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FOUR EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC BANDS performed at the Flycatcher on Monday, Sept. 27. Tucson has a prevelant experimental music scene, and the Flycatcher offers a venue for these musicians to showcase their music.
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The Tucson City Council approved a project on Sept. 20 that will allow people to donate to Tucson’s homeless via repurposed parking meters. John Jacobs, the founder of Tucson Change Movement, put forth the proposal. “Tucson Change Movement is a merchant-driven initiative to end homelessness in Tucson,” Jacobs said. The meters will be painted a bright color, according to Jacobs, so people don’t get them confused with regular parking meters. He said people won’t actually be paying for parking on these stand-alone meters because they will be installed away from the actual street in high-traffic and high-visibility areas, including outside UA’s Main Gate Square. “What we’re attempting to do is, instead of giving money to panhandlers where you don’t know where the money’s going to go … we’re removing the friction of that transaction ... so that patrons know that when they put money into the Tucson Change Movement meters it goes directly to homeless programs,” Jacobs said. Ninety-seven cents of every dollar will go directly toward homeless programs and the only charges for donating are from credit card processing, according to Jacobs. Jacobs said the goal of this program is to deliver funds in a “transparent and efficient manner.” As far as who will oversee the program, Jacobs said the amount of money actually going toward homeless programs will remain significantly higher if bureaucracy is eliminated within the program. “There’s a way that we can do this with far less overhead, with volunteer committees and by using infrastructure that’s already there,” Jacobs said. “We want
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