk show on Monday night. Arizona Representatives Ann Kirkpatrick, Ron Barber and Raul Grijalva spoke out against the anti-gay legislation and urged Governor Jan Brewer to veto the bill.

From HuffPo:

"The far right of the conservative movement has been using our state as a petri dish for their anti-immigrant, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-women, anti-education, anti-gun safety agenda for years now, and it needs to stop," Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) told The Huffington Post. "Arizonans did not ask for this bill or any other form of state-sanctioned discrimination."

"The Legislature ought to be creating jobs, not driving them away," Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.) told the Daily Sun. "This bill will hurt Arizonans, and I hope the governor will veto it."

Rep. Ron Barber (D-Ariz.) called SB 1062 "a deeply offensive piece of legislation that would give legal protection to business owners who discriminate against certain groups of individuals" in a statement.

Governor Brewer is flying to Phoenix today after attending National Governors Association meetings. The deadline for Brewer to sign or veto this law is Saturday. Close friends and people "familiar with her thinking" told MSN that she's leaning towards vetoing the bill.

It's a good week to be a professional poker player with connections to Tucson.

Two of the region's most successful players, both of whom have moved on to greener (get it?) pastures, are making headlines for their feats in parts abroad.

Late Sunday night saw the biggest online poker tournament of the weekend go to Sean Getzwiller, who topped a field of more than 7,700 people in Poker Stars' Sunday Million event. The victory earned Getzwiller, who spends part of the year outside of the country (thus being able to play online poker under the moniker "wormnorton"), earned $232,000 for his troubles.

The haul actually isn't even close to the biggest win for Getzwiller, 36, who in 2011 bested a field of nearly 4,200 players to win a $1,000 buy-in World Series of Poker event for $611,000.

• ESPN
• Sean Getzwiller

While Getzwiller is taking it down at the tables, another player with local ties is trying to win big in a completely different arena: the reality television world.

Garrett Adelstein, a Mountain View High School graduate who splits his time between Scottsdale and Los Angeles cash games, is one of 18 contestants on the 28th (!!!) edition of Survivor. Set in Cagayan, Phillipines, the 27-year-old will attempt to overcome a field that includes lots of muscly and buxom competitors — as well as former NBA player Cliff Robinson — for whatever prize the show gives out. I don't know, if it's not King of the Nerds it's not something I pay attention to.

• Adelstein's Facebook page
• Garrett Adelstein

Adelstein hasn't made any big splashes in the poker world, but he's had some close calls. The most notable was in 2010 when he was among the chip leaders late in the WSOP Main Event, only to see him overplay some hands and finish 222nd to win about $48,000.

If it weren't bad enough that Arizona is now associated with SB 1062 and the Center for Arizona Policy's attempt to legalize religious-based discrimination, we also get the worst of our politicians showing up on news programs trying to justify their terrible decision-making. Tonight it was Cap'n Al Melvin, the man who seemingly can't find a law he actually understands, wildly outmatched intellectually on Anderson Cooper. You might want to pour yourself a drink before pressing play. Consider yourself warned.

Part two of the unedited trainwreck of an interview:

If you consider yourself a sports fan then surely you've seen the story from the NFL Scouting Combine that is all over ESPN, Twitter and Facebook that has scouts chirping, fans in shock and NFL owners trying to trade up for high draft picks.

So far the highlight of the 2014 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis has been former South Carolina defensive end, Jadeveon Clowney's official 4.53 second 40-yard dash.

Clowney could potentially be the No. 1 overall pick of the Texans in the 2014 NFL Draft. As a 6'5" 266 pound defensive end running a 4.5 second 40, why wouldn't he be?

His unofficial times were 4.47 and 4.48 seconds. "Clowney's unofficial 4.47 40 would've finished sixth among this year's running backs," according to sbnation.com.

Former Arizona 5'9", 207-pound running back, Ka'Deem Carey, who led the Pac-12 with total rushing yards and touchdowns in 2013, ran a 4.7 second 40-yard dash.