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Fletcher J. McCusker, who in 1997 founded Providence Service Corporation and was its CEO until he stepped down last year, has set his sights on a new venture, a medical home health care business called Sinfonía Healthcare. He said the company will focus on the rapidly expanding home-health industry driven by changes as a result of the Affordable Health Care Act. Sinfonia Healthcare is designed to provide a full continuum of home health products including hospice, skilled nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, companion care, durable medical equipment and pharmacology. The company will use Tucson as it’s starting point and test market but plans to expand rapidly and is already investigating expansion into New Mexico, California and Florida. “We want to go national,” McCusker said. “We’ll focus on the Sun Belt where the growth demands are most compelling.” Part of those growth plans include acquiring numerous smaller home health care companies, four of which McCusker said he was already in talks with but couldn’t identify because of confidentiality agreements. McCusker said Sinfonia likely will move fast to acquire more small home health care providers because the impending changes and requirements of the Affordable Care Act will make it difficult for them to compete in the market. As an example, McCusker said, “Smaller companies are going to struggle under the requirements to have electronic medical records.” The new company has received funding agreements of more than $20 million from Alliance Bank of Arizona and Petra Capital, Nashville, Tenn., which will be used to fund acquisitions. As for the name, McCusker said it means symphony in Spanish and Italian and was indicative of what the company represents. “In health care now, everyone is playing from their own sheet music, it’s not coordinated and integrated,” he said. Sinfonia intends to integrate all of the various components of home health care into one coordinated approach. In keeping with his boosterism of downtown Tucson, the new firm will be headquartered in an old warehouse at 1 E. Toole Ave. McCusker is also chairman of board of the Rio Nuevo Multipurpose Facilities District, which is using tax increment financing for downtown improvements. Joining McCusker in Sinfonia are two former colleagues from Providence Service, Michael Deitch, former chief financial officer, and Jeff Pochily, former director of IT network operations.

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Tucson’s Paragon Space Development at center of proposed 2018 trip to Mars By Pete Spotts The Christian Science Monitor In 1961, President John F. Kennedy charged NASA with putting humans on the moon within the decade. Now, the world’s first space tourist, multimillionaire Dennis Tito, has plans to send two humans to Mars and back on a nonstop, 501-day mission, with the launch envisioned for January 2018. The audacious project, which Tito is bankrolling out-of-pocket for the first two years, is driven by a mixture of motives: part America first, part research, and an enormous dash of what he and his partners hope will be inspiration to a nation whose government space program is caught between tight budgets and an unclear direction for its human spaceflight effort. NASA’s current plans don’t call for a human mission to Mars for more than a decade. The Mars flyby mission comes on the heels of a U.S. House Subcommittee on Space hearing Feb. 27 on the Space Leadership Preservation Act, a bill that would CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

The Inspiration Mars spacecraft.

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The flight trajectory for the planned 501-day missing.

The closest the spacecraft would get to Mars would be about 62 miles (100 kilometers) and the crew would only spend 10 hours within that distance on the nightside of the planet. This is similar to the first human mission to the Moon.

Husband and wife Taber MacCallum and Jane Poynter, both part of the Biosphere 2 experiment living in isolation from 1991 to 1993, were two of the founders of Paragon Space Development Corp., which was started in Tucson at the conclusion of the Biosphere 2 experiement. MacCallum is CEO of Paragon, and currently involved in the design of life support and thermal control systems for commercial manned suborbital spacecraft, as well as hazardous environment life support technology development for U.S. Navy divers. He is a master diver himself and the program’s test diver. He was principal investigator on four biological experiments on Shuttle, Mir and the International Space Station. Poynter is the president of the company and holds a patent for the Autonomous Biological System, a payload life support technology that was used to support the life of aquatic animals in experiments that resulted in the first animals to complete multiple generations in space. She has also logged more than three years of experiment time in space on the Shuttle, Mir and International Space Station, where she spent 18 months. Others from Paragon Space Development involved in the planned Mars mission are Grant Anderson, senior vice president of operations, chief engineer and also a company co-founder; Barry W. Finger, director of Advanced Concepts and Business Developments; and Gary A. Lantz, senior aerospace engineering in the advanced concepts and integration department.

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Raytheon gets contracts despite sequestration Sequestration or not, the Pentagon on Tuesday (March 5) added $62.3 million to a missile engineering support contract with Raytheon Missile Systems that brings the total contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency to $656.7 million. The contract covers in-service engineering support for Standard Missile-3 Block IB. SM-3IB is an updated version of Raytheon’s Standard surface-to-air missile with enhanced, two-color infrared target seeking, and the use of short bursts of precision propulsion to steer the missile toward incoming targets. The SM-3IB is scheduled to begin deployment in 2015. This contract runs through Sept. 30, 2015. On Monday, Raytheon Missile Systems was awarded a smaller contract for $12.1 million, for a contract modification in which the company is to design what are called digital signatures for critical information exchanges for the Air Force. That contract is to be completed by Feb. 28, 2015. In spite of the sequestion cuts, the Pentagon awarded a total of 42 separate contracts to various suppliers on Monday and Tuesday this week. The total value of all of the contracts was more than $4 billion.

Justice asks for more info on airline merger US Airways said Tuesday it will comply with a request from the U.S. Department of Justice for an extended antitrust review of its proposed merger with American Airlines. The request for additional information was anticipated as the Justice Department seeks more time to review the potential impact the combination would have on competition among airlines. The airlines say they still anticipate they will get regulatory approval in time for the merger to be completed in the third quarter of this year. Among the matters to be reviewed will be whether the combined airline will gain too much control of flights at certain airports, especially Reagan Washington National Airport where the combination would control almost 40 percent of flights. If anything, the Justice Department may require the airline to give up some of its landing slots at the airport.

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NEWS The Air Force has decided it will not ground high-tech security blimps along the U.S.-Mexico border despite its earlier announced plans to do so under the sequester budget cuts. The blimp program, part of which is based at Fort Huachuca near Sierra Vista, will remain operational until September when it will be transferred to the Department of Homeland Security. U.S. Reps. Ron Barber, D-Ariz., and Trent Franks, R-Ariz., were among the members of Congress in border states who lobbied Air Force officials not to ground the blimps. “These systems help to secure our border by detecting ultralights and other low-flying aircraft illegally entering our country carrying drugs,” Barber said in a statement.

Ryan Airfield tower set to close April 7 The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed Tuesday (March 5) that the control tower at Ryan Airfield is scheduled to be closed as of April 7. It is one of 173 towers across the U.S. to be closed due to the automatic federal spending cuts under sequestration. As part of the timeline for closures, the FAA is accepting comments on the closures until Wednesday (March 13). Katy Smith, public information and community relations manager for the Tucson Airport Authority which runs Ryan Airfield, said it is preparing an argument to contest the closure. Members of the public who wish to submit comments may send them by email to closurecomments@faa.gov or fax to FAA Air Traffic Organization at (202) 493-4565. The FAA says it will issue a final list of tower closures March 18. The tower at Ryan Airfield, 9698 W. Ajo Way, was selected for closure because the airport has fewer than 150,000 operations (take-offs and landings) per year. The tower is currently run by a private contractor paid by the FAA. It operates from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. It is heavily used for pilot training. Dick Gruentzel, vice president of administration and finance for the airport authority, said that even if the tower is closed Ryan Airfield would remain open to pilots and operate in the same fashion as other general aviation airports in the Tucson region. Outside of Tucson International Airport and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ryan Airfield is the only other airport in the region that has an air traffic controller-staffed tower.

S. Ariz.-based technologies see market in border security By Patrick McNamara Inside Tucson Business As issues of security along the U.S.Mexico border continue to play a big role in regional and national discussions, the University of Arizona and a collection of private companies see an opportunity to be part of a solution. “We have an emerging cluster in the border security and border technology arenas,” said Bruce Wright, associate vice president for the Office of University Research Parks at the University of Arizona. Wright was speaking to a group of industry representatives and public sector officials gathered at the UA Tech Park, 9070 S. Rita Road, for the first annual Border Technology Showcase on March 1. Wright said at least 57 companies in Southern Arizona work in the border technology and security sectors. Across the U.S., he said about 1,000 companies operate in the same filed, which accounts for a nearly $20 billion chunk of the national economy. “That’s a pretty significant concentration of companies in that filed,” Wright said. He said the region’s proximity to the border, major military installations and the intellectual resources of the UA make the region primed to become an even larger player in the arena. One major player recently moved into space at the Tech Park in an effort to further develop and test its product line with the goal of scoring a U.S. Customs and Border Protection contact. DRS Technologies, based in Arlington, Va., now has offices at the Tech Park where it field tests its border-security technologies as it prepares for consideration by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for its Integrated Fixed Towers program. “It’s a natural fit for us,” said James A. Hynes, executive director of Homeland Security and Force Protection Programs for DRS Technologies. “We get a representative environment.” Hynes, and colleague Richard S. Danforth, president of Integrated Defense Systems and Services for DRS Technologies,

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Nancy Smith looks at the display monitor of DRS Technologies’ mobile surveillance system.

said the company already operates similar security and surveillance systems in parts of the Middle East, including Jordan and Egypt. It also has made systems for the U.S. military. As part of its proving ground, DRS Technologies has built an 80-foot tower in the open desert south of its Tech Park offices. Equipped with radar, infrared and highresolution cameras, the solar-powered surveillance tower can monitor activity in a seven-mile radius. From a command center offsite, operators can watch as people and vehicles move through the desert. In a real-world situation, operators in the command center would notify agents in the field of the activities the tower system had located, perhaps drug or human trafficking, and apprise them of the location of the suspect activity. “Border security is trying to identify the bad guys in a group that mostly represents good guys,” Danforth told the invited group. In addition to DRS Technologies, several other vendors were invited to display

their products. Some have already received considerable attention, such as the Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in RealTime (AVATAR) kiosk. The system has a series of small cameras and sensors and a monitor displaying a human avatar on a screen who poses questions to users. The system, developed by UA researchers at the national Center for Border Security and Immigration, was designed to aid in screening people crossing the border into the United States. Last year, the kiosk was field-tested at the DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales. Justin Giboney, a UA doctoral student and research assistant on the project, said the system likely is several years from a commercial rollout. When it is ready, however, he envisions it would be useful not only in border activities, but in screening of prospective employees in private sector companies.

Contact reporter Patrick McNamara at pmcnamara@azbiz.com or (520) 2954259.

Correction There were several errors in a proﬁle of 650 Studio that appeared in the March 1 issue. The last name of Martha Lochert, of Martha Lochert Photograpy, was misspelled. The phone number for Chris Mooney Photography should have been (520) 906-9922; the area code was wrong. And two photography companies were left off the “Biz Facts” for more information: • Britta Van Vranken Photography (520) 907-6076 • Martha Lochert Photography www.marthalochertphotography.com (520) 290-6322

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RTA projects dig up construction and competitive challenges City handles RTA relocations By Roger Yohem Inside Tucson Business

Britton Dornquast, Manager MainStreet.

By Roger Yohem Inside Tucson Business Conclusion of two parts. For the next 13 years, Grant Road will be Ground Zero. Broken curbs, potholes, intersection congestion and outdated traffic controls along the crowded east-west corridor will give way to five miles of new pavement, infrastructure and modern technology. The construction chaos has shifted the workload into overdrive for the MainStreet Business Assistance program. Under the 20-year Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) program, MainStreet is tasked with helping businesses survive “the zone.” “We’ve been out on Grant Road almost five years, telling businesses this project is coming. Get ready for construction,” said Britton Dornquast, program manager for MainStreet. “Now is the time to take advantage of our program, before the dirt is flying. We try to get them to install a plan, to minimize the financial impacts. Here are some options to get out in front of the issues. Coming out of the recession, businesses are lean and mean. They are stressed because of the economy, let alone the construction. To survive this project, there is no room for mistakes.” The $2.1 billion RTA program included establishing and funding MainStreet. Within a quarter-mile of any project, free services are available to any company during construction. MainStreet employs 10 private-sector consultants with deep business ownership and management expertise. The collaboration begins with a two-hour assessment with affected business owners. Core areas such as strategic planning, finances, customer service, sales and marketing are evaluated. The budget is $116 million through 2026 to widen and upgrade Grant Road bewtween Oracle and Swan roads. An es-

timated 400 residential and commercial properties along the five-mile corridor will be demolished. “Hundreds of businesses will be touched by this, losing chunks of their parking, access and customers,” Dornquast said. “Overall, I’d say less than 50 businesses will be relocated and at least that many homes.” Ground Zero for the first phase is the Grant-and-Oracle intersection. Four businesses there were relocated: a retailer, service company, an accountant and a dentist. All relocations are handled by the City of Tucson real estate program (see separate story). Some owners just want out. Those tend to be businesses that have been in the same location for decades, own their building and are ready to retire. “They’re at the end of their careers, didn’t want to move or sell the business. So they took the money for their property. It’s their exit strategy,” Dornquast explained. About 20 percent of affected businesses on Grant Road are expected to pick this option. A few others likely will sell their companies and let the new owners work with the city to find a new site. They will “cash out the property and let somebody else continue the business and take advantage of their good name,” Dornquast said.

Downtown competition Downtown is another hot zone for MainStreet where Sun Link, the modern streetcar, is under construction. Funded partially by RTA, it includes relocating and upgrading underground utilities, installing concrete-embedded rail, overhead lines, and new pavement. Since March 2012, businesses have been disrupted. They’re tired of torn-up roads and detours, street and parking garage closures, construction fences that block access to their stores, the noise and those annoying traffic cones. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

When a business must relocate, the City of Tucson’s real estate department plans and handles the move. Depending on the situation, the department will execute a “full take” or a “partial take.” “Once qualified, the potential displacee is entitled to compensation for what we take. It’s an acquisition and relocation process and everyone is treated the same,” said Hector Martinez, director of the city’s real estate program. Whereas MainStreet assesses a company’s operations, the real estate department probes its physical space needs. Two different, independent firms participate in all appraisals. “Neither has a vested interest. Our basis is to make a just offer of appraised value,” Martinez said. “Overall, appraisals have been in line with what we thought.” Once an offer is accepted, certain relocation benefits kick in. Under the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), closing costs; packing and transport; utility and permit fees; new signage and other reasonable re-opening expenses are paid for. “In an established business, they want to stay within a reasonable radius of their influence,” Martinez said. During reconstruction of the Grant-andOracle roads intersection, the first phase of the five-mile Grant Road widening project, 27 parcels were impacted by construction. Four businesses were completely moved. The second phase of the Grant Road project, from Castro to Santa Rita avenues, will affect around 124 parcels. About 50 will end up as “full takes,” Martinez estimated. Within certain guidelines, “it’s up to them where they want to go.” At $10 million, MainStreet is the smallest piece of the $2.1 billion RTA plan, yet “one of the projects with the most traction. Our small business community really appreciates it,” said Jim DeGrood, RTA director of transportation services. For accountability, RTA conducts audits. Among clients, MainStreet has an outstanding 99.5 percent feedback satisfaction rating. “Overall, the results are better than expected. MainStreet is one of RTA’s greatest successes,” DeGrood said.

Contact reporter Roger Yohem at ryohem@azbiz.com or (520) 295-4254.

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Good News A new downtown hotel? It’s no 500-room convention hotel, but it looks as if there might be some concrete plans for new hotel rooms coming downtown. The board of the Rio Nuevo Mulitpurpose Facilities District is scheduled to discuss a plan at its March 18 meeting to partner with developer Scott Stiteler on a 130-room boutique hotel. Stiteler has plans to build the hotel at the corner of Fifth and Toole avenues. If the partnership comes to fruition, it would meet Rio Nuevo’s requirement to bring a hotel downtown to complement the Tucson Convention Center. Details of the agreement have not been hammered out and any agreement that requires spending more than $50,000 needs approval from the Tucson City Council but at long last tax dollars may go to something tangible, rather than legal fees.

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Foul balls OK, we in Tucson have given up on the March tradition of the nashing of teeth and wringing of hands that is Major League Baseball Spring Training. This year the lament is that the teams that play in the socalled West Valley — Glendale, Goodyear, Peoria, Surprise and west Phoenix — are drawing fewer fans than the teams playing in the East Valley — Mesa, Tempe and Scottsdale. That means; millions of dollars will need to be spent to up the ante. And guess what, the special tourism tax that created the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority, the agency that was instrumental in helping lure the Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox and Colorado Rockies away from Tucson, has run out of money and has left municipalities on the hook for ballpark improvements that were made. The benefit of 20/20 hindsight also provides a glimpse of what all the fuss was for. It wasn’t for a big attendance boost. Take the White Sox, the first team to bolt Tucson. The total attendance the last four years the White Sox played at what is now Kino Stadium was 349,210. In the four years, 20092012 since moving to Camelback Ranch, the White Sox attendance is up a total of just 4 percent to 363,363.

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NEWS PUBLIC NOTICES Selected public records of Southern Arizona bankruptcies and liens.

BANKRUPTCIES Chapter 11 Business reorganization Buena Vista Plumbing LLC, 918 S. Highway 92, Sierra Vista. Principal: Frank Garcia, member. Estimated assets: $50,000 or less. Estimated liabilities: More than $1 million to $10 million. Largest creditor(s): Internal Revenue Service, Philadelphia, $950,000.00. Case No. 4:13-bk02931 ﬁled March 4. Law ﬁrm: Albert H. Hartwell Jr.

FORECLOSURE NOTICES Koi Enterprises Inc. 715 E. Wetmore Road and 4402, 4404 and 4406 N. First Ave. 85719 Tax parcel: 108-19-019H Original Principal: $1,200,000.00 Beneficiary: Golden West Finiancial Group Limited Partnership, San Antonio, Texas Auction time and date: 10 a.m. May 2, 2013 Trustee: Fred Farsjo, Gabroy Rollman & Bossé, 3507 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 111 5151 N. Oracle LLC 5151 N. Oracle Road 85704 Tax parcel: 105-03-034F and 105-03-034G Original Principal: $1,200,000.00 Beneficiary: Assurity Life Insurance Company, Lincoln, Neb. Auction time and date: 10 a.m. May 22, 2013 Trustee: Michael P. Ripp, Ryley Carlock & Applewhite, 1 N. Central Ave., Suite 1200, Phoenix Sahuarita Ridge Apartments LLC 1091 W. Beta St., Sahuarita 85614 Tax parcel: 303-33-400D, 303-33-400E and 303-33-401D Original Principal: $2,120,000.00 Beneficiary: MuniMae TE Bond Subsidiary LLC, Baltimore, Md. Auction time and date: 1 p.m. May 20, 2013 Trustee: Nicole E. Perrault, Kutak Rock, 8601 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 200, Scottsdale

LIENS Federal tax liens Fairﬁeld Custom Woodwork Inc., 150 S. Camino Seco, Suite 109. Amount owed: $13,590.69. Truxx Manufacturing LLC and Greg Pilling, 810 E. 19th St. Amount owed: $14,556.24. Sonoran Builders Ltd., PO Box 26865, 85726. Amount owed: $4,392.74.

State liens (Liens of $1,000 or more ﬁled by the Arizona Department of Revenue or Arizona Department of Economic Security.) Sushi Ten, 2664 W. Calle Don Florencio. Amount owed: $19,733.52. Club Turbulence, 6608 S. Tucson Blvd. Amount owed: $22,516.82.

Mechanics liens (Security interest liens of $1,000 or more ﬁled by those who have supplied labor or materials for property improvements.)

Erickson Construction LLC, 250 N. Beck Ave., Chandler, against OT Builders LLC, 2940 N. Swan Road, Suite 212, and Fidelity National Title Agency Inc., As Trustee Under Trust 60403, 6245 E. Broadway, Suite 200. Property: 840 N. Rose Water Place. Amount owed: $21,805.00.

Release of federal liens Pizzeria LaFerlita Inc., 446 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 100 Deeohgee Inc., 9661 E. Stonehaven Way Dimension 3 18 Limited Liability Co. and Nancy C. Noland, 9281 N. Sea Otter Place Nanini Northwest LLC and Steven L. Nanini, 2120 W. Ina Road, Suite 200 Pro Plastering Inc., 3429 W. Los Reales Road Nanini Northwest LLC, 2120 W. Ina Road, Suite 200 Al-Munt Corp., 3720 W. Ina Road, Suite 134, Marana Bailey’s Fabric & Supplies Inc., PO Box 50107, 85703

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And this week, rail is being installed on Broadway between Church and Fifth avenues. “The bottom line is we don’t want to lose a business as a direct result of construction impacts,” said Dornquast. “We spoon-feed them info on the construction around them so they can focus on running their businesses. Then when there’s an issue, they’re not calling the mayor who calls transportation who calls the project manager who calls us. By then, we have it resolved.” In anticipation of a financial revival, the private sector has invested about $400 million in downtown. These visionary entrepreneurs are game-changers and pose a different type of threat. “There are over a dozen new restaurants and night clubs in the corridor. That increased competition will have more impact on businesses than the construction,” Dornquast said. “We tell owners when the streetcar is done, they may see double or triple the competition for their products and services.” Pizza is a prime example. For years, Enoteca, 58 W. Congress St., was alone in the zone. Then came Empire Pizza and Pub, 137 E. Congress St., “and they’re kickin’ butt, doing really well. And there’s Reilly’s (101 E. Pennington St.), an upscale place with a completely different vibe. There’s even pizza in the Presidio, all competing for discretionary income,” he said. Coffee houses also are under pressure. “God help them all, it’s just a matter of time before Starbucks is downtown,” said Dornquast.

overhaul the way NASA is funded and how its leadership is structured. During the hearing, U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, spoke of goals for NASA and said, “It will be disappointing to some of us if Google goes to Mars before the government.” In this case, however, it’s not Internet titan Google spearheading the mission, but the Inspiration Mars Foundation, a nonprofit group Tito and others established to execute the project. A team from the foundation presented the results of a mission-feasibility study this week at an Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEE) aerospace conference in Big Sky, Mont. “All of the work done to date show the mission is possible, just barely,” said Taber MacCallum, CEO and chief technology officer for Tucson-based Paragon Space Development Corporation and the Inspiration Mars Foundation’s chief technology officer. At the same time, however, the study also shows that it will take the Orion capsule and the space-launch system NASA is working on to pull off a mission to explore Mars with a crew of scientists, he said. The Inspiration Mars mission is an austere one whose schedule is dictated by a very favorable alignment between Earth and Mars in 2018. The alignment allows a simple round trip to take 501 days, and the alignment won’t appear again until 2031. The two-member crew, a man and a woman, would launch Jan. 5, 2018, take one swing around Mars, coming to within 100 miles of the surface on Aug. 21, then return to Earth in an approach and reentry no one has tried before, landing on May 21, 2019. A version of the feasibility study presented at the IEEE conference has Tito and colleagues from three aerospace companies, NASA’s Ames Research Center, and Baylor University’s Center for Space Medicine in Houston envision a Spartan craft where sponge baths replace showers and the crew will recycle water and oxygen with technologies similar to those used on the International Space Station. Simplicity is vital to keep the craft’s mass to levels a large rocket can readily loft from Earth, explained MacCallum, whose Paragon Space Development Corporation, 3481 E. Michigan St., specializes in environmental controls and life-support systems for spacecraft. The craft will have no propulsion system of its own but will rely on the push it gets from the final stage of its rocket and gravitational assists to get to Mars and back. Like a submarine, the craft is being designed so all systems can be serviced from inside, eliminating the need for systems to support spacewalks and bulky space suits. The mission envisions using a rocket with capabilities similar to those of the Falcon Heavy rocket, developed by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation.

Cut your losses The intense competition will push some existing ventures out. Although it’s an issue Dornquast has stayed neutral on, downtown-area developers and brokers say there will be failures. In some RTA zones, MainStreet found a few companies in deep trouble before construction started. Some were under-capitalized, or couldn’t pay their employees, taxes or rent. In those cases, the recommendation is “cut your losses. Most already knew, we just confirmed it,” he said. “It’s not our role to tell them to close.” To help businesses cope, MainStreet pushes the premise that positive results can result from this negative situation. There is potential to emerge from the construction chaos as a better, more profitable business. The only cost to owners is their time, energy and commitment. “If they embrace that, they can transform their company by working the plan,” said Dornquast. “We’ve had businesses do that regardless of the construction impacts, and come out stronger on the back end.”

Contact reporter Roger Yohem at ryohem@azbiz.com or (520) 295-4254.

Scheduled for its first demonstration flight later this year, the Falcon Heavy would be the most powerful rocket since NASA’s Saturn V, which launched astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program. Fully loaded, the Inspiration Mars capsule would tip the scales at about 10 tons, so it could be lofted by either the Delta IV or Atlas V, well-established workhorses for launching large satellites and robotic exploration missions. The capsule would host about 600 cubic feet of living space and 600 cubic feet of cargo space. The capsule could include an inflatable module to expand living space, foundation representatives said, although that would add complexity to the craft. “There really are multiple options for basically every function we need” to pull off the mission, said MacCallum. Already the foundation has signed a Space Act agreement with the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., to tap its expertise on heat shields and reentry approaches. Still, the challenges are enormous. The schedule is tight, and the funding after the first two years — the least-expensive years, Tito acknowledges — is uncertain. And the risk to the mission’s crew, likely a middleaged married couple, is considerable. From a physical standpoint, the biggest risk the crew is likely to face comes from the radiation hazards of interplanetary space – from galactic cosmic rays and from intense bursts of particles from the sun during powerful solar storms. The radiation exposure the crew would experience during the Mars mission exceeds the amount of exposure that NASA allows its astronauts to undergo, said Jonathan Clark, a former NASA flight surgeon and an associate professor at Baylor’s Center for Space Medicine. And while this mission’s radiation-hazard standard is not as stringent as NASA’s, Clark said, “don’t believe that we are looking at this lightly; this is a super concern.” Of particular concern are any acute effects from radiation that might impair a crew member during the mission. In addition, the team is focusing on ways to offset, through preflight training as well as in-flight activities, the effects of prolonged weightlessness and on the psychological effects of long periods spent in confined spaces. “The real issue here is understanding the risk in an informed capacity — the crew would understand that, the team supporting them would understand that,” Clark said. The mission won’t come cheap, although Tito said it’s too early to put an overall price tag to the project. His best guess would be less than what the US spends to send robotic missions to Mars. “This is really chump change compared to what we’ve heard before” on estimates for landing a crew on Mars, he said.

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Skip the rabbit hole â&#x20AC;&#x201D; boost the bottom line George Bernard Shaw told us once that, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.â&#x20AC;? I submit that the same is true for strategic planning. And, for better or not, that illusion often comes home to roost when PR and/or marketing departments and agencies are asked to submit plans for a product roll-out, a community relations campaign, a crisis management issue or any of the dozens of PR activities that usually begin with the phrase â&#x20AC;&#x153;we need to put out a press release!â&#x20AC;? No, you do not. What you need is to do is stop and think, and that, hopefully, will begin the planning process. But, like Aliceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s white rabbit, the rush to get somewhere can take communication down a rabbit hole into Wonderland. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great to be there, and for the moment it feels good, but if we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where â&#x20AC;&#x153;thereâ&#x20AC;? is we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect to reach the end of the rainbow (sorry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; different story) anytime soon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;? is too often a stand-alone communication goal. When I get â&#x20AC;&#x153;the phone callâ&#x20AC;? asking me to develop a PR or communication plan, my first request is to see a copy of the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business plan. That request is often followed by an awkward period of silence on the other end of the phone and thenâ&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have one.â&#x20AC;? OK. Now I know where to start. The truth is that the organization probably does â&#x20AC;&#x153;have one,â&#x20AC;? itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just not in the form of a formal written document. And, after some discussion, a little brainstorming, reality checks, and exploring expectations, aspirations, goals and even more reality checks we arrive at a road map that bypasses Wonderland and sets in place achievable objectives for both the business of the organization and the three-legged stool we call Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; advertising, public relations and sales.

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The map is the guide for the communication pathways that help the business plan succeed. But without the business plan first, the rest is busy work. As Thomas Edison said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being BOB BERRY busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.â&#x20AC;? And â&#x20AC;&#x153;doingâ&#x20AC;? without a clear understanding of how each leg of the stool achieves the goal set forth in the business plan is at best counter-productive and sometimes detrimental to the success of the business itself. While Shaw questioned the veracity of some communication, Woody Allen wondered â&#x20AC;&#x153;What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.â&#x20AC;? Avoid overpaying for your carpet and move the results of your communication programs from illusion to reality by connecting and coordinating PR, marketing, advertising, social media and sales support plans with your organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business plan to create an integrated happy ending.

Contact Bob Berry, APR, Fellow PRSA and a senior counselor with Kingdon-Nichols LLC, atbob@kingdon-nichols.com. Berry is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, Southern Arizona chapter, whose members write this monthly column.

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$9 minimum wage sounds good but it would be bad public policy Can your business afford a $9 minimum wage? President Obama believes it can. In his State of the Union address in January, the president said the proposal would benefit businesses by putting more money into the pockets of consumers. Further, he said he wants to tie the minimum wage to the cost of living so it would be something a person could live on. When he said it, half the members in Congress were seen giving applause on TV. Meanwhile, there had to be a collective dropping of jaws across the country from any small business owners that has had to make a payroll. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25 per hour. Arizona’s minimum wage is higher at $7.80 per hour as a result of the passage of Proposition 206 in 2006 when the economy was still going strong and there was a high demand for workers at all skill levels. The president’s proposal would raised the federal minimum wage by 24 percent. The increase would amount to a 15 percent hike from Arizona’s current minimum wage. Remember too, the minimum wage doesn’t include the increased payroll taxes employers also would have to pay. Such an increase to the minimum wage would produce unintended consequences. For instance, any increase in the mimimum wage hurts the least skilled and first-time employment seekers under the age of 19. Some of the people who are supposed to benefit the most from it. A recent study by the University of California Irvine demonstrates the tradeoff between an increase in minimum wage for the employed and higher rates of unemployment. Instead of paying higher wages, employers are forced to get by with fewer workers decreasing employment opportunities for young people. My first job paid me $3.25 an hour, the minimum wage in 1985. I washed dishes at Gus & Andy’s Steak House. It’s no longer in business but it was on what used to Miracle Mile, now called Oracle Road. That is where I experienced for the first time the financial rewards of hard work and was held accountable by someone other than my parents. Overall, it was a tremendous learning experience, and I earned enough to buy my first car. Even if your business pays more than

JERRY BUSTAMANTE

minimum wage, you have to ask yourself what an increase to $9 an hour would do to your business. I asked that question of a couple of members of the Arizona Small Business Associa-

tion (ASBA). Buddy Heilig, owner of Buddy Heilig & Sons Electrical Services, 3434 E. Kleindale Road, says he hires young people as apprentices and teaches them his trade. “I pay more than minimum wage, but an increase to $9 an hour would wipe out my slim profit margin,” Heilig told me. “It travels up the ladder too; guys making $12 an hour are going to expect a raise to continue to make so many dollars above minimum wage.” Julie Baxley, co-owner of Integrity Automotive, 4455 W. Ina Road, and Integrity Diesel, 6621 N. Thornydale Road, said, “Increasing the minimum wage creates a ripple effect, increasing costs that the consumer ultimately pays for. My vendors who deliver parts, uniforms, etc ... will pass on their increased costs to me, and I have no choice but to pass them on to my customers.” I agree with the president that no one working full-time should live in poverty. However, our elected leaders must understand that the best way to alleviate poverty for working Americans is to strengthen our economic base and support small businesses that are leading the charge in job creation. The U.S. free market system operates at its full potential when left alone, and it will determine what a fair minimum wage is when not influenced by policy. Such a drastic increase to the minimum wage may sound like a good idea, but the economic facts don’t support it and is bad public policy.

Your Safety Our Priority For your safety, it’s important that everyone in your household know how to recognize and respond to a natural gas pipeline leak.

Smell

If you smell an odor similar to rotten eggs. A leak may be present even if the odor is momentary or slight.

Hear

If you hear a hissing or roaring sound coming from the ground or above-ground pipeline.

See

If you see water or dirt blowing into the air, or discolored vegetation surrounding a pipeline.

Leave the vicinity immediately and don’t use an automated door. From a safe place, call Southwest Gas at 1-800-722-4277 and 911 immediately, day or night. Don’t turn off or on any electric switches, thermostats, or appliance controls, or start or stop an engine— or do anything that might cause a spark. Don’t light matches or lighters.

Jerry Bustamante is senior vice president of public policy and oversees the Southern Arizona office of the Arizona Small Business Association, 4811 E. Grant Road, Suite 262, in Crossroads Festival, (520) 327-0222.

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BRIEFS GET ON THE LIST

Next up: 501(c)3s, United Way allocations, Charitable trusts Research is underway gathering data for Inside Tucson Business’ 2014 Book of Lists. Upcoming lists are: • March 22: Investment capital and lending, Venture capitalists • March 29: 501(c)3 organizations, United Way allocations, Charitable trusts • April 5: Banks, Credit unions • April 12: Residential real estate firms, Real estate brokers, Appraisers If your business has been on a previous list in one of these categories, look for an email from Jeanne Bennett, List researcher for Inside Tucson Business, with details on how to update your profile. If you would like to add your business to one of these lists, go to www.InsideTucsonBusiness.com and click the Book of Lists tab at the top of the page to create a profile.

TECHNOLOGY

GM to hire 1,000 at new Chandler innovation center General Motors announced Wednesday (March 6) it has selected Chandler as the site of its fourth Information Technology Innovation Center, with plans to hire 1,000 high-wage employees and invest $21 million in the new facility, planned to open early next year. The centers enable Detroit-based GM to “in-source the company’s innovation, capabilities, strengthening its global competitiveness,” according to a statement. The future Chandler facility will be in addition to Innovation Centers in Warren, Mich.; Austin, Texas; and Roswell, Georgia. The Chandler center will be built near the interchange of the Loop 101 and 202 freeways. In its announcement, GM said the Innovation Centers are designed to “improve performance, reduce the cost of ongoing operations and increase its delivery of innovation.”

RETAIL

Two mall restaurants to close this month Tucson will have two fewer restaurants in malls in the next couple of weeks. Bamboo Club Asian Bistro, 5870 E. Broadway in Park Place Mall, will close after Sunday (March 10). The restaurant was ordered in a bankruptcy court proceeding on Monday (March 4) to vacate the space it had occupied in the mall for 10 years. According to court documents, parent company Rim Restaurants of Arizona had not paid its $16,541.35 monthly rent since a new lease agreement was reached May 9, 2012, and that it had given no indication to the mall of its intention to continue the lease within the 120-day period under bankruptcy law in which leases can be accepted or rejected.

The restaurant, which had been operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since Sept. 28, 2012, has until March 14 to vacate the premises. The restaurant was originally part of a Phoenix-based chain but now any existing restaurants are operated independently under a licencing agreement. Meanwhile, Brio Tuscan Grille, 150 W. Wetmore Road in Tucson Mall, will close after March 17. The restaurant, which opened in June 2011, never met sales expectations according to company officials of the Bravo Brio Restaurant Group, which is based in Columbus, Ohio.

LEGAL

Part of SB 1070 ruled unenforceable A section of Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law, SB 1070 passed in 2010, is unenforceable because it infringes on the freespeech rights of day laborers and their prospective employers, according to a federal appeals court ruling. The ruling Monday (March 4) by a threejudge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a district court decision blocking enforcement of the law that would have made it illegal to solicit workers from a car, or for a worker to accept such an offer, if it impedes traffic. The appeals court agreed the state has a valid interest in ensuring traffic safety. But it rejected the argument the day-laborer provision was strictly for traffic safety, pointing to wording in the introduction of SB 1070 saying it was meant to encourage self-deportation by stripping undocumented immigrants of their livelihood. “Laws that limit commercial speech must not be more extensive than necessary to serve a substantial government interest,” said the court, which found the Arizona law went too far. Gov. Jan Brewer’s office called the ruling a disappointment. A statement from her office said she would be consulting with the state’s lawyers about future steps.

POLITICS

Ex-Sen. Kyl joins law, lobbying firm

Retired U.S. Jon Kyl has joined the international law firm of Covington & Burling LLP as a senior advisor in the public policy and government affairs practice in its Washington, D.C., office. Kyl, 70, served a total of 26 years in Congress, eight years in the House of Representatives and 18 years in the Senate until he retired at the end of the last session. He did not seek re-election in 2012. Founded in 1919, Covington & Burling is considered a high-powered lobbying firm whose clients include National Football League, BP, Amazon.com, Qualcomm Inc., Caterpillar and several pharmaceutical companies, including Abbott Laboratories, Pfizer and Eli Lilly as well as the industry’s trade group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

Pac-12 coverage not always as wide as we’re being told By David Hatfield Inside Tucson Business For all the ballyhoo about the increased exposure to the Pac-12 and the growth of sports cable TV channels — including this week’s announcement that Fox is going to convert its Speed Network into Fox Sports 1 as direct competition to ESPN — there are still some major holes. Take the University of Arizona Wildcats’ last men’s basketball victory Feb. 23 beating Washington State 73-56. It was at McKale so that wasn’t an issue. But anywhere else in Arizona, the game was relegated to Fox Sports Plus, which doesn’t even show up on all cable guides though it is widely available across the state. Fans in the San Francisco Bay Area — which according to UA officials has the highest concentration of alumni outside Arizona — were left even more in the dark. There’s no Fox Sports Network there. Instead, the regional sports network is a Comcast-branded channel and doesn’t have Pac-12 games.

Kudos to Star The newspaper trade publication Editor & Publisher this week highlighted the Arizona Daily Star among “10 Newspapers That Do It Right 2013.” The article, written by Kristina Ackermann, cited “prime examples of how newspapers can flex their marketing muscle to take back their place in the community, produce the high-quality products that readers demand, and update their sales tactics to accommodate the needs of modern advertisers.” The Star’s accomplishment was an aggressive campaign spearheaded by Chase Rankin, vice president of advertising, sales and marketing, to reclaim weekly supermarket advertising inserts. All but Bashas’ had switched to direct mail as of Spring 2011. The article details how the Star won back the advertising for Fry’s Food Stores, Safeway and Sprouts and that the weekly Wednesday Buyer’s Edge was upgraded and delivered to 420,000 households in the market. Marketing Director Darrell Durham was quoted saying Buyer’s Edge now accounts for 13 percent of the newspaper’s annual revenue. Additionally, all subscription packages to the Star were changed to include the Wednesday newspaper, resulting in a 47 percent increase in home delivery of the paper that day.

Names in news Mike Rapp, former morning newscaster on KNST 790-AM and before that on KLPX 96.1-FM, is out as the morning news voice on KIIM 99.5-FM and K-Hit KHYT 107.5FM after the Cumulus Media radio stations signed an agreement with KVOA 4 that has the morning news breaks now done by TV news anchor John Overall on KIIM and Danielle Lerner on K-Hit. Rapp had been at KIIM since December 2010. KGUN 9’s newest news department hire is Simone Del Rosario, who will join the station Monday (March 11) as a video journalist. Although she just earned her master’s degree last year from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, she’s already got a pretty impressive résumé: two months as a social video reporter for the Washington Post and three months as a producer in the South Asia Bureau in New Delhi, India, for the global cable news channel Russia Today. She earned her bachelor’s degree from New Mexico State University. Let me take you back ... all the way back to the 1980s when Rich “Brother” Robbin came through Tucson as the lead man in an ownership group that was behind a pair of stations called “Power 1450” and K-Fox and before that was with the old KHYT when it was an AM station. Robbin’s career also included stops in Los Angeles, Nashville and Memphis, among others, but he really made a name for himself as a high-energy top 40 DJ voice back in the day in San Diego. The next time you’re in San Diego you can hear him again. A classic hits station that bills itself as The Walrus XHPRS 105.7-FM has Robbin on the air from 2-7 p.m. weekdays. And now that we’re in the wayback machine, anyone remember Jim Lemon, who worked as a reporter, anchor and executive producer at KGUN 9 for nearly a decade from 1986-1996? This week he was named news director at KEYT, the ABC affiliate in Santa Barbara, Calif. After leaving Tucson, UA grad Lemon got into management as a news director working at TV stations in Topeka, Kan.; Honolulu; Sacramento, Calif.; and Milwaukee, Wis. While he was in Tucson, Lemon competed with the company that now employs him. News-Press and Gazette, based in St. Joseph, Mo., owned KOLD 13 from 1989-1993. The company just bought KEYT in November and says it’s planning major upgrades to the station’s news product.

Contact David Hatfield at dhatfield@azbiz.com or (520) 295-4237. Inside Tucson Media appears weekly.

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Let’s give them something to talk about when they think Tucson A revival? In Tucson? Admittedly it’s an event that’s best associated with religion, but the revival I’m referring to is focused on tourism and strengthening its impact on our region’s economy. Whether it’s revitalizing downtown with the emergence of the modern streetcar, restoring the Mission at San Xavier del Bac – one of Tucson’s most culturally recognizable architectural landmarks – or creating momentum and product for Tucson to truly become the western hub for Major League Soccer spring training, the excitement for Tucson in Tucson is building. With the support of our board of directors, the Metropolitan Tucson Convention and Visitors Bureau (MTCVB) is spearheading a revivalist campaign centered on rebranding the destination through comprehensive, in-depth market research. We are working closely with MMGY Global, an agency nationally recognized as the tourism industry’s leading experts in destination branding and marketing. It was chosen by a selection committee, comprised of industry stakeholders and community leaders.

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The scope of the project is extensive. To date, the MMGY team has conducted site tours of the destination; interviewed several key stakeholders and led town hall forums where moderators probed participants to share insights on Tucson’s top attributes; provided a short, quantitative survey for the public to weigh in on what they, as residents, believe are our region’s most aspirational qualities. That survey is online at www.visitTucson.org/BrandSurvey. Additionally, MMGY is giving a number of research presentations to key stakeholders and tourism-related businesses on the findings of the data that has been collected. Last month in Chicago and Denver, MMGY conducted several focus groups comprised of residents in those areas — two primary, cold weather markets — with travelers who best match Tucson’s visitor demographic profile. Participants were asked about their perceptions of Tucson and other

cities where we compete for market share. Before the end of this month, MMGY will distribute a national online survey that targets consumers who ALLISON COOPER have an average annual household income of $100,000 and who have taken at least one overnight trip within the last year. The findings from these surveys and in-depth interviews will be incorporated into MMGY’s research and will be vital to shaping the strongest identity and creative elements for Tucson as a premier destination for leisure and business travel in the western U.S. This brand rollout, scheduled for mid-June is geared to not only an increase travelers from across the globe to visit Tucson and Southern Arizona, we want it to unleash a wave of enthusiasm among locals. Because of the level of community involvement, we anticipate it could revive a sense of pride across the region. The MTCVB is rallying the tourism ranks by bringing in one of the travel industry’s most highly respected and knowledgeable sources on the habits and preferences of American travelers. Peter Yesawich, who leads all of MMGY’s efforts in consumer insights, will unveil the brand anthem that shares exactly what messages and images we, as a destination, need to evoke in the hearts and minds of travelers. Complementing a strong brand that is fresh and relevant is executing strategic media and communications plans that deliver results. With a limited budget that is dwarfed by many other convention and visitors bureaus in our competitive set, the MTCVB has to spend these advertising dollars as effectively as possible to grow market share and increase tourism indicators — occupancy, rate, and RevPAR (a lodging industry metric, revenue per available room). Travel has become an arms race. Still, we believe that our $2.4 billion tourism industry in Pima County could be worth far more and it’s why our organization and board of directors have executed a plan to reignite this vital economic sector.

Contact Allison Cooper, vice president of marketing with the Metropolitan Tucson Convention and Visitors Bureau, at acooper@ visittucson.org. The MTCVB contributes this monthly column.

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N. Campbell Ave. in Campbell Village. In “Hamlet,” author William ShakePastiche, known for the “eclectic American speare adds intrigue to his famous plot by cuisine” it has been serving up for the past introducing a play-within-a-play, “The 15 years, has a 12-year history as a pop up. Mousetrap,” in which the Hamlet actors Every March 17, Connors closes perform the roles of other Pastiche and opens Paddy’s Irish characters in another play. Pub. That may be the inspiration Both sets of Connors’ behind the concept of a grandparents were originally restaurant within a restaurant from Ireland, and he has had the called a “pop up.” opportunity to visit the mother The most recent pop-up country himself several times. “I protagonist I’ve met in Tucson is grew up on Irish cuisine, and Redman Jarrell, chef at V always dreamed of ways to give Modern Thai, 9 E. Congress St. my friends a taste of Ireland Jarrell has been making a name beyond corned beef and for himself developing modern MATT RUSSELL cabbage,” he said. But rather twists on the culinary traditions than open an Irish restaurant, of Thailand, and his is a name Connors decided to transform Pastiche you’d most often associate with curries and into Paddy’s Irish Pub every St. Patrick’s khaos. But you won’t find either on V’s Day. The comprehensive menu features a lunch menu. That’s because something line-up of familiar and not-so-familiar completely different pops up at V during dishes, all inspired by his grandparents’ the day: Seattle-style barbeque. recipes. Patrons will certainly find the Jarrell was born and raised in Seattle, traditional corned beef, in addition to and says barbeque is what he missed most blood sausage, grilled lamb, fresh seafood about his home, explaining that this style of and a host of other Irish delicacies. barbecue is different from other regions as Paddy’s Irish Pub has been such a it uses coffee in everything from sauces to success that Connors is now hosting it rubs, and relies exclusively on apple wood twice a year, adding Sept. 17 to the from the Evergreen State for slow smoking. calendar. What’s the significance of that Jarrell decided late last year to introduce date? “It’s half-way to St. Patrick’s Day,” he Tucsonans to Seattle-style ‘cue, and since joked. he already had the restaurant facilities at V, he decided to do a pop-up right there. The pop-up barbeque at V Modern Thai Contact Matt Russell, whose day job is is available from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. CEO of Russell Public Communications, at Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The mrussell@russellpublic.com. Russell is also coffee-infused chicken, pulled pork and the host of “On the Menu Live” that airs 4-5 baby back ribs are all smoked in-house. p.m. Saturdays on KNST 790-AM and does The restaurant returns to Thai cuisine for the Weekend Watch segment of the “Buckdinner, with Jarrell once again completing master Show” from noon-1 p.m. Fridays on the cycle from pit master to chef. KVOI 1030-AM. Tucson’s pop-up pioneer may be Pat Connors of Pastiche Modern Eatery, 3025

children, seniors, military and UA faculty and The fifth annual Tucson Festival of staff. Buy them at www.uapresents.org. Books, the fourth largest book festival in the U.S., takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (March 8 and 9) on the Mall on the University Two more operas remain in of Arizona campus. If recent Arizona Opera’s 2012-2013 season. years is any indication, more “Il Trovatore” takes the stage at than 100,000 book lovers will 7:30 p.m. Saturday (March 9) and 2 show up to meet with legions of p.m. Sunday in the Music Hall of authors participating in the Tucson Convention Center, 260 workshops and panel discusS. Church Ave. The 1853 classic by sions, along with special Giuseppe Verdi hasn’t been childrens events and food performed in Arizona in two vendors. decades. Arizona Opera’s season Forewarning; due to the UA wraps up with Wolfgang Amadeus Wildcats-Arizona State basketHERB STRATFORD Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” ball game at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13 and 14. Tickets are priced the Cherry Avenue parking from $35 to $135, buy them online garage and the lots around McKale Center at http://azopera.org. will be reserved Saturday for the game. Otherwise, the UA’s other garages will be available for free parking on Saturday and that will include the Cherry Avenue garage The classic 1939 musical “The Wizard of and lots around McKale on Sunday. Oz,” either left you wanting more, or feeling If you’re in the UA neighborhood satisfied with what was on screen. Author tonight, an event that’s near and dear to my L. Frank Baum wrote other “OZ” stories of heart is the annual free outdoor movie at course, but none have made it to the big Main Gate Square with a literary connecscreen the way “OZ The Great and tion. This year it’s the classic baseball Powerful” does when it opens this scandal “Eight Men Out” about the 1919 weekend. The film has an all-star cast Chicago Black Sox and the World Series including James Franco and Michelle scandal. The free movie will be shown at Williams, and also a huge special effects dusk tonight (March 8) in the Geronimo budget to tell the story of the wizard and Plaza courtyard, 814 E. University Blvd. how he ended up in the fabled land of OZ. At the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway, a new documentary from master filmmaker Werner Herzog titled “Happy People: A Tucson jazz fans have had March 9 Year in the Taiga,” follows natives of circled on their calendars for months for Siberia and their lifestyle has remained the performance of Wynton Marsalis and largely unchanged over centuries. the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The show, at Centennial Hall, 1020 E. UniverContact Herb Stratford at herb@ sity Blvd. on the UA campus, is by UApreArtsandCultureGuy.com. Stratford teaches sents. Tickets for 8 p.m. are still available at Arts Management at the University of Arizona. His $45 to $85, with discounts for students, column appears weekly in Inside Tucson Business.

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The Writers Studio helps sutdents hone art of crafting words By Lisa K. Harris Inside Tucson Business

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The Writers Studio Tucson teaches students to develop their voice. “Whether writing for themselves or publication, our technique helps them write their best,” says director Eleanor Kedney. The Writers Studio Tucson is one of three branches of the New York City-based technical school founded by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Schultz. The 10-week sessions focus on the craft of writing. Class size is limited, with a maximum enrollment of 12 students, and taught in workshop format. Slackers need not enroll as everyone participates during the 2½-hour classes. With guidance and direction from Kedney and her teachers, students read, discuss and critique one another’s writing. The only grade is the self-satisfaction of writing well. “Artists need to practice,” Kedney said. “Painters practice, musicians practice, writers need to practice too.” And that’s what The Writers Studio focuses on, practicing the technique of successful Student Isaac Kirkman, left, with Eleanor Kedney, Tucson branch director of The Writers Studio, and Philip Schultz, right, founder and director of writers, such as Tony Hoagland, Jennifer The Writers Studio. Egan, Mathew Klamm and Lorrie More. “Each week, the students focus on an writing.” In addition to classes, the school Lela MacNeil, who works in marketing, is problems to solve and distracted me. assigned writer’s passage. On their own, prior a student in the school’s intermediate level. sponsors public readings, both of students Without the pressure, I got into a rhythm, to class, students analyze how the writer and teaching staff, as well as with Philip and then everything flowed from there.” “In the six months of studying their wrote what they did, and then students Schultz and other well known writers. Now, in the advanced level class, technique, my writing has improved mimic the technique by writing a page and a Kirkman found a community of friends at Kirkman has published four short stories dramatically,” she said. MacNeil earned a half based upon their own The Writers Studio Tucson as well working since joining the school, and has been bachelor’s of fine arts in b material,” Kedney said. In through his writer’s block. Sitting around a asked to write a fifth for an upcoming screenwriting from New s BIZ FACTS class, the group takes turns table and sharing work week after week, led magazine issue. York University. Y reading and critiquing each to fellowship outside the classroom. “The Kedney, a poet, began the school’s “I came into The Writers The Writers Studio others’ work. community of other writers is a crucial Studio feeling unconnected Tucson branch in 2005. It was The Writers S Tucson “Students learn positive element of my life, almost as important as Studio’s first venture outside of New York. aand dissatisfied with my www.writerstudio.com critique methods and the writing,” he said. work,” she said. The school’s “I had 10 students in one class,” she said. w (520) 743-8214 everyone understands how More Information: The next free Now, there are nearly 40 spread across fformat of focusing on craft they can improve their introductory class of The Writers Studio three levels, with three different teachers. honed her skills. “The h Classes meet at WellnessFirst!, work,” she said. Tucson is March 12th, and the next “Our technique works for poets, as well weekly exercises exposed w 3861 N. First Ave. The next free introductory class is next Jane Kattapong, a Workshop Level 10-week session begins as fiction and creative non-fiction writers,” me to writers that I would m Friday (March 15). The next neurologist, has been Thursday, March 28th. For more informashe said. “We have students who are never have read.” And, in n 10-week workshop level sesenrolled in the school for doctors, scientists, school teachers, lawyers, tion and to register contact Eleanor Kedney tthe process, MacNeil sion begins March 28. Cost is four years. “I’ve learned a developed her own voice or journalists, Realtors. Basically people from at (520) 743-8214 or eleanor@writerstudio. d $340. Register online. lot about myself as I’ve all walks of life who want to do their best com. www.writersstudio.com. sstyle of writing. “I now gone through the process,” ccarefully choose each word she said. so that it makes sense to the Kattapong continues to be engaged technique I’m using.” because “writing takes me out of my realm The Writers Studio Tucson offers three of day-to-day concerns and shows a part of levels of instruction on weekday nights. myself that isn’t visible.” She believes “craft- “Everyone who is new to our way of ing a piece of writing is unlike any other teaching starts in the workshop level activity. I’m creating a work of art, someregardless of publication record,” Kedney thing that is part of myself but presented in said. Once progress is made, students move a way that’s meaningful to others.” into the intermediate level, and then to the At the heart of The Writers Studio’s advanced level, where students work on teaching philosophy is the development of a their own pieces instead of on assignments. personal narrator. “Fiction doesn’t care about Two years ago, Isaac Kirkman sat in on a facts,” Kedney said. Developing the story’s free introductory class Kedney offered and personal narrator, or PN in The Writers was hooked. The school appealed to Studio lingo, “frees the writer of autobioKirkman because “it gave me techniques to graphical entanglements so that the author articulate my voice.” A life-long writer, can access their material.” The school teaches Kirkman suffered from writer’s block at the writers to plumb emotional depths and learn time. “I was writing about why I couldn’t how to create and sustain effective distance. write,” he said. “The assignments gave me

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SAHBA Spring Home and Patio Show Friday through Sunday (April 5-7) 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tucson Convention Center 260 S. Church Ave. Contact: Amy McReynolds amy@ sahba.org (520)795-3025 Cost: $8 www.sahbahomeshow.com

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Information: Gary Kling (520) 818-3278 Pima Rotary Club Weekly meeting Every Friday except the last Friday of the month 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Chad’s Steakhouse 3001 N. Swan Road Information: www.pimarotary.org Note: Bring your own lunch Pima Rotary Club Monthly membership mixer Last Friday 5 to 7 p.m. Location varies Information: pimarotaryclub@yahoo.com Project Management Institute (PMI) Tucson Chapter Second Tuesday of the month 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Hotel Arizona 181 W. Broadway Information: www.pmi-tucson.org or archboldk@consulting.ky Cost: $25 members, $30 nonmembers Rotary Club of Tucson Every Wednesday Noon Doubletree Reid Park Hotel 445 S. Alvernon RSVP: Mary Laughbaum (520) 623-2281 www.tucsonrotary.org Rotary Club of Tucson Sunrise Thursdays 7 to 8:10 a.m. Arizona Inn 2200 E. Elm Street Information: rsuskind@mac.com Rotary Club of Tucson Sunset Tuesdays 6 to 7:30 p.m. El Parador Restaurant 2744 E. Broadway Information: (520) 349-4701 SAAEMA Monthly Program Third Tuesday 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Viscount Suites Hotel 4855 E. Broadway Information: www.saaema.org RSVP: m.sage@wt-us.com Cost: $20 members, $30 nonmembers Saguaro Business Club Business leads meeting Every Thursday 7 to 8 a.m. Mimi’s Café 120 S. Wilmot Road RSVP: (520) 891-5430

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CALENDAR Saguaro Toastmasters Every Monday 6:30 p.m. Ward 6 ofﬁce 3202 E. First Street Info: Mark Salcido (520) 991-6127 or gerontologist@ hotmail.com http://saguaro.freetoasthost.com SCORE Southern Arizona free business counseling Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. SCORE Main Ofﬁce 330 N. Commerce Park Loop Info: (520) 670-5008 SCORE Southern Arizona free business counseling Every Wednesday 9 a.m. to noon Oro Valley Library 1305 W. Naranja Drive Call Oro Valley Library at (520) 229-5300 to schedule

Roadrunner Civitan Club of Civitan International SCORE Southern Arizona free business counseling Every Monday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nanini Branch Library 7300 N. Shannon Road Info: (520) 791-4626 SCORE Southern Arizona free business counseling First and third Tuesday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ASBA 4811 E. Grant Road, Suite 261 Call ASBA at (520) 3270222 to schedule SCORE Southern Arizona free business counseling Every Tuesday 9 a.m. to noon Marana Urgent Care Center (South Classroom) 8333 Silverbell Road Info: (520) 682-4314 SIDT Thursday Breakfasts Soroptimist International of Desert Tucson Every Thursday through Sept. 6

7:15 am The Good Egg 4775 E. Grant Road Contact: Carol Cloutier carolcloutier@cox.net (520) 882-4873 sideserttucson.com

DoubleTree, 445 S. Alvernon Way Membership:Garrett Kowalewski, (520) 647-9100 garrettk@staffmattersinc.com RSVP by Thursday prior to meeting: www.shrmgt.org

Small Business Commission Meeting Fourth Thursday 3 to 5 p.m. Mayor and Council chambers 255 W. Alameda First ﬂoor Info: Ellen Hitchings, (520) 791-4343 ext. 245 or small. business@tucsonaz.gov

Solutions Forum Fourth Monday Noon to 4 p.m. Clements Insurance 6245 E. Broadway, Suite 310 Information: 1-800-7169626 or (480) 200-5678 RSVP required Open only to business owners and divisional heads

The S.M.A.R.T. Group Every Friday 12 to 1:30 p.m. Nova Home Loans MultiMedia Conference Room 6245 E Broadway Blvd., 5th Floor $25 Members $45 nonmembers Contact: Dale Dillon Lips (520) 429-6000 or dillonadvisory@gmail.com Society for Human Resource Management Greater Tucson Chapter Second Tuesday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Southern Arizona Chapter of Enrolled Agents Third Tuesday 11:30 a.m. Knights of Columbus Hall 601 S. Tucson Boulevard Info: (520) 751-8986, www.aztaxpros.org/sacea Southern Arizona Architects & Engineers Marketing Association Third Tuesday 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sheraton Tucson 5151 E. Grant Road

RSVP: Dana Dietrich ddietrich@eectuc.com Cost: $25 members / $35 Nonmembers Southern Arizona Chapter of the Society for Design Administration Fourth Tuesday Noon to 1:30 p.m. Viscount Suites Hotel 4855 E. Broadway Information: www.sacsda. com or tamara.g@wt-us.com RSVP: mormsby@ hmwstructural.com Cost: $20 members, $25 nonmembers Southern Arizona Logistics Education Organization (SALEO) Third Wednesday Location and times vary Information: al@saleo, (520) 977-3626 or www.saleo.org Cost: $25 members and 1sttimers; $30 nonmembers

The Annuity Doctor — Curt Zacharias Every Tuesday 3:30 p.m. Bookmans 6230 E. Speedway, Community Room Information: Curt Zacharias (520) 990-0009 Cost: Free Tucson Association of Executives Every Wednesday 6:30 to 8 a.m. Tucson Country Club 2950 Camino Principal RSVP: (520) 321-0879, taeofﬁce@aol.com Tucson Christian Business Connections First and third Thursdays 7 a.m. 3516 E. Grant Road Information: Robert E. Hinske, (520) 795-7195 or (520) 990-5374

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PEOPLE IN ACTION AWARDS Intuit QuickBooks small business advisor Lucia Rodriguez was one of five nationally selected employees recognized by the Intuit Foundation for her submission for a “High Impact Grant” for Tucson’s El Rio Community Health Center. A $25,000 grant was awarded for El Rio’s nationally recognized diabetes program. The funds will provide medical care, glucose test strips and education to low-income patients with diabetes. Lea Marquez Peterson, CEO of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, was awarded the University of Arizona Alumni Association’s Distinguished Citizen Award for her work in the community. Fayez K. Ghishan, MD, UA Department of Pediatrics, director of the Steele Children’s Research Center and physician-in-chief for

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The University of Arizona Medical Center – Diamond Children’s, is the first pediatric gastroenterologist awarded the 2014 Horace W. Davenport Distinguished Lectureship. The award recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement in gastrointestinal and liver physiological research, including accomplishments in research, teaching, training and activities within APS. Ghishan is an internationally renowned researcher who has published more than 230 articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 55 book chapters. Two PCC student

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honor society advisors are among 25 community college instructors selected as Phi Theta Kappa 2013 Faculty Scholars. Rob Carey, a Science Laboratory supervisor, and Steve Uyeda, a biology faculty member, were selected from among nearly 3,000 chapter advisors through a rigorous application process. Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Miss., is the largest honor society in higher education with 1,285 chapters on college campuses in all 50 of the United States, plus Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, Peru, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States

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CREW 2012 “Memberto-Member Business Award.” Loretta Peto, of Peto & Company, CPA’s, has been awarded the Tucson CREW 2012 “President’s Award.” CREW Network is an industry business networking organization dedicated to supporting the achievements of women in commercial real estate.

NEW HIRES Tanya StogsdillLees has joined Busby Sanford Brady, CPAs, PLC., as a tax accountant. She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of California, Riverside. Stogsdill-Lees is licensed in Arizona and Oregon. Rosemont Copper has hired Humberto Stevens as director of public affairs. Stevens will be responsible for Rosemont’s interactions and participation with local community organizations and agencies and have a special focus on the region’s tribal communities

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and cultural preservation discussions. He will also be involved with the local chambers of commerce, relevant boards and local foundations. Before joining Rosemont Copper, Stevens was vice president of Commerce Bank of Arizona where he led business development efforts in Southern Arizona. Stevens has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona in Mexican American Studies/ Social Behavioral Sciences. APPOINTMENTS Barbi Reuter, of Picor Commercial Real Estate, has been appointed president of CREW Network. Marie

Laatsch, of AXIA Real Estate Appraisers; Beverly Weissenborn, of Burke Weissenborn LLC; Nannon Roosa, of the University of Arizona Eller School of Management; Chris Young, of the Kuhn Young Law Firm; Sandra Barton, of Alliance Bank of Arizona; and Vivian Boggie, of Title Security have been appointed Tucson Crew 2013 Board Members. CREW Network is an industry business networking organization dedicated to supporting the achievements of women in commercial real estate. ELECTIONS Jeannie Nguyen, of National Bank of Arizona, has been elected Tucson CREW 2013 president-elect. Cindy Dhuey, of The Temp Connection, has been elected Tucson CREW 2013 Secretary. CREW Network is an industry business networking organization dedicated to supporting the achievements of women in commercial real estate.

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FINANCE YOUR MONEY

Almost there: What to do when retirement is on your horizon When retirement is on your horizon, there are many financial issues to consider, such as when to retire, when to begin collecting Social Security and how to lower risk in your retirement portfolio. Whether you’re approaching a longanticipated retirement date or beginning to cut back your work hours, planning ahead for retirement is a wise move. Even if you’re on track to meet your retirement savings goals, there are other considerations you’ll want to address before taking the big step.

Timing is everything Planning is essential to achieve the retirement you envision. And the first thing you’ll want to decide is when you plan to retire. This is a big decision and should factor in lifestyle as well as financial considerations. Although age 65 is considered the “traditional” retirement age, in practice, it varies widely. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average American retires at age 62, well before they are eligible to receive workplace pension plan payments, Medicare coverage and full Social Security benefits. When deciding on when to retire, keep these factors in mind: • Retirement savings: A major factor determining when you can retire is your retirement nest egg. Will it be enough? The average life expectancy of a 65-year-old is 18.5 years, but many live well into their 90s, meaning your savings may need to last 30 years or longer. The good news is you still have time to make up any shortfall by maximizing your contributions to your IRA or retirement savings plan. In addition to regular contributions, the IRS allows you to make “catch up” contributions if you are 50 or older, permitting you to contribute up to a total of $23,000 to a 401(k) and $6,500 to an IRA in 2013. • Pension timing: If you qualify for a pension, either through your current or former employer, most plans will not pay full benefits unless you are age 65 or older. But many will pay a reduced amount depending upon your length of service and retirement age. Ask your plan administrator what payments you will qualify for at different ages. • Health care costs: Seniors age 65 and older have guaranteed access to health insurance through Medicare and, for lower income seniors, Medicaid. But if you plan to retire before then, you’ll need to provide for your own health insurance, which can

be a significant cost. Check to see if your employer offers a retiree health plan, if you qualify for it and how much it will cost. A provision of the Affordable Care Act is scheduled to take effect in 2014 W. DAVID FAY that may provide another option for securing health insurance if you retire before 65. Nearly everyone in the U.S. will be required to be covered by health insurance or pay a penalty for failing to do so. Each state will have a health beneift exchange where individuals can purchase health insurance if they don’t have employer-provided insurance. • Social Security: You can begin collecting Social Security as early as age 62. But if you choose to collect before your “normal” retirement age (65 to 67, depending on when you were born), you’ll face a reduction in monthly payments of as much as 30 percent. What’s more, if you opt for early collection and continue working, you’ll be subject to an annual earnings limit until you reach your full retirement age. If you exceed this limit — $15,120 in 2013 — you’ll pay a stiff penalty: for every dollar you earn over the amount, half of your Social Security benefit will be withheld.

Structuring your portfolio A critical step to take before retirement is to reduce risk in your retirement portfolio. Since you will soon have to depend on your portfolio for income, you’ll want to begin shifting a greater portion to bonds or other lower risk, income-producing investments. You’ll also want to review the specific holdings in your portfolio. Are there some higher-risk stocks you might replace with more stable holdings? Could you lower risk by shifting some of your lower-rated bond issues to U.S. Treasuries or municipal bonds? You might also consider dividend-paying stocks. These and other risk-reducing strategies can help to structure your portfolio for the day when you’ll need to draw on it for regular income.

Contact W. David Fay, a second vice president in wealth management and financial advisor with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, at http://fa.smithbarney.com/ thefaymillergroup or (502) 745-7069.

TUCSON STOCK EXCHANGE Stock market quotations of some publicly traded companies doing business in Southern Arizona

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Mar. 6

Feb. 27 Change

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Tucson companies Applied Energetics Inc CDEX Inc Providence Service Corp UniSource Energy Corp (Tucson Electric Power)

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0.02 0.01 9.56 35.20

0.10 0.51 19.67 48.01

8.57 2.92 2.62 11.92 62.02 9.66 103.24 18.75 60.00 4.06 24.48 44.58 40.84 41.98 49.35 16.71 102.56 35.60 52.22 15.67 80.30 73.28 23.71 32.84 30.80 70.48 71.27 208.38 34.81 67.99 5.75 50.03 34.99 19.55 46.27 29.36 1.21 41.25 38.83 43.12 61.86 41.08 39.38 43.16 54.05 64.96 14.43 20.08 55.36 57.70 23.94 48.29 46.28 14.85 12.05 46.68 41.42 66.12 19.58 35.14 55.46 29.30 138.96 16.61 14.57 33.74 73.38 39.96 36.06 13.80 25.09

8.54 2.57 2.62 11.30 62.30 9.76 101.21 16.60 58.82 4.11 23.89 42.16 40.15 41.71 48.18 16.64 100.73 34.51 51.16 14.27 79.01 73.62 22.65 32.27 35.17 68.06 70.35 202.33 34.98 63.76 5.50 49.28 35.19 19.00 46.61 29.10 1.18 38.94 37.71 43.06 60.31 40.58 39.30 41.18 53.29 65.97 21.16 19.30 55.06 57.13 23.77 46.94 4.47 13.92 11.82 44.97 40.97 63.12 18.69 34.29 53.31 26.96 136.71 17.12 13.41 34.03 71.66 41.17 35.13 13.34 24.11

0.03 0.35 0.00 0.62 -0.28 -0.10 2.03 2.15 1.18 -0.05 0.59 2.42 0.69 0.27 1.17 0.07 1.83 1.09 1.06 1.40 1.29 -0.34 1.06 0.57 -4.37 2.42 0.92 6.05 -0.17 4.23 0.25 0.75 -0.20 0.55 -0.34 0.26 0.03 2.31 1.12 0.06 1.55 0.50 0.08 1.98 0.76 -1.01 -6.73 0.78 0.30 0.57 0.17 1.35 41.81 0.93 0.23 1.71 0.45 3.00 0.89 0.85 2.15 2.34 2.25 -0.51 1.16 -0.29 1.72 -1.21 0.93 0.46 0.98

7.97 0.36 1.48 6.72 50.95 5.30 78.21 11.20 50.89 2.97 14.97 24.61 28.09 20.71 22.19 12.13 81.98 32.05 43.08 8.42 60.74 50.27 13.45 30.54 21.38 46.12 52.21 181.85 27.10 53.38 3.94 30.83 27.96 6.46 41.35 20.98 1.07 22.40 24.76 37.99 53.99 32.31 33.93 24.31 41.11 56.59 15.69 7.63 49.03 38.63 14.73 33.03 38.40 6.25 7.76 39.01 25.77 54.68 14.04 26.06 33.62 17.45 104.08 16.80 6.78 28.26 57.18 28.53 29.80 7.83 17.45

10.75 2.94 3.13 12.42 64.79 10.57 103.56 27.95 60.45 4.93 24.99 44.75 42.00 42.98 49.95 17.50 105.97 43.43 52.77 16.07 89.98 73.99 24.66 43.65 37.74 70.96 71.43 211.79 37.70 68.41 5.85 49.68 38.62 20.04 55.25 29.75 1.81 43.22 39.98 44.21 62.83 42.18 41.84 44.85 54.83 71.25 39.73 21.97 59.34 58.34 25.14 49.70 85.90 14.92 12.20 47.24 42.55 66.92 19.63 35.26 56.07 29.88 140.84 43.80 15.64 35.46 77.60 42.00 36.60 13.96 25.16

Southern Arizona presence Alcoa Inc (Huck Fasteners) AA AMR Corp (American Airlines) AAMRQ Augusta Resource Corp (Rosemont Mine) AZC Bank Of America Corp BAC Bank of Montreal (M&I Bank) BMO BBVA Compass BBVA Berkshire Hathaway (Geico, Long Cos) BRK-B* Best Buy Co Inc BBY BOK Financial Corp (Bank of Arizona) BOKF Bombardier Inc* (Bombardier Aerospace) BBDB CB Richard Ellis Group CBG Citigroup Inc C Comcast Corp CMCSA Community Health Sys (Northwest Med Cntrs) CYH Computer Sciences Corp CSC Convergys Corp CVG Costco Wholesale Corp COST CenturyLink (Qwest Communications) CTL Cvs/Caremark (CVS pharmacy) CVS Delta Air Lines DAL Dillard Department Stores DDS Dover Corp (Sargent Controls & Aerospace) DOV DR Horton Inc DHI Freeport-McMoRan (Phelps Dodge) FCX Granite Construction Inc GVA Home Depot Inc HD Honeywell Intl Inc HON IBM IBM Iron Mountain IRM Intuit Inc INTU Journal Communications (KGUN 9, KMXZ) JRN JP Morgan Chase & Co JPM Kaman Corp (Electro-Optics Develpmnt Cntr) KAMN KB Home KBH Kohls Corp KSS Kroger Co (Fry's Food Stores) KR Lee Enterprises (Arizona Daily Star) LEE Lennar Corporation LEN Lowe's Cos (Lowe's Home Improvement) LOW Loews Corp (Ventana Canyon Resort) L Macerich Co (Westcor, La Encantada) MAC Macy's Inc M Marriott Intl Inc MAR Meritage Homes Corp MTH Northern Trust Corp NTRS Northrop Grumman Corp NOC Penney, J.C. JCP Pulte Homes Inc (Pulte, Del Webb) PHM Raytheon Co (Raytheon Missile Systems) RTN Roche Holdings AG (Ventana Medical Systems) RHHBY Safeway Inc SWY Sanofi-Aventis SA SNY Sears Holdings (Sears, Kmart, Customer Care) SHLD SkyWest Inc SKYW Southwest Airlines Co LUV Southwest Gas Corp SWX Stantec Inc STN Target Corp TGT TeleTech Holdings Inc TTEC Texas Instruments Inc TXN Time Warner Inc (AOL) TWX Ual Corp (United Airlines) UAL Union Pacific Corp UNP Apollo Group Inc (University of Phoenix) APOL US Airways Group Inc LCC US Bancorp (US Bank) USB Wal-Mart Stores Inc (Wal-Mart, Sam's Club) WMT Walgreen Co WAG Wells Fargo & Co WFC Western Alliance Bancorp (Alliance Bank) WAL Zions Bancorp (National Bank of Arizona) ZION Data Source: Dow Jones Market Watch *Quotes in U.S. dollars, except Bombardier is Canadian dollars.

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New short-sale process is getting faster decisions By Roger Yohem Inside Tucson Business Sales of foreclosed homes in the Tucson region hit a five-year low in February, driven by a mix of revisions to federal guidelines for short sales and tighter inventory. Last month, 279 distressed houses were sold in Pima County, the lowest monthly total since March 2008 when there were 275 sales. Trustee’s sales notices also declined, in step with a downward trend that began in May 2012 when there was a peak of 984 foreclosure notices. Last month, the number of foreclosure notices was down to 534, according to the Pima County Recorder’s Office (see chart). “Obviously, it’s a good sign that trustee’s notices are down. We’re seeing some positive changes in the marketplace that revised the short-sale process. It’s all about supply and demand,” said Cathy Erchull, president for 2013 of the Tucson Association of Realtors. In February, Fannie Mae revised its procedures to streamline the documentation and processing of short sales. Additionally, the government-sponsored agency assigned more personnel to focus solely on short sales. The process had been so complex, inconsistent, slow and cumbersome that frustrated under water home owners, potential buyers and lenders stayed away. A short sale requires the mutual consent of the lender and borrower. The proceeds from selling the property are “short” of the amount owed. Considered an alternative to foreclosure, both parties can benefit

THE PULSE: Median Price Active Listings New Listings Pending Sales Homes Closed

TUCSON REAL ESTATE

2/25/2013

2/18/2013

$150,000 5,041 404 459 357

$155,000 5,069 332 445 203

Source: Long Realty Research Center

Notices of Trustees Sales Pima County Recorder Foreclosure 2008 699 598 661 700 720 742 721 814 782 921 675

January February March April May June July August September October November

December Total Monthly avg.

30 YEAR 15 YEAR 5/1 ARM

Current

2010 863 982 1,089 985 890 862 1,111 1,067 1,090 1,019 829

923 1,038 876 8,956 12,184 11,663 746 1,015 972

2011 975 762 948 721 748 693 666 917 797 816 754

2012 705 918 904 910 984 946 797 794 625 638 534

636 532 9,433 9,287 786 774

2013

631 534

1,165 583

Pima County Recorder’s Office data

because the negative financial impacts are somewhat moderated. Erchull said that Fannie Mae “heard the complaints” and cut both the bureaucracy and the paperwork to accelerate the process. “Now after documents are submitted, lenders must answer in 30 to 60 days,” she said. Going forward, that should decrease foreclosure notices and distressed sales. Home owners and lenders got a viable option to circumvent foreclosure “by not using a trustee’s deed.” In 2012, an average of 485 foreclosed homes were sold each month. After the housing market collapse in 2008, the average of foreclosed home sales peaked at 580 sales per month in 2011. So far, the 2013 pace is 348 units per month. Currently, there are 333 short-sale and 516 bank-owned house listings. In addition, there are 4,237 traditional listings, bringing the total to 5,086 units for sale in the Tucson region. “The majority of homes now are normal listings,” Erchull said. General information about the short-

WEEKLY MORTGAGE RATES Program

2009 882 1,016 1,154 1,093 991 1,002 1,063 1,130 1,008 948 859

Last Week

3/5/2013

One 12 Month 12 Month Year Ago High Low

3.50% 3.625%APR 3.50% 3.625%APR 4.95% 4.95% 3.38% 3.00% 3.25%APR 2.88% 3.125% APR 4.22% 4.22% 2.75% 2.63% 2.875%APR 2.63% 2.875% APR 2.87% 2.87% 2.70%

The above rates have a 1% origination fee and 0 discount . FNMA/FHLMC maximum conforming loan amount is $417,000 Conventional Jumbo loans are loans above $417,000 Information provided by Randy Hotchkiss, National Certified Mortgage Consultant (CMC) Hotchkiss Financial, Inc. P.O. Box 43712 Tucson, Arizona 85733 • 520-324-0000 MB #0905432. Rates are subject to change without notice based upon market conditions.

sale revisions is at www.homepathforshortsales.com . For real estate agents who have problems with a specific short sale, they can go to www.homepathforshortsales. com/hpshortsaleinquiry.html for direct assistance from Fannie Mae.

Home prices going up Average home prices increased 8.2 percent in the Tucson metropolitan area over the past year. Projections are that by early October, prices will rise another 2.2 percent. And from there, the forecast gets even better. The region’s housing market is expected to gain more value momentum. Average home prices are projected to grow 7.2 percent annually from the third quarter of 2012 through the third quarter of 2017, according to data out this week from the Fiserv Case-Shiller Indexes. Fiserv Case-Shiller tracks home trends in 380 markets. In most areas, the data trends are toward a “return to normal” housing market. Overall, gains in values have been solid and broad-based. By 2014, home prices will be rising in nearly every market of the U.S., according to Fiserv chief economist David Stiff. “In all the bubble-crash markets, foreclosures will have a persistent but diminishing drag on price appreciation. Since the timing of the disposition of foreclosed properties can be uncertain, we will witness choppy price movements as individual metro markets stabilize,” he said. In general, most bank-owned properties have been absorbed. As a result, “foreclosures are no longer pulling home prices down,” he added. In the Tucson region, home prices peaked in the first quarter of 2006 and had

fallen by 40.4 percent as of the third quarter of 2012. The biggest one-year decline was 19.8 percent from the first quarter 2008 to the same quarter in 2009, according to Fiserv Case-Shiller data dating back to 1980.

Dean joins CBRE Veteran property manager Mona Deane has joined CBRE in the firm’s Asset Services Group. Deane moves to CBRE, 3719 N. Campbell Ave., from Picor Commercial Real Estate Services, where she was for 4½ years. Deane has more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience including the direct management of office, industrial and retail product for private and institutional investors. Contact her at mona.deane@cbre.com or (520) 323-5116.

TUCA makeover July 31 is the deadline for non-profit organizations to apply for a property “makeover” from the Tucson Utility Contractors Association (TUCA). Called Volunteer Day, each year TUCA members donate materials and labor to a community organization for site improvements. Non-profits can apply by submitting a brief letter describing the organization and the type of work needed. Send it to TUCA, 1842 W. Grant Road, Suite 103, Tucson 85745.

Sales and leases • Ayaaz Ismail and Romeo Esquivel purchased Unit 11 of Building 4 at the Magee Corporate Center, 2205 W. Magee Road, for $257,805 from Landmark Title Trust No. 18183-Tf, represented by Tom Nieman and Richard Kleiner, Picor Commercial Real Estate Services. The buyers were represented by Andrew Sternberg, Oxford Realty Advisors. • ParMerica leased 10,686 square feet at 3700 E. Columbia St., Suite 100, from Holualoa Columbia Industrial LLC, represented by Rob Glaser, Picor Commercial Real Estate Services. The tenant was represented by Michael England, Cresa Dallas. • San Plumbing Supply leased 4,800 square feet at 1121 W. Grant Road, Suite 401, from Sloat Family Partnership, represented by Stephen Cohen and Russell Hall, Picor Commercial Real Estate Services. The tenant was represented by Patrick Welchert, also with Picor. • El Rio Community Health Centers leased 4,600 square feet at 210 W. Fifth St., Suites 4 and 6, from Rich Rodgers Investment, represented by Brandon Rodgers, Picor Commercial Real Estate Services. The tenant was represented by James Hardman, Desco Southwest.

Email sales and leases and other real estate news items to ryohem@azbiz.com. Inside Real Estate & Construction appears weekly.

20 MARCH 8, 2013

INSIDE TUCSON BUSINESS

EDITORIAL BIZ BUZZ

Why they’re laughing at Texas and Phoenix They were having a good laugh when I was in San Francisco last month. The joke had to do with Texas Gov. Rick Perry visiting California to try to persuade businesses to relocate to his more business-friendly state. There’s even a marketing campaign using the slogan, “Texas Wide Open for Business.” Perry didn’t say if he got commitments from any business ready to bolt the Golden State but judging from what DAVID HATFIELD I saw, he wasn’t being taken seriously. Really? Leave San Francisco for Texas? How many people could possibly fit into the only habitable city in Texas, Austin? San Antonio is for military people. Houston is just Detroit with more humidity. And the directions to Dallas tell it all: go east until you smell it, then follow your nose until you step in it. That’s Dallas. Seriously though, Perry and politicians — including some of ours in Arizona — can flap their gums all they want about trying to snare businesses away from the high taxes of California but the reality is the people who work for those firms are in California. They like it there and they’re not leaving. My brother has a tech firm in San Francisco. He is as vocal as anyone complaining about such things as the city’s payroll taxes. But the truth is, the only time he thought about leaving was for some other locale in the Bay Area. That was a fleeting thought. San Francisco is centrally located to where his employees live. I brought up this push to get business away from California to our son — who grew up in Tucson but now lives in San Francisco where he works in the finance industry. He told me about Jonah Lehrer’s book “Imagine: How Creativity Works.” It deals with the sociology of creativity and how business leaders can increase creativity in their workplaces. Lehrer specifically mentions Phoenix as an example that lags behind other cities in patent production, one of his measures of creativity. Despite its growth, “Phoenix has eschewed urban growth in favor of sub-urban growth. It comes as no surprise then, that Phoenix has had below-average levels of income and innovation for the last 40 years.” In my unscientific discussions, Tucson offered up slightly more interest among San Franciscans because at least it was trying to reinvigorate an urban environment and the University of Arizona has significant influence. The problem is that Tucson just doesn’t have the critical mass for other opportunities that might lure creative people to come here. Despite what some politicians might want us believe, most of the people leaving California these days are low- to middleincome people with relatively little education, as the Wall Street Journal reported this week from the U.S. Census’ American Community Survey. The fact is, California has seen an increase in the number of people earning more than $200,000 a year moving into the state. Politicians would be well-advised to first make their states an enticing place where creative people want to live. Once they do that, they’ll have a much easier time persuading businesses to come where they can find workers.

Contact David Hatfield at dhatfield@azbiz.com or (520) 295-4237.

EDITORIAL

Next challenge: city Development Services The stories are legion. A quick-service restaurant was building a new structure on its property near a major intersection but first the owner was required to rebuild the parking lot around the old building that now sits vacant. A law firm was told it had to install a loading dock as part of its plans to remodel an office building. A developer was required to pay for road improvements at the entrance to a subdivision but when the city decided not to do the improvements, the developer cried foul and asked for a refund. “Sue us,” he was told. A hot dog vendor who received a city use permit for a specific location only to be told his stand was causing too much commotion and that he’d have to leave. When he complained to City Hall, he was told his permit was revoked with no refund. These are first-hand account stories from people who pleaded with Inside Tucson Business reporters not to report them for fear of retribution from the City of Tucson — specifically Planning and Development Services. Then two weeks ago in the Feb. 22 issue of Inside Tucson Business, Scott McDonald, an attorney with Fennemore Craig, wrote a column about a new state law (SB 1598 passed in 2011) requiring local governments to establish time frames estimating the amount of time it will take to get a decision on a permit or licensing request. The law covers every license a jurisdiction could issue but McDonald used as his example home permits. “The City of Tucson adopted a potentially controversial approach in response to the new law setting time frames that are substantially longer that those of other municipalities,” McDonald wrote. To illustrate the point, he noted that Pima County has set a time frame on a home occupancy permit at 40 calendar days. Tucson city officials set the time frame at 85 days and to make matters worse, adopted a complicated plan that encouraged applicants to opt out if they

wouldn’t hold the city to the schedule. As a reference point of time frames for home building permits adopted by other jurisdictions, both Marana and Oro Valley give themselves 60 days for most types and Sahuarita is ready, willing and waiting, giving itself just 5 days to make a decision. The new state law includes a provision to file a complaint, but you have to wonder how much good it would do. The complaint must be filed, not with an independent arbiter but with the governing board that approved the disputed time frame in the first place. In Tucson, Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and City Manager Richard Miranda have taken aggressive steps to change the city’s reputation as anti-business. But it’s a reputation that has been cultivated through years of bureaucratic indifference. Rothschild and Miranda should be commended for the faith they’ve restored at the Tucson Convention Center (TCC), the parking management entity ParkWise and at the Transportation Department. The first two were management issues and in the case of the third, we can only wonder how many years workers were doing side jobs for friends and acquaintances while on the taxpayers’ clock. And how was it that Jim Glock, who has head of the department for a decade, either never knew or did anything about it? Like the Transportation Department, the city Department of Planning and Development Services has been under the direction of the same person, Ernie Duarte, for 13 years. Duarte has worked for the city since 1984. In that time, too many people have had first-hand experiences of the department’s arbitrary and capricious requirements. Planning and Development Services is obviously the next challenge for Rothschild and Miranda. The department can no longer be allowed to be the one entity in this region that stands as an encumbrance to economic development.

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WAKE UP, TUCSON

Thanks Dad

A harsh alarm buzzes in his ear. He rolls over. The clock reads 3:15 a.m. He rolls out of bed and starts his routine getting ready for work. At 4 a.m. he’s in the car, turns the radio on to Al “Jazzbeaux” Collins on WNEW, then pilots his Oldsmobile Toronado toward the Belt Parkway making his way to the Brooklyn Terminal Market. It’s a frigid January morning as he pulls in next to the family business in which he is a partner. They have been selling domestic wholesale goods and importing tasty goods from Europe for decades. His day is full filling orders for supermarkets and restaurants all over the Brooklyn area. It is a day of constant lifting, carrying and toting heavy boxes of a variety of goods. This happens all day in a variety of unheated warehouses. The temperature outside barely gets above 31 degrees and his knees are killing him. The routine goes on for about 12 hours a day and usually six days a week. They’ve opened the place on Saturdays, but at least they get close at 2 p.m. The pain in his knees is not from an old football injury. He has been diagnosed with a severe case of osteoarthritis that feels like he’s being jabbed by someone with a sharp knife. As the years have worn on, the

MARCH 8, 2013

OPINION throbbing pain will travel up through his hips and vertebrae. This would be excruciating pain for someone with an office job, but it is doubly debilitating in the cold environs of a wholesale food CHRIS DESIMONE market, just minutes from John F. Kennedy International Airport. He gets on the phone in the afternoon and deals with a variety of suppliers here and across the sea. He is ordering barrels of olives, bacala (salted cod), olive oil and Perugina candies from Italy. He then tackles an incoming delivery of 90-pound forms of Aurrichio provolone storing them away in a huge walk-in refrigerator. The day continues with the constant moving of heavy boxes. Vendor shipments coming in and customers with their orders heading out the door. Each move is a new dagger in the knees and back. Each dagger hurts a little bit more than the one before. The traffic isn’t too bad going to work at

5 a.m. Trying to escape Brooklyn for home in Nassau County at 6 p.m. the traffic can be “H, E, Double toothpicks”! The trip in that took 40 minutes takes almost an hour and a half the other direction. The Belt Parkway can resemble a parking lot during the evening rush. He gets off at Shelter Rock Road exit and navigates his way up the hill to the local high school and parks the car. He pays his $2 admission fee, walks around the end of a basketball court and sidles next to the love of his life. He then watches his oldest boy, Joseph, finish the night getting 18 points and nine rebounds against rival Garden City High. For the first time today, he is truly enjoying himself. They get home and his wife heats up some leftover baked ziti and this family of four goes over what happened that day. Yes, the family sat at the same table in those days and shared the good and the bad of the day. After dinner, he slogs up the stairs, takes a shower and puts some Ben-Gay on his knees and neck. He didn’t know it then, but years later the doctors would install two artificial knees and a new hip. His one lifelong solace, especially later in life,

would be reading. He always finished his night with at least 15 minutes of a good book before nodding off. He couldn’t go to bed too late, there’s was that 3:15 a.m. alarm. He did this for years without too much complaint. This routine, combined with his debilitating arthritis, led him down a path of lingering pain and increasing immobility. One problem led to another, but he would rarely complain about it to anyone except his wife. Whenever the two grandchildren visited it seemed the pain would vanish for at least a moment, but the family knew better. The path of pain ended Feb. 28, 2013. In a dark and still hospital room, he closed his eyes and his soul ascended to his Lord. He was the most selfless man I ever knew. He was an amazing friend, husband, dad and grandfather. His name was Robert DeSimone. He’s my dad. I am glad he is no longer in pain, but I miss the hell out of him. Thanks for everything, Dad.

Contact Chris DeSimone at provenpartner@comcast.net. DeSimone co-hosts “Wake Up Tucson,” 6-8 a.m. weekdays on The Voice KVOI 1030-AM.

GUEST OPINION

How legal marijuana will affect troubled families Last fall, voters for the first time approved the legalization of marijuana for recreational use at the state level — in Colorado and Washington. Since then, much attention has focused on the conflict between state and federal law, which still classifies the drug as illegal. But state legalization also raises important questions at the personal level. Many of them center around the family. As attorneys practicing family law in Colorado, we feel it’s important to consider these questions, especially since the push is on for recreational legalization in other states. Oregon, California and Maine may be next. (Arizona, 17 other states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana.) Colorado’s constitutional amendment states that individuals can purchase marijuana from authorized retailers and that licensed growers can produce commercial quantities for retailers. The intent is to treat marijuana like alcohol. That’s not so easy in practice. Based on our legal experience, we’d like to offer a scenario — fictional, but realistic — to illustrate how consequential Colorado’s change will be for families, and how far the state still needs to go to address unresolved issues. Consider Michael and Elizabeth Jones who have two children, Ashley, age 16, and Monica, age 13. The parents are no longer such a happy couple, although they all still live in a lovely home in a well-off suburb of Denver. Ashley is a rebel — hanging out

with the wrong boys, sneaking out of the house late at night, and thumbing her nose at her parents’ authority now that she has a driver’s license and a car. Monica is just the ALEXANDRA M. WHITE opposite of her big sister, struggling at school socially. Three to four nights a week, Michael quietly steps into the backyard or goes to the basement to smoke a joint. Elizabeth has never approved of CAROLYN WITKUS his marijuana use, and as the children get older she has increasing concerns about their exposure to it. Michael says: “What’s the big deal? It’s legal here now. You don’t hear me complain when you have wine after dinner.” Michael decides to make some extra money to pay down credit-card bills (the perfect family vacation to Hawaii is expensive). He starts a small grow opera-

tion in the basement to sell marijuana. Elizabeth files for divorce — and she doesn’t want Michael to have the children at all because she believes the grow operation and his recreational marijuana use are dangerous to the children. What happens to families when pot is involved? Drug use is often an issue in divorce and parenting cases. Usually, one parent does not approve of the other’s drinking or use of illegal drugs — or addiction. Historically, it’s been fairly easy to take a case to court with proof that a parent is illegally using drugs and limit that parent’s contact with the children. That all changed with marijuana legalization. The courts do not routinely take children away from a parent because that parent legally consumes a reasonable quantity of alcohol — a legal substance. Will the courts take the same approach with marijuana? On one hand, judges tend to represent a more conservative demographic and may continue to be shocked by a parent’s recreational marijuana use (not to mention the state law’s conflict with federal law). Yet the intention of the new Colorado law appears to be to treat marijuana as much like alcohol as possible: Legalize it, but regulate production, sale and use to mitigate any dangers associated with it. If we don’t penalize a parent for having a glass of wine or two after dinner while the

kids are in bed, why should we penalize a parent for smoking a small quantity of pot? Can a parent handle a crisis while high? These are the arguments raised by Michael’s and Elizabeth’s now-contentious custody case. Meanwhile, Ashley is invited on a camping trip with friends (including teens her mother doesn’t approve of ). When Elizabeth refuses to allow it, Ashley runs away to her father’s and refuses to speak to her mother. But Michael comes home from work one evening and finds Ashley and her car gone, along with half of his crop of marijuana. He soon receives a call from police in Nebraska. Ashley has been arrested for possession of an illegal substance. Even if she were of age, marijuana isn’t a legal substance in Nebraska. Colorado will have to work through these issues. Other states considering legalization should realize treating marijuana like alcohol is not as easy as it sounds.

Contact Alexandra White at awhite@ ggfamilylaw.com and Carolyn Witkus at Carolyn@ggfamilylaw.com. Both are shareholders at the law firm of Gutterman Griffiths, Littleton, Colo., and both are attorneys specializing in high-conflict parenting litigation, including cases involving substance abuse.

22 MARCH 8, 2013

INSIDE TUCSON BUSINESS

OPINION ADVOCATING FOR BUSINESS

Sometimes you just have to ask yourself, ‘Really?’ After hearing a magnificent piano concert at a major music hall, a woman approached the pianist backstage and said, “I’d give anything to play the piano as well as you.” The pianist looked the woman in the eye and simply said, “No, you wouldn’t.” What the artist was saying is that if the woman really wanted to play the piano as well as he did she would have practiced and sacrificed to be able to do so — just as he had done. A sales representative promises her sales manager she’s going to exceed her sales target this year but then knocks off early on Fridays or finds ways to replace results with activity. Lip service or commitment? Does she really want to hit her sales target or is she just kind of interested in hitting it? Being an achiever isn’t easy. If it were, everyone would be one. There’s an old axiom in business that says “commitment” trumps “interest” every time. When public policy makers say, “We’re pro-business” and “We want to help improve

the local economy and create jobs,” I sometimes wonder if they really want to do so. If they really wanted to improve the economy and create jobs, wouldn’t they find out what barriers MIKE VARNEY there are to companies moving here and local companies expanding here, and then really do some things to remove those barriers? Actually doing things is commitment. I grew up as a cheddarhead in Wisconsin. You can’t live in that state and be a fan of any NFL team other than the Green Bay Packers — not comfortably, that is. Vince Lombardi was the legendary coach of the Packers in the 1960s. One of the reasons he became a legend was that he took a bunch of perennial losers and won five league championships including the first two Super Bowls over a period of just seven years. Lombardi demanded commitment. One

LETTERS

“regional haze” that, by their own admission, will provide no visible or health effects on the region. The economic effect however, will be quite visible. The cost to Arizona will be roughly $1 billion. If the plant closes, hundreds of jobs will be lost, water rates will skyrocket, ranchers and growers will be devastated and the neediest among us will suffer the most. As the most significant economic engine in a recovering southwest U.S., the future prosperity of Arizona hinges on the protection of this vital, safe and reliable power source. Our representatives in Washington cannot simply attempt to solve this problem by writing letters or attempting to draft a piece of legislation. Pressure must be put on the President, the EPA and the U.S. House and Senate Leadership to save Arizona. This must be a top priority for our delegation. Arizona’s economic survival may depend on it.

Pressure feds to keep EPA from ruining CAP TO: The Editor FROM: Rep. Adam Kwasman RE: Navajo Generating Station While Arizonans are attempting to recover from the Great Recession, it is the role of the state Legislature to foster an environment of economic growth through tax reform and sensible regulatory reform. However, sometimes it takes the state representatives to give an appropriate “nudge” to those in Washington, D.C. The Navajo Generating Station provides power for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) bringing Colorado River water to Southern Arizona. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently decided that the coal plant must provide “green” equipment in order to limit

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