The Sheriff's Department is here at the Pima County Republican Party to show support for Mark Napier, candidate for Pima County Sheriff. Napier is running against the current sheriff, Chris Nanos. Napier has been endorsed by both the Pima County Deputy Sheriff's Association and the Tucson Police Officers Association.

According to Curt Greenman, a member of the PCDSA, thinks the Sheriff's Department is broken, and it needs someone who can restore order to the department. "He's gonna bring changes to the department." he said. "Too much bad stuff on the inside of the department. Napier is going to bring in some fresh ideas, and clean house. Morale is really low right now."

Napier was a police officer for 28 years. He was also a commander and a captain with the Tucson Police Department.

Welcome to Election Night 2016, where the races are close and the stress is running high.


8:25 p.m. update, with 11.64 percent of precincts reporting:

• Martha McSally has the edge on challenger Matt Heinz, having pulled in 51.75 percent of reported votes in the congressional race
  
• Democratic Sen. Andrea Dalessandro is currently ahead of Republican challenger Shelley Kais with 58 percent of votes
  
• John McCain is likely the winner in his race, over challenger Ann Kirkpatrick with more than a 10 percent lead
  

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Pima County and Arizona just released the first round of results and this is where we stand as of 8:15 p.m, with just 3 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Secretary of State's website:

• Prop 205 is currently not passing with 53.69 percent of votes counted having been cast agains the proposition.
  
• Prop 206 is currently passing with 59.81 percent of votes counted in favor of the proposition
  
• John McCain is leading Ann Kirkpatrick in the Senate race with 53.66 percent of reported votes
  
• Tom O'Halleren is currently leading for Kirkpatrick's District 1 seat with 52.45 percent of counted votes
  
• Meanwhile, Donald Trump is leading in the race for our electoral votes with 48.57 percent of the  reported votes
  

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It's still too early for Pima County numbers to start rolling in, but here at the Sheraton Hotel on Grant Road, the Republican Party fiesta is underway.

Pima County Republican Party Chair Bill Baird is presiding over the festivities and the room is starting to fill up and more expected as the evening moves along. Not far from this shindig is Republican Rep. Martha McSally holding her fiesta at the Viscount Suite.

This is the start to our coverage for the evening reporting from GOP central, as well as the Democratic Party spot at the Marriott near the UA. I'll be back with more tidbits, and look forward to the 8:15 p.m. magic hour when we have some solid numbers to report.

Polls have just closed. Go here to check in on those numbers at Pima County Elections folks start counting.

We are going to break the rules here today. Why? ’Cause it is somewhere between or beneath the 2016 election (the Presidential one), the classy one, where all the dirty tricks are pulled out for our displeasure and this year it would seem the usual suspects are popping out of voting booths everywhere. The FBI is a given but, man, Boris and his aging KGB clique may get their chance to shine. Not like afro-sheen but Charlie Sheen (living in Barrio Libre) rumor has it.

Stay with me, whatever nasty tricks have happened yet, we the people are at work, or at the park jogging the twins, or drunk, or flying a sign with some poly sci third-grade scrawling whose spelling alone probably brings this messy cat in 60 bucks before noon.

Now I introduce not one cabinet not even a flying cabinet to this World 's Fair 2016. It's held in Houston I hear at Six Flags Over Texas. Texas is a foreign country metaphysically speaking and I ain't got the strength to say no. Good riddance to the Texans.

Laura Nyro, bless her heart, was a young Jewish songwriter from the Bronx. She was one-half Brill Building, one fourth grand piano, and colored fingernails, Gypsy Rosalie, and one-hundred percent original American songstress who sold her first hit at 16 or 17 (her age depends on who you ask). The song was “And When I Die,” not “Pass the Dutchie,” or anything in the Jonas Brothers catalogue. She was the real deal. They (the record industry) came to her. Men who loved and understood her, like Clive Davis and David Geffen, got their hearts broken in two by Ms. Nyro ... 

I woke up and put on an old interview I have with Nyro and it's is full of mystic shit, jokes about Jersey, and her words can only be her own, she was one a kind.

OK, the polls are still open until 7 p.m. and results won’t be released until sometime in the 8 o’clock hour, but we’re gonna go ahead and call a few races.

On the Pima County Board of Supervisors, we’re declaring Democrat Ramon Valadez the winner in District 2; Republican Steve Christy the winner in District 4 (replacing Republican Ray Carroll, who did not seek re-election); and Democrat Richard Elias the winner in District 5.

We’re also declaring that Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall will win another term, as will Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez and Pima County Treasurer Beth Ford.

The GOP team of Sen. Steve Smith and Reps. Mark Finchem and Vince Leach will win re-election in Legislative District 11; the Democratic team of Sen. Olivia Cajero Bedford and Reps. Sally Ann Gonzales and Macario Saldate will win tonight in Legislative District 3.

Our projections also show Congressman Raul Grijalva has won reelection in Congressional District 3.

So that brings us to the 16 races worth watching tonight:

• Prop 205: Will voters support letting Arizona adults get high? Recreational weed has had a winning streak in states around the country lately, but most of those states did not have the heavy-duty opposition campaign Arizona prohibitionists have has run. Polls have shown a close race.

• Prop 206: Voters will decide whether to give low-wage workers a raise by mandating a $10 an hour minimum wage starting next year and climbing to $12 an hour by 2020. (Toss in some sick leave for workers, too.) Polls have shown Prop 206 winning big.

• U.S. Senator John McCain will likely win a sixth term, but Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick has given him the only real competition he’s faced in forever.

• Kirkpatrick’s decision to challenge McCain has left an open seat in Congressional District 1, the sprawling district that stretches along Arizona’s rural eastern side and includes Oro Valley, Marana Flagstaff and the northern Native American reservations. Democrat Tom O’Halleran, who served as a moderate Republican in the Arizona Legislature, is up against Republican Paul Babeu, the Pinal County sheriff with Tea Party beliefs and a sketchy past. O’Halleran is the favorite.

This is easily the worst of the Robert Langdon series, a series that was already pretty terrible in that both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons blew ass.

Ron Howard once again directs Tom Hanks as Langdon, and this series needed to be put down after the first installment.

When Langdon wakes up in a hospital room, with a bullet scratch on his head and loss of memory, Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) is there to help out. Then, somebody starts toward Langdon’s hospital room guns blazing, and the so-called adventure begins.

Langdon is having hallucinations about something akin to Dante’s “Inferno” while trying to work his way through amnesia. He’s in Italy, and he doesn’t know why, but Sienna, for reasons unknown, is going to stay by his side until he works things out. Langdon must race against time (and solve puzzles!) in order to save the world.

The main “puzzle” Langdon has to solve this time is where a doomsday bomb containing a virus that will wipe out the majority of the earth’s population has been planted. If he doesn’t find the Make Everybody Sick bomb, it will be an apocalypse like no other. Gee, I wonder if he’ll find it? I wonder if the whole world will die in a Ron Howard movie?

Talk about your total lack of suspense in a film.

Well, it's almost over! Many ballots have already been cast, and soon, we'll be free from heated radio and television campaign ads, the pollster calls and the serious influx of junk mail.

So, what are you doing election night? You can stay home, prepare a big American feast (apple pie and chicken fried steak encouraged) and hang out with us online, where we'll be posting results from the polls, interviews with politicians and other election night updates.

Or you can head out into the world and celebrate (fingers crossed!) with your fellow voters.

Your election night party options:

Hotel Congress
Polls close at 7 p.m., and that's when the party is getting started at Hotel Congress (311 E. Congress St.). Declaring itself the "Unofficial Democratic Headquarters of Tucson and Arizona," Congress is delivering an evening of live music, prizes and surprises. They're advertising drink specials from 9 p.m. to midnight ($4 Bulleit and Stoli, $6 Doubles, $4 Lagunitas), which might prove necessary depending on how the evening goes.

Rialto Theatre
Across the street, the Rialto Theatre (318 E. Congress St.) will be projecting election results as they roll in. Bring the kids, munch on some popcorn and try to handle your anxiety about the future of the world. The party starts at 7:30 p.m.

Public Brewhouse
Public Brewhouse (209 N. Hoff Ave.) is inviting you over to laugh and cry as this mess of an election cycle finally rolls to an end. Poppy the beer dog will be there to offer up some snuggle therapy and, of course, there will be lots of local beer. Cast your ballot and start the party early at Public, which is opening its doors at 4 p.m.

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It is 12:30 p.m. on a sweltering Saturday afternoon in Tucson, Arizona. The cobblestone paths in St. Phillips plaza are lined with decorated booths of artisans and exhibitors who have gathered to share their knowledge, message and mission with the Tucson community.

The temperature outside has reached a peak 96 degrees, an unusual temperature for an October day, but nevertheless the Arts in the Plaza Festival hosted by the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance trudges on.

The Arts in the Plaza Festival is a celebration of arts and culture in both Tucson and South Tucson. The festival was created to showcase the unique talent of the locals. Each year the SAACA scours the both communities to find artists and community leaders to participate in the celebration.

“To me it didn’t matter if I was hot, this festival means so much to people in Tucson and no matter what, the show must go on,” said Victoria Preciado, a festival attendee.

By wandering the pathways of the festival, it is easy to see that as the heat increases, moral declines. The elderly turquoise jewelry maker is significantly less chatty than two hours prior, the once lively group of locals who occupied the middle of the festival with their roaring laughter have dispersed. But, somehow in the mix of it all, one booth stands out among the rest.

From the opposite side of the plaza, a boisterous laugh is heard, among the dull roar of chatter between different booths, there is still one person that is unable to be missed.

“I heard Hawkeye from across the festival,” said Lyndsay Campbell, student and festival attendee. Hawkeye Richardson is the founder and owner of Tell Me A Good Story.

“I don’t know if it was the outrageous amount of beautifully worn antique books, or Hawkeye’s dedication to the cause that kept me there for so long, but I can definitely tell you that the hour I spent at the Tell Me A Good Story booth, now that’s one hour I don’t regret,” said Campbell.

Tell Me A Good Story on the surface could just seem like any collector and distributor of antique books, but take a closer look—the mission is so much greater.