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High Time?

TUSD Delays Start of In-Person Instruction

Arizona Biennial returns to Tucson Museum of Art

Voters once again must decide whether to legalize recreational weed.

By David Abbott

OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Is Ready for its Closeup

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Tucson Unified School District delays returning to class

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ARTS & CULTURE

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Arizona Biennial returns to the Tucson Museum of Art

CITY WEEK

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Socially distanced events around town

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Shameless Self Promotion

I’M EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT Tucson Weekly brought home seven awards in this year’s Arizona Press Club competition.

Associate editor Jeff Gardner won a first place award in the science writing category among community papers for his story about autonomous trucking in Southern Arizona.

Judge Lisa M. Krieger, Pulitzer finalist and science writer at the Mercury News, said Gardner’s work was a “thorough and comprehensive look at the introduction of autonomous vehicles in the world of trucking.” Gardner also won second place in the community political reporting category for his story on the Trump administration’s efforts to build a border wall across the San Pedro River, Southern Arizona’s last free-flowing river.

Brian Smith, who pens the Tucson Salvage column, won three awards. He took first place statewide in the personality profile category for “Requiem for a Dream,” about artist Alvaro Enciso, who places handmade crosses in the desert to mark places where migrant bodies have been found. Smith took first place in the community personality profile category for “Step by Step,” a profile of Marquez “Quezzy” Johnson, who teaches children dance moves at DansWest.

Calendar editor Emily Dieckman took

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second place in the community personality profile category and third place honors in community social issues reporting category.

Congratulations also go to our new staff reporter, Nicole Ludden, who won second place in the statewide immigration reporting category, for the work she did with ASU’s Cronkite News Service.

In the book this week: Cannabis 520 columnist David Abbott gives you the buzz on Prop 207, the proposition on this year’s ballot that would legalize recreational marijuana; staff reporter Ludden tells you what’s happening with TUSD’s latest plan to return to the classroom; columnist Tom Danehy looks at whether Catholics should support presidential hopeful Joe Biden; managing editor Austin Counts looks at the trouble that’s been brewing for Viva Coffee House; longtime arts writer Margaret Regan checks out Tucson Museum of Art’s Arizona Bienniel; Dieckman shines a light on Gaslight’s new outdoor production; and there’s plenty more to keep you busy in our pages.

Thanks for reading and stay safe!

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Sedgwick said delaying the vote will put a further burden on teachers who would have to quickly adapt their lesson plans to fit a new hybrid model.

“I think we understand how difficult it is to prepare a classroom for a school year with just two weeks’ notice, and for this board to continue to put this decision off is to make hundreds of thousands of people wait for our decision every two weeks,” Sedgwick said.

Trujillo mentioned many teachers’ concerns about adjusting to a hybrid model, but ultimately recognized that nearly half of survey respondents who want in-person learning.

JEFF GARDNER “I think we are in a situation where we TUSD staff and community members protesting against full school reopenings. have an opportunity to craft a solution that works for all of our stakeholders, and yes, the teachers are a major stakeholder in our district, but so are the parents,” Trujillo said. “We have had 45% of 20,000 responTUSD delays return to in-person teaching until November at the soonest dents that have said they want some sort of

By Nicole Ludden influenced the movement backward of this in-person instruction, they want some sort nicolel@tucsonlocalmedia.com key metric in the last two weeks that still of a hybrid model. If even 5% of the 20% of does have me concerned.” those respondents leave the district over THE TUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL According to a survey taken by more this, our financial implications could be District’s governing board approved a than 20,000 parents and teachers within staggering and they could be crippling.” new hybrid learning model for returning TUSD, 56% support remote learning only, However, based on Pima County Health to classes but delayed voting on when to while 44% support returning to classes with department data, Trujillo said the board implement it. a hybrid model. has “very justified reasons” to wait to vote In a 4-1 vote, the board approved the “This hybrid model places education on a return date. new model but decided to delay voting on utterly last on the list of priorities,” Cheryl a return date until the next TUSD board Watters, a teacher and parent in the district TUSD’S NEW HYBRID MODEL meeting Oct. 27. said in an email read aloud at the board Superintendent Dr. Gabriel Trujillo asked meeting. “Instead of teaching, I will be disThe TUSD board approved a new hyboard members to consider a new start date infecting my classrooms and monitoring brid model for returning to school in-perfor the revised hybrid model on Nov. 12, my students to be sure they are complying son that involves separating students into dependent on Pima County data tracking with the safety protocols. I will now be hybrid and online-only groups. the spread of coronavirus in the county. responsible for the physical health of my Four days a week, in-person students To move to the hybrid model, TUSD students. How can I focus on teaching learn at their physical school sites for must meet criteria from Pima County’s when I carry that weight?” the first half of the day and work remoteCOVID-19 Progress Report, which tracks Vicki Saunders, an office assistant at ly from home the rest of the day. On local disease data, healthcare capacity and Rincon High School, wrote, “I’m strongly Wednesdays, every student attends class public health capacity. As of Oct. 1, eight of in favor of moving to a hybrid model on remotely. the nine health criteria are making “progOct. 19, because our students are asking to Remote students work asynchronously ress” or have been officially “met.” return and begging to return... We have so in the mornings and attend online teachPima County has not met the benchmark many students struggling academically, er-led instruction in the afternoon. While of a two-week decline in the number of mentally and physically.” teachers are instructing remote students COVID-19 cases, and therefore, the district Largely split on the decision of returning the second half of the day, students in the does not currently meet guidelines set out to schools, the TUSD board voted to delay hybrid system work asynchronously. by the Pima County Health Department to the vote 3-2 with members Adelita Grijalva Asynchronous work involves workreturn to in-person classes. and Rachael Sedgwick opposing. ing on class projects and assignments, Trujillo says this guideline hasn’t been “If this item passes and we table this social-emotional learning lessons with met because of some TUSD schools’ prox- until [October] 27, I would hope that counselors, specialized services and imity to the University of Arizona campus. on that date, we can have a real honest working on digital platforms, according to “TUSD is unique amongst the school discussion about pushing this off and the a presentation from TUSD. districts in that we have six schools that majority of the board will make a decision Sedgwick, the only board member to are directly on the U of A campus or then,” Grijalva said. “While I know that our vote against the new hybrid model, said adjacent to it, so this is really close to home teachers are in limbo and will feel it, I think managing teaching both online and for us,” Trujillo said. “It’s the fact that the that will give us an opportunity to get some in-person could lead to teacher burnout.

COVID-19 spike at the U of A has most breathing room.”

She also questioned the possibility of so-

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cial distancing and thoroughly sanitizing in a school setting.

Trujillo said the hybrid model involves extending the passing period for secondary schools to 10 minutes and allows teachers to use a “vindicator bottle” to sanitize their classrooms between class periods.

While he recognized teacher burnout as “a significant concern,” Trujillo also said the district made many accommodations since its first hybrid model draft, which would not have allowed students contact with their teachers every day, and would put some at risk of having to switch to a different teacher than they started the school year with.

The superintendent said teachers would not have to manage two environments at the same time and would have daily preparation time.

Board member Bruce Burke supported the hybrid model and acknowledged the collaboration TUSD put into creating it.

“I think you’ve really done a very good job in pulling together all the disparate elements of concern within the district, a lot of legitimate concerns,” Burke said.

“We recognize that no model is perfect, but this one is very, very good.”

TUSD also came up with a contingency plan if the percentage of students who wish to attend classes in-person is at an unsafe level. This level, which the district refers to as a “threshold,” depends on each campus, but TUSD says most are between 45-60% of students on campus.

If a threshold becomes too high, the school will have the option of splitting their in-person students into two cohorts to attend classes on different days. Cohort A would attend on Mondays and Thursdays while cohort B would attend on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Starting today, TUSD will distribute emails, robocalls and text messages to families to remind them to choose the hybrid or remote plan within the district’s online portal.

The school board will reassess Pima County Health Department data and vote on a return date when they meet again Oct. 27.

“Minimally, we do have some time and opportunities to gather some more feedback, because I do think that this model and what you all were able to do is only because the district was willing to listen to feedback,” Grijalva said. “Now, I think we just have to look at what the safety concerns are, which I do think are legitimate, and we’ll continue to look at the data.” ■

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CAMPUS CASES IN DECLINE More classes starting this week at UA

By Nicole Ludden nicolel@tucsonlocalmedia.com THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA WILL ALLOW students to attend in-person classes of 30 students or fewer this week, UA President Robert C. Robbins said in a news conference Monday, Oct. 12.

The change will bring 1,500 more students to campus every week, and classes will continue “if and only if” public health data gauging the spread of coronavirus in the county permits, Robbins said.

The university first predicted 2,500 students would return to class as it moves into phase two of its reopening plan, but fewer students wanted to return than expected.

“Students and their instructors had the opportunity to evaluate what they wanted, and in the spirit of shared governance, make collective decisions about how to proceed at this point,” Robbins said. “There are many, many students who want that in-person interaction...but obviously, there are people who don’t want it.”

From Oct. 1-Oct. 10, UA found 42 positive coronavirus cases after administering 6,963 tests for a positivity rate of 0.6%, down from 2.3% in the previous 10-day period.

“What we’ve been able to show over the last two, four weeks...is an ability of how we respond,” Pima County Health Department Director Dr. Theresa Cullen said at the press conference. “We’ve developed this deep collaboration, transparency, sharing of data, sharing

resources and a recognition that working together is required for us to combat this pandemic.”

Over the past week, the university’s CART team, a collaboration with the UA and Tucson police departments that looks for incidents of noncompliance to COVID-19 precautions, issued five university-related red tags, seven citations and eight code-of-conduct referrals.

Robbins said nine parties CART responded to had more than 10 people, while three parties had about 50 attendees.

“It’s important that more and more, we see less and less of these large gatherings, which really are events that you might even term super spreader events when they become too large,” UA Reentry Task Force Director Richard Carmona said.

Robbins said the university has no recorded cases of COVID-19 transmission within a classroom or laboratory setting.

With six weeks left in UA’s fall semester, the administration is looking ahead to potential coronavirus-spreading events. Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, and many students have traveling plans over fall break.

“We’re working hard to prevent an uptick in positive cases, in part because it could impact positive rates as students are preparing to travel home for the fall break,” Robbins said.

Robbins outlined steps the university is asking students to take to prevent the spread of coronavirus, which include requiring all main campus students to complete a survey with their fall break traveling plans.

UA will also conduct a “testing blitz” from Nov. 9-Nov.15, and those who test positive will be required to quarantine for 10 days. Students are also “strongly encouraged” to complete the semester remotely if they travel. ■

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because of the scientific value,” Lauretta said upon Nightingale’s selection last year. “The high latitudes means it stays relatively cool, and the primary objective of OSIRIS-REx is to bring back organic material and water-bearing material from the early solar system. And being in those high latitudes we think gives us the best chance to preserve that kind of material.”

Because the spacecraft and asteroid are millions of miles from Earth, it takes nearly 20 minutes for scientists to receive signals. This lag means OSIRIS-REx cannot be commanded in real-time, and must instead perform the entire sample collection sequence autonomously.

To prepare for the sample retrieval, the science team staged two rehearsal events earlier this year. The rehearsals Courtesy NASA / University of Arizona involved descent and navigational maneuvers, as well as a chance to verify that An illustration of the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx preparing to contact the asteroid Bennu, set to take place Oct. 20. the spacecraft’s imaging and ranging systems operated as expected.

“It’s not so much we’re altering anything as we go through each rehearsal, but we’re learning exactly how the spaceOSIRIS-REx begins countdown to asteroid collection craft responds in real-life situations,” Morton said. “The hardest thing for us is having to know how to do this without lead for the OSIRIS-REx mission. “It

By Jeff Gardner having done it before.” all boils down to this first attempt. The jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com During the four-and-a-half-hour entire team is excited and is barreling toward our target date, getting ready for sample collection event, the spacecraft will descend some 2,500 feet from orbit that sample collection.”

ON OCT. 20, SCIENTISTS AT THE toward the asteroid’s surface. While the The spacecraft launched from the University of Arizona will monitor a Earth in September 2016 and is planned spacecraft will “touch down” to collect outer-space heist that is more than the samples, it will not land on the asterto return in 2023. Even before reaching 10 years and one billion miles in the oid. Instead it will extend a robotic arm the asteroid in December 2018, images making. to the asteroid, firing a jet of pressurized sent from the spacecraft indicated the That date is when the OSIRIS-REx nitrogen onto the surface to kick up dust. spacecraft will brush against the asteroid mission would be more difficult than The spacecraft will collect a minimum of Bennu to collect rocks and dust from its once thought; the asteroid’s surface was far rougher than planned, with more than 2 oz. (about 60 grams) of rocky material surface. If successful, it will be the first American spacecraft to retrieve a sample 200 boulders larger than 33 feet in diam- in its sampling chamber. Should OSIRISREx fail to capture sufficient samples, anfrom an asteroid—all without humans eter, and is described as a “rubble pile” asteroid. At roughly 1,600 feet across, the other attempt will take place “no earlier aboard. asteroid is about the same size as Pusch than January 2021.”

While OSIRIS-REx is a NASA misAfter the samples are retrieved, the Ridge in the Catalina Mountains, but sion, it has long been a topic of interest because of its uneven surface, the space- spacecraft will calculate the amount of here in Tucson due to lead researcher samples collected. Scientists should craft only has an area the size of three Dante Lauretta, a professor of planeknow if they’ve gathered sufficient samtary science at UA. Lauretta describes parking spaces to collect samples in.

OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral InterpreAfter examining the asteroid’s surface, ples within a week.

While the central goal for OSIRIS-REx tation, Resource Identification, Security, the team selected a site nicknamed is to collect a sample from the surface of Regolith Explorer) as the most ambitious “Nightingale” as the best to collect Bennu, researchers have already highprogram the university has ever led, with a sample from. Lauretta admitted he the potential for us to better understand thought it would be obvious from initial lighted several key findings from the imaging which spot on the asteroid mission. the origins of life on our planet.

In late 2018, scientists announced “This will be a culmination, for some would be best to collect from, but it they had discovered “water-bearing clay of the people on the team, of 20 years of turned out to be “nothing of the sort.” minerals” on the asteroid. While these work,” said Erin Morton, communications “This [site] really came out on top

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hydrated minerals do not mean Bennu contains liquid water, they indicate that liquid water was present at some point in the past on Bennu’s parent body, a much larger asteroid.

New data also indicates Bennu’s rotational speed is increasing, only at about one second per century however. This increase is due to the YORP effect, where differences on the surface of the asteroid unequally scatter solar radiation. Due to Bennu’s aforementioned roughness, it is catching and reflecting sunlight at different angles, causing its rotational rate to drift.

Thanks to OSIRIS-REx, scientists are also seeing for the first time how this “bombardment” of solar radiation can physically wear down asteroids. According to a paper led by Jamie Molaro of the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, rocks on Bennu appear to be cracking as sunlight heats them up during the asteroid’s day and they cool down at night. According to Lauretta, how quickly this occurs relative to other weathering processes tells us how and how quickly the surface has changed.

“Another thing we learned that was really shocking were the particle ejection events that were happening,” Morton said. “For a long time scientists have thought you have asteroids, which are lifeless bodies, and you have comets which eject all sorts of ice and rocks as they go. But over the years we’ve seen maybe it’s not so cut and dry. But this is the first time we can see these asteroid ejections within a kilometer. We were able to watch the birth and death cycle of a natural satellite. We’ve watched a piece of the asteroid come off, orbit a couple of times, and then fall back down.”

Beyond discoveries, OSIRIS-REx has also achieved two Guinness World Records: In June 2019, OSIRIS-REx became the spacecraft to orbit closest to an asteroid, at a distance of about 2,200 feet.

Bennu is also the smallest object to ever be orbited by a spacecraft.

While local in-person viewings are limited due to COVID, NASA will be broadcasting live during Oct. 20 on nasa. gov/multimedia/nasatv. In addition, OSIRIS-REx’s Twitter will confirm each step of the sample retrieval. There will also be a livestream with mission representatives on asteroidmission.org. ■

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officials to implement their own mandates on June 17. The ensuing local policies CDC report supports use of masks, were applicable to approximately 85% of social distancing the total Arizona population.

By Jeff Gardner COVID-19 cases declined by apjeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com proximately 75% following “sustained A NEW REPORT FROM THE CENTERS prevention efforts” across Arizona. for Disease Control and Prevention exam- These prevention efforts include wearing masks, limiting public events and closing ines how effective Arizona’s mitigation certain businesses such as bars, movie measures were on stopping the increase theaters and gyms. of COVID-19. The report, which tracked The report states: The number of case numbers from Jan. 22 to Aug. 7, Tucson Weekly file photo shows a clear correlation in reduced virus COVID-19 cases in Arizona stabilized and cases after face masks and social distanc- then decreased after sustained implementation and enforcement of statewide and ing were mandated.

In Arizona, the average number of daily locally enhanced mitigation measures, Suspicious text leads to vote-by-mail scam alert beginning approximately two weeks after virus cases increased approximately 151% implementation and enforcement of mask after the statewide stay-at-home order was

By Austin Counts tens of millions of texts a day and errors mandates and enhanced sanitation praclifted in mid-May, with Gov. Doug Ducey austin@tucsonlocalmedia.com are inevitable. declaring “we are clearly on the other side tices began on June 17; further decreases AS EARLY BALLOTS ARRIVED IN mail“Our data is over 90 percent accurate,” of this pandemic.” were observed during July 13–August 7, boxes across Pima County last week, reg- Landau wrote. “We reach out beforeafter statewide limitations and closures of According to CDC data, two weeks istered Democrats received a suspicious hand to the Secretary of State staff in certain services and businesses. after Arizona’s stay-at-home orders were text alerting voters they’re not registered good faith before we start texting. We Ultimately, a combination of first lifted on May 15, daily new COVID as permanent mail voters—when in fact, also immediately paused our texting voluntary and enforceable measures is cases increased from 808 on June 1 to they are. and changed our script as soon as the more effective than any single measure, 2,026 on June 15. This led to a peak in The Pima County Recorder’s Office Pima County staff let us know there was although public policy can effectively cases from June 29 to July 2. Cases then even issued a warning to not open the a problem with a link and with the data began to reduce after Ducey allowed local increase social distancing. ■ text’s link to a Vote.org page on their source.”

Twitter account Thursday, Oct. 8, susLandau estimates no more than 1,000 pecting it could be fraudulent. and 2,000 Pima County Democrats reRegistered Democrat Kristi Williams ceived the text since the company did not Avoid the lines at polling places and the possible spread of COVID-19 when you vote this year. was perplexed by the text she received receive complaints from their texters, he around 3 p.m. on Thursday saying she wrote. However, the Pima County Recordwas not a permanent mail voter. When er’s Office received enough complaints she opened her mailbox moments later, to issue Thursday’s Twitter alert, county there sat the sage green envelope conofficials said. The episode highlights taining her early ballot. heightened concerns about disinfor“I was confused at first. I’ve been domation regarding early ballots, which ing early voting for many years so I was growing numbers of Arizona voters have shocked by the text,” Williams said. “I embraced in recent decades. More than was also worried after seeing the link in three out of four voters cast ballots by the text that someone was trying to fish mail or by dropping their ballots off at Return by Oct. 27 or drop off at any early for information and trying to make it so polling stations in 2018 and that number voting site starting Oct. 26 or polling place my vote didn’t count.” is expected to grow this year because on Election Day. Williams forwarded the text to her many voters would prefer to vote by husband, Pima County Superintendent mail in a pandemic. In an email, Vote. of Schools Dustin Williams, who warned org Director of Programs Sydney Rose the Pima County Democratic Party and wrote, “There are many organizations officials at the County Recorder’s Office. who use our tools and this is an example Turns out the text was sent by Oakof them linking to our resources within land-based Resistance Labs, a political their messaging.” Vote From Home 2020 text-bank that supports progressive has a goal of contacting 393,000 Arizona grassroots causes and candidates. The voters during the 2020 election, accordLearn more at organization was helping facilitate early ing to their website. The Pima County pima.gov/VoteSafe ballot registration texts for another Recorder’s Office recommends contactgroup, Vote From Home 2020. Resistance ing them at 520-724-4350 if you receive Labs CEO Yoni Landau responded via suspicious texts and phone calls during email that his organization sends out the election year. ■

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CATHOLICS HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN JOE BIDEN AND DONALD TRUMP

By Tom Danehy, tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com IT’S BEEN 60 YEARS SINCE AMERICA

elected a Catholic President. Joe Biden will be the second. Despite the fact that I am also a Catholic, Biden’s religion doesn’t really matter to me. I voted for Barack Obama in 2012, but if he had lost, I would have thought, “Hey, that’s kinda cool. In consecutive contests, America elected a black guy and then a Mormon.”

Someday in the not-too-distant future, we will have our first Jewish President. But after I die, they’re going to have to cut off my head, freeze it, put it on a shelf next to Ted Williams, and then thaw it out in 400 years or so in order for me to see America’s first Muslim President.

In the election of 1960, one of the main arguments against John F. Kennedy was born of straight-up religious bigotry. If Kennedy were elected, or so it went, he would be a pawn of the Vatican and take his orders directly from the Pope. If that way of thinking even exists anymore these

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days, it has faded well into the background.

But that doesn’t mean that Biden isn’t facing criticism because of his religion. He is, and it’s coming from Catholics who think that Biden just isn’t Catholic enough.

I always wanted to be a straight-A student in school, but if I get into Heaven with a B-minus, I’ll be cool with that. I have always tried to be the best Catholic I can be, but, believe me, there is an endless supply of mega-Catholics who are all too willing to tell me where I am falling short.

All I know is that I’m as Catholic as I can be and, at this stage of my life, there’s no chance that I’m somehow going to enhance my Catholic-iosity.

For certain, I’m not looking to join some cultish offshoot of my church (Like the one to which Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett belongs) where my wife is a called a handmaid and I damn sure don’t want any part of a group where women are told, “It is important for you to verbalize

your commitment to submission…. Tell him what you think about things, make your input, but let him make the decisions, and support them once they are made.”

(That comes from the People of Praise’s magazine, Vine and Branches.)

Sadly, a certain number of Catholics are single-issue voters, casting their ballots for anybody who claims to be anti-abortion, no matter how vile or un-Christian the candidate’s other stances might be. When I was young, based on the gospels I heard in church, I always thought that Jesus was a liberal. He cared about the sick and the poor, two groups that rarely get mentioned in the official party platform at the Republican National Convention. Priests were warriors for social justice. But somewhere along the line, things got hijacked by right-wingers, who then went on to form the ultimate unholy alliance with politicians, leaving many Catholics to wonder what the hell was going on.

In 2009, some members of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), a group who used to fight for social justice, joined with conservative Protestants in signing the Manhattan Declaration, a promise to fight against abortion and gay marriage. After they lost on the latter, they went all in on the former, supporting one crackpot politician after another. That includes Donald Trump, who only “became” anti-abortion after he decided to run as a Republican. (Odds are that he has actually paid for an abortion or two in his lifetime.)

In its voter guide, the USCCB argues that the fight against abortion is a “pre-eminent priority” (it isn’t). Then, the USCCB declined to add a message from the Pope himself that says “the lives of the poor, those already born, the destitute, the abandoned (are) equally sacred as (those of the) innocent unborn.” I don’t know, but if I were the Pope, I’d be doing some serious Bish-slapping about now.

The Church explicitly instructs its clergy not to tell the faithful how to vote.

(Besides the obvious, it could also threaten the Church’s tax-exempt status.) But that isn’t stopping some tRump-licking members of the clergy. For example: • The Bishop of Providence tweeted out “First time in a while that the Democratic ticket hasn’t had a Catholic on it. Sad.” • A bishop in Tyler, Texas voiced his support for a vile video made by a priest in Wisconsin that tells Catholic Democrats to “repent your support of that party or face the fires of hell.” As Robert Wuhl would say, not much gray area there.

And, of course, the Great Satanist himself, Donald Trump (who literally doesn’t even know which end of the Bible is up), said of Joe Biden, “…no religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt God.” (He speech funny.)

People shouldn’t vote for Joe Biden because he’s a practicing Catholic, and neither should they vote against him for that reason. Voting for him simply because he’s not Donald Trump is enough. ■

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A BITTER BATTLE

An eastside coffee shop is back in business—and on probation—after being shut down for repeatedly violating the local mask ordinance

By Austin Counts austin@tucsonlocalmedia.com FOR THE PAST THREE MONTHS, Viva Coffee House found itself steeping in hot water over various noncompliance violations to Pima County’s temporary COVID-19 Minimum Health Standards for Business Proclamation and corresponding Resolution 2020-49.

Infractions such as employees not wearing masks while serving customers, lack of signage alerting the public to not enter if they’re experiencing coronavirus symptoms and lack of signage encouraging social distancing protocols have been routinely disregarded by the shop’s staff, as witnessed and reported by county health inspectors.

After three failed inspections between Sept. 9 and Oct. 5, the county suspended Viva’s food service permit. Once the business showed proof of compliance, the county lifted suspension on Oct. 9, with a final warning—one more violation and your permit will be permanently revoked.

Kelly Walker, who owns the shop with his wife Andrea and her parents, said they’ve tried hard to stay in compliance with the county’s temporary regulations, but fall short due to a lack of education and communication with health department officials over what is actually required.

“We’ve been asking the county for sometime to clarify and we feel like we were shut down unjustly because we never really got answers for that,” Walker said.

“The takeaway for me is the county should educate and communicate so we don’t have misunderstandings like this.”

Walker believes his business is being targeted by the health department and the community after repeatedly charting on the county’s so-called Wall of Shame since late July. Viva’s first COVID-related inspection earlier in July showed the business was out of compliance with the county’s regulations. Walker said he was under the impression the first inspection was supposed to be educational, not punitive.

“We did our due diligence but since we were put on the county website, we’re

“We invited the county back and said, ‘Please come and resume your inspection. Let us know what we need to do and we’ll put it into place,’” Walker said.

“They did and again to our shock, they closed us down.

It was based on our Sept.

9 inspection and I think partly based on me asking them to leave, which I think under the circumstances was a reasonable response.”

Walker said his misunderstandings over mask requirements stem from a few of his employees—and himself—having health exemptions which would require them not to wear masks. In fact, the owner said he is fearful of getting sued if he asks someone, including his employees, to wear a mask in his establishment due to their underlying medical conditions.

“I think by law that (my customers) are protected by saying they have a valid health condition, ‘I am exempt,’” Walker said. “Our biggest question was: Does that apply to our baristas?

And we got the answer to that question.”

According to a recent article in the the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website entitled “Mask Exemptions During the COVID-19 Pamdemic–A New Frontier For Clinicians,” the most notable mask exceptions are people with sensory processing disorders, facial deformities and chronic pulmonary illnesses with an active exacerbation. It is unclear if Walker or his employees suffer from these ailments.

Considering Viva’s mask predicament, county health officials recommend the Walkers purchase face shields for employees who are mask-exempt to stay in compliance.

getting harassed and receiving death threats,” Walker said. “We’ve literally had such bad threats that my wife won’t let our kids play in the front yard.”

Health department records indicate Viva was in full compliance with county regulations on July 28. However a complaint to the department in early September sent health inspectors back to Walker’s shop on Sept. 9. Once confronted that his shop was out of compliance due to employees not wearing masks while serving customers, the owner kicked the inspector out. His inspection lasted a total of 11 minutes, according to the report.

“When the inspector came, I asked him to leave because (the health department) put our family and our staff in jeopardy,” Walker said. “But I sent emails immediately saying, ‘We still want to cooperate.

Please come sit down with us and let’s work this out.’ But they didn’t.”

Walker decided to air his grievances over the so-called Wall of Shame during a Board of Supervisors meeting’s call to the audience on Sept. 15. Within moments, the owner was asked to leave the podium by Supervisor Ramon Valadez after he began his comments to the board by reading obscenity-laced threats he claims he received from members of the community.

When he refused, he was removed by the room by sheriff’s deputies and cited for disorderly conduct.

Soon after, the county sent a letter notifying the owners that the business could be fined $1,000 a day and $10,000 per violation if they did not comply by Sept. 21. Health inspectors did a follow-up inspection and the shop failed yet again.

Instead of fining Viva, the county gave the Walkers another shot to take corrective action and be in compliance with the temporary regulations. They even let Viva schedule when inspectors would return.

The owners responded on Oct. 4 saying they were ready.

Viva Coffee House’s food service permit was suspended on Oct. 5 after the health inspector observed the shop’s only employee on duty not wearing a mask while serving customers during the scheduled follow-up inspection.

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ARTS & CULTURE Arizona Biennial 2020 Tucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Ave. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday to Sunday through Jan. 10 Visitors must reserve timed tickets ahead of time on the museum website. Masks and social distancing are also required.

Tickets are $12 for adults, seniors 65 and up $10; $7 for students, free for children 12 and under, members and under 12, veterans and military. tucsonmuseumofart.org; 624-2333

Not surprisingly, in a contentious year in which 215,000 Americans have died “The Same Restless Energy, Mischief,” 2020, by Kareem-Anthony Ferreira, is on display at the Tucson Museum of Art. from an uncontrolled virus, when police killings of Black people have triggered outrage and protests around the country, paintings at the Tucson Museum of Art in the show is a cavalcade of art genres. and when desperate migrants and asylum the “Arizona Biennial 2020.” Given pride Among the abstract works, Katherine seekers have been treated cruelly and of place at the entrance to the big show, Monaghan’s elegant rust and acrylic on often illegally, there’s a lot of political art Arizona Biennial returns to his work, “The Same Restless Energy, paper stand out, and so does Tucson’s on view.

Mischief,” 2020, huge at 5 ½ feet high Jeff rey Jonczyk’s “Wine” acrylic on wood.

Tucson Museum of Art The Border Patrol, and the entire and more than 11 feet wide, is as grand as A super realistic painter, S. Jordan Trumpian immigration regime, come in any 19th-century painting of royalty or Palmer of Prescott, teases our town in

By Margaret Regan for well deserved criticism. Two artists shipwrecked sailors. His figures, loosely an oil on canvas slyly named “I Dream tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com made sculptural works evoking the painted in rich colors, are lionized by the of Tucson.” The beautifully painted infamous kids in cages, the thousands of magisterial canvas. Clearly, their lives work pictures the Old Pueblo at its most BACK IN THE SPRING, migrant children, including babies, who matter. poverty-stricken: it pictures an ugly old Kareem-Anthony Ferreira prepared an were ripped out of their parents’ arms by In the painting, a trio of Black adults, mattress jammed into a dumpster. NevBorder Patrol. (“We need to take away array of large-scale paintings to present two of them dressed in the brightly patertheless, says Dr. Julie Sasse, the musethe children,” Jeff Session, then the U.S. in the MFA show at the University of terned clothes of the Caribbean, are hang- um’s chief curator, it is museum patrons’ Attorney General, told prosecutors in Arizona. ing out on a bench in a park shimmering favorite piece in the show.

2018, according to a preliminary report by The canvases, lush and gorgeous, porwith green grass. Beside them a restless In the category of unusual media, the Justice Departments’ own inspector tray the members of his extended family, little girl squirms in her chair, eager to Jessica James Lansdon has laid a degeneral.)

Trinidadians who immigrated to Canabe on her way. And in a second, attached lightful table of small shapes made with Nathaniel Lewis, from Phoenix, reda and their first-generation Canadian panel, another young girl is galloping on clay, salt dough and “slime,” and arranged offspring. The young Black artist, born in a stationary play horse, itching to ride off them strictly by their twinkly colors, pink, sponded to this travesty by creating Ontario, grew up in these dual cultures. In into her life. blue-green, yellow and white. Jo Andersen “Detention,” a cage that looks a little like his art he aims to make a “visual re-creThe Biennial, an every-other-year juried used “roadkill snakeskin” and paper made a child’s playpen, with bars cheerfully painted bright red, yellow and green. But ation of both identities” and to skewer show of Arizona artists, was delayed by from desert plants to create a 3D “Book the space is covered in wire, and a small stereotypes about Caribbean “island life.” COVID-19 but TMA was adamant that of Snakes.” Nick Georgiou puts nine child is trapped inside, sitting numbly on His big works, a mix of oil paint, wax the show go on, with health protocols in gloriously colored heads on his “Credia stool, its face pale and empty. crayon and collage, were to be hung at the place. This year’s guest curator, Joe Baker, bility Bookshelf.” The picturesque heads In “Hope Confined, Dignity SupUA Museum of Art in the spring, alonga Native artist who directs the Mashanare cleverly crafted from the pages of old pressed,” Tucson artist Perla Segovia side art by some 10 fellow MFA grads. tucket Pequot Museum in Connecticut, books. made a wiry cage; tiny shoes lie on floor.

Then, of course, the coronavirus hit. The winnowed the 1,351 entries down to 88.

Julia Arriola laments the murders of She also embroidered a toothbrush and planned in-person show was reduced to Tucson artists made a good showing, Native women in an installation of tribal soap, hygiene items that a Justice Dean online exhibition, and I got my first as usual, and there’s a robust variety of dresses. Mia B. Adams made a challengpartment lawyer argued in court were look at Ferreira’s epic works by squinting voices—from Black and Native, to Latinx ing video in which she makes a layered not essential for incarcerated children in into my tiny laptop. and White. cake of the troubled U.S, complete with crowded Border Patrol prisons.

Months later, in early October, I was It’s a pure delight to see art in person, icing. Her title? “Freedom Has Never (The judges were appalled.) elated to find one of Ferreira’s exhilarating after months of virtual exhibitions, and Tasted So Good.”

STATE OF THE ART

MELODRAMATIC MOMENTS Scenes of joy at the Gaslight Theatre

By Emily Dieckman emily@tucsonlocalmedia.com

country, he watched the Gaslight folks begin their porch concert series via Facebook, and missed performing there so much that he MOMENTS OF CAREFREE, came back for a visit. Mike Yarema, who’s silly joy are more valuable than toilet paper, been with the theater for over 20 years, these days. The Best of Gaslight Fall Revue treated us to a series of his classic, cringe-inis chock full of them. While the folks at the ducing jokes (“What do you say about a Gaslight haven’t been able to hold a show mummy joke that’s really bad? It sphinx!”) in their indoor theater venue on Broadway and a variety of numbers—including an Boulevard since March, their drive-up porch enticing performance as Doc Croc from the concerts throughout the summer were a de- Gaslight’s show Spider-Guy. Heather Stricklight. Order a pizza, a root beer float, or even er, who started with the theater back in 2000, some alcohol and sing and laugh along to a wears about a million different hats/wigs/ series of numbers that are almost impossioutfits in the show, and looks and sounds ble not to sing and laugh along to. (Bonus: great in all of them.

You can also leave your windows rolled up Take it from the group of kids in the and listen to the show through your radio, if parking space behind us dancing with you tune it to the right dial). ecstatic abandon to “Puttin’ on the Ritz”: If As the weather cools down (however you’re looking for a night of fun, an opportuslightly) the Gaslight has launched a special nity to support local art and a delicious slice fall edition of the show, featuring a series of pizza, you can get them all in one place at of community favorites from the past 42 this show. year, with an emphasis on spooky numThe Best of Gaslight Fall Revue takes bers and silly costumes. We’re talking the place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Saturday and “Time Warp,” “The Monster Mash” and “I Sunday nights through Sunday, Oct. 25.

Put a Spell on You,” of course, but also fun The theater is located at 7010 E. Broadway renditions of tunes like “Girls Just Wanna Blvd. Pizza and popcorn packages are Have Fun,” “Secret Agent Man” and “Silly available at the time of reservation, and Love Songs.” additional menu items are available at It’s really something special to watch the the show. You’re welcome to bring chairs Gaslight crew perform, because you can tell and set up outside your car, but be sure how much they all love what they do. David to maintain social distancing and wear a Fanning, who has been with the theater for mask when interacting with your servers.

27 years, now lives in New York. When the Bathrooms are available, and will be sanipandemic shut down venues across the tized after each use. $40 per car. ■

STATE OF THE ART Another Segovia work, “Immigrants’ Void,” 2018, a watercolor on embroidered canvas, is a portrait of a family separated from two daughters. The missing girls, colorless, hover like ghosts among their loved ones.

Nogales native Steffi Faircloth, a young artist now living in Tempe, made a video of a creepy agent making a car stop. Alex Turner, of Tucson, photographed a darkened desert trail, where terrified migrants and asylum seekers may well lose their lives. (Migrant deaths have skyrocketed in this year’s brutal summer. The toll for 2020, from January to Sept. 30, is 181 deaths, a big jump over last year’s 144 deaths at this time of year.)

No wonder Mia B. Adams made that

angry cake. And no wonder Paul Abbott, a mild-mannered English transplant who lives in Arizona’s Skull Valley, painted a giant angry guy in “Useless Wall,” a big beautiful classic oil on canvas. The guy, perhaps incensed by the government’s billion-dollar project to destroy some of Arizona’s most beloved wild sites with a monster border wall, just stands up and screams. What else can he do?

But art does offer comforts. “Memory and Loss,” from Olin Perkins, born in Sacaton, in the Gila River Indian Community, is a meditative head, carved from wood and painted in oils. This traditionally inspired work reminds us that life has always been hard, filled with losses, but the memories of those who fought for justice can embolden us to act. ■

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FC Tucson vs. Orlando City B Watch Party.

Do you miss watching your local sports teams play games live? While we’re not quite to a point where you can watch FC Tucson play at Kino Sports Complex, they’ve put together this neat alternative instead: This Saturday, head over to the downtown watch party at El Toro Flicks Carpool Cinema to watch in a physically-distanced fashion. Gates open at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17 El Toro Flicks, 198 S. Granada Ave. Tickets for a single game start at $15 for a single ticket and go up to $50 for a car with 6 or more passengers. You can also get flex pack tickets to see multiple games.

Archery at Tanque Verde Ranch. Looking to take a safe staycation AND pick up a new hobby? Tanque Verde Ranch may be just the ticket. Their archery station, just north of the main office, has lanes ranging from 10 yards to 50 yards in length, making it a great place to learn and then work your way up. Equipment is provided and safety rules are outlined carefully. Even if you don’t quite hit the bullseye, you’ll definitely challenge yourself, get in a bit of an arm workout, and feel incredibly cool. Tanque Verde Ranch, 14301 E. Speedway.

Love Letters. The latest show at Live Theatre Workshop is the feel-good story of hope that we all need right now. It tells the story of Andy Ladd and Melissa Gardner, childhood friends whose birthday party thank-you notes and postcards from summer camp evolve into love letters exchanged over the course of their lives. Though physically apart, their true love keeps them close, and who’s cutting onions in here anyway? This reimagined production features Rhonda Hallquist and Carlisle Ellis, and will be done as a staged reading at their outdoor drive-in stage. Enjoy from your car, tuned into the LTW radio station, or bring chairs and masks to tailgate.

Enjoy pre-ordered snacks too! 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 5 p.m. on Sundays through Nov. 1. (No show on Halloween). 3322 E. Fort Lowell Road. $25 per car.

Live Theatre Workshop Adult Classes.

Have you been watching the people around you pick up new hobbies left and right during this pandemic, but haven’t found your niche yet? Or maybe you did improv or musical theatre in college but haven’t explored it since?

These classes at LTW might be for you. The improv class, geared toward all levels (18+), is 6 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays from Oct. 20 to Dec. 15. Tuition is $125. The Musical Theatre Happy Hour class will go over classic an new musical theatre show songs, help students practice vocal techniques, and eventually give everyone a chance to perform. The 21+ class is 6 to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays from Oct. 21 to Dec. 16. Tuition is $130.

Virtual Magic Show with John Shryock.

John Shryock has performed in more than 100 cities, for sold out crowds at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, Caesars Palace in Las

Working From Home: New Commissions From Tucson. MOCA has reopened, with lots of

new adjustments and precautions, including requiring facial coverings and social distancing, operating at 50 percent capacity, and more. This exhibit features work from five artists and two poets who currently or recently live, work or quarantine in the area. The fact that there are artists who are taking everything 2020 has thrown at us and making it into art sure does give us hope. And that’s what this exhibit is designed to do: Support creators and underscore the essential work artists and poets do, especially in moments of crisis. MOCA hours are noon to 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. 265, S. Church Ave. Free admission throughout the fall!

Best of the Gaslight Fall Review. What better way to get into a spooky mood than by watching characters like the Phantom of the Opera, a mad scientist and the Sanderson sisters singing their hearts out at the Gaslight Theatre? Their fall revue, performed on the front porch of the theater while you sit back in your car and enjoy, is not to be missed. Order a pizza and a (truly enormous, like the size of a small child) bag of popcorn in advance along with your ticket, bring chairs to sit outside if you want and enjoy! The good tunes and bad jokes are fantastic way to spend an evening. 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday nights through Sunday, Oct. 25. Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. $40 per parking spot.

by Emily Dieckman Haunted Car Rides at Steam Pump Ranch.

Steam Pump Ranch is one of those places that can easily feel either very charming or very spooky, depending on the context. So it’s a perfect place to spend a Friday night in October.

At this event, you can listen to a series of scary stories via your smartphone to take a haunted road trip across the state! Make sure you register in advance, arrive at least five minutes early and come in at the Northern entrance! 7 to 9 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 16. Steam Pump Ranch, 10901 N. Oracle. Free.

Vegas and—now—your living room. This specially designed show is so you can enjoy the magic and comedy up close and personal.

It’s even interactive, so viewers can comment and participate in the fun. But, unlike traditional magic shows, you don’t have to deal with the lingering terror in the back of your mind that you might be called up onstage to participate in front of an audience. The show is hosted through the Gaslight Theatre, so it’s also a great way to support a local favorite. 6 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17. $25 per view. (The whole family can share one view!)

Benjamin Scheuer: In Concert From London. Have you ever heard of Benjamin Scheuer? He’s the type of person whose name might be rattling around in your head for any number of reasons. Maybe you’ve heard of The Lion, his Drama Desk Award winning musical? Or it might be his children’s books, Hundred Feet Tall and Hibernate With Me, that you’re thinking of. Or maybe you’ve heard his song “I Am Samantha,” inspired by a friend’s transition to becoming a woman (the music video was directed by by T. Cooper, who is transgender, and features a cast of 27 transgender individuals!) Anyway, he’s performing a concert—one of the first in-person concerts in London since everything shut down earlier this year—which will be livestreamed through Arizona Theatre Company.

The free event is available to ATC subscribers on Thursday, Oct. 15 and the general public on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Lit Up: Traditional Artists on Public Walls.

As part of the Tucson Meet Yourself festival, sites throughout town will be projecting video footage of traditional artists onto outside walls. We’re talking Japanese traditional dancers, Polish folk dancers, Henna tattoo artists and more! Just drive up and enjoy these beautiful movers and makers. This week, you can catch the projections at Winterhaven Square (at Fort Lowell and Country Club), Tucson City Court (at Toole and Sixth Ave.) and Kent’s Tools (2745 N. First Ave, north of Glenn). Shows start at dusk and go until 10 p.m.

Lore SHOW at &gallery. This Fourth Avenue art space likes to call itself “an art gallery for weirdos.” In this creative, mildly spooky show during October, they’ll be featuring art from more than 20 local artists, all inspired by folklore and scary stories from the artists’ cultures! The primarily BIPOC artists have created art with stories from Latin culture like La Llorona, Dubby stories from Jamaica, Cryptids from American folklore and much more. They’ll only be allowing 20 people in the gallery at a time to maintain social distancing, so they recommend buying your ticket in advance. Regular tickets are $5, but on Saturdays at 8 p.m., they have a special haunted house showtime, with performances and creepy stagings, for $15. & gallery, 419 N. Fourth Ave.

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Medical Marijuana

IT’S HIGH TIME

Prop 207 would legalize adult use of recreational weed. Here’s how it would work.

By David Abbott david@tucsonlocalmedia.com WEED IS ON THE BALLOT once again in Arizona, but as with most things involving money and bureaucracy, there are those in the cannabis industry who think this is the wrong bill.

For the second time in four years, Arizona voters have the opportunity to legalize marijuana for recreational use through the Smart and Safe Arizona Act—Proposition 207—on next month’s ballot.

The citizen-initiated measure would tax and regulate cannabis, making possession of up to an ounce legal for persons over the age of 21.

It would also allow adults to grow up to six plants and possess up to five grams of concentrates. Edibles would be restricted to 10mg THC per piece and 100mg per bag with no animal or fruit shapes that appeal to children.

It would also allow expungement of convictions for some marijuana-related crimes, beginning in July 2021.

Under the current system, those holding MMJ certifications can possess up to 2.5 ounces of leaf and unlimited edibles with no limit on THC content. They can also grow up to 12 plants if they live more than 25 miles from the nearest dispensary.

That system would remain in place for cardholders should voters pass Prop 207.

The Arizona Department of Health Services would be the lead agency to oversee

creation of regulations for recreational use in an industry that would bring an estimated $250 million annually into state coffers via a 16 percent excise tax.

A Smart and Safe Fund would be established to collect taxes, fees and fines for program administration and dispersal to enforcement, education and social programs. That fund would be kickstarted with $45 million from the existing Medical Marijuana Fund that currently has $68 million and is expected to grow to $91 million by the end of next year.

Both the medical and recreational marijuana programs would be regulated by the AZDHS, which is also tasked with writing the rules should the measure pass.

“The reason we asked DHS is because they have spent the last decade establishing a program for the medical marijuana program,” said Roopali H. Desai, a partner at Coppersmith Brockelman, a Phoenix-based law firm that was primary author of the initiative. “Many of the people who will be applying for and ultimately obtaining an adult-use license are people who have currently been regulated by the DHS under the medical program. We didn’t want to reinvent the wheel.”

Desai added that it is common for rules to be written after a ballot initiative has passed and that Prop 207 is written to provide guidance to the agency charged with writing regulations.

“We don’t want to proscribe every little detail,” she said. “We understand that things change.”

As of Sept. 1, 2020, there were a total of 130 registered nonprofit medical marijuana dispensaries, with 123 facilities operating throughout the state.

Should Smart and Safe pass, current pharmacy owners in counties with fewer than two licensed dispensaries would be first in line to get retail permits as part of an “early applicant” dual-licensing program.

An additional 26 licenses would be created to implement a Social Equity Ownership Program to “promote the ownership and operation of marijuana establishments and marijuana testing facilities by individuals from communities disproportionately impacted by the enforcement of previous marijuana laws.”

“There are really very few states that have done this right and it required a lot of research and time so that we do not end up tokenizing minorities,” Desai said.

“The big, white investor guys go find some token African-American applicants and put them on the papers and then they end up making all the money, owning all the equity. We needed to create a social equity program that is real.”

Resources would also be focused on poorer rural communities because “the research shows that if people have access to cannabis to deal with their pain, to deal with their depression, they tend to not then turn to opioids, which are much more addictive and cause much more significant health problems,” she said.

Those communities would also have control over local regulations in line with existing MMJ rules. Under Prop 207, cities, towns and counties would be allowed to enact rules to govern marijuana within their jurisdictions, such as prohibiting marijuana establishments; limiting the number of marijuana establishments; prohibiting delivery of product and any other “reasonable zoning regulations that limit the use of land” for marijuana establishments to specified areas.

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lations more stringent than existing rules for the state’s MMJ program.

As to expungement, the bill would provide a pathway for an estimated 200,000 people charged with felonies for low-level marijuana use to have those charges expunged.

Individuals would have to petition courts for the expungement of their criminal record, but there is some funding dedicated to enacting that part of the program. Eligible convictions would include possession, consumption, or transportation of 2.5 ounces or less of marijuana or 12.5 grams or less of marijuana concentrate; possession, consumption, cultivation or processing of not more than six marijuana plants at an individual’s residence for personal use; possession, use, or transportation of paraphernalia related to marijuana cultivation, manufacturing, processing or consumption.

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“We don’t want to proscribe every little detail,” said Roopali H. Desai, whose law firm crafted the initiative.

BUT NOT EVERYONE IS HAPPY with the way Smart and Safe is written.

Kim A. Williams, who co-owns Tucson’s Tumbleweeds Health Center with Dana Rae Zygmunt, says she’s “not a fan” of Prop 207.

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even finished,” Williams said Tumbleweeds devotes an entire section of its website to describing the advantages cardholders have over potential recreational users, both legally and in the marketplace.

From gun rights to workplace protections to the amount of taxes levied, Williams says the laws favor those with certifications.

Further, she thinks the rules are written to favor a handful of powerful insiders, leaving newcomers and those with fewer resources out of the business, and that punishment for breaking the rules can still ruin the lives of people in underserved communities.

“Even petty offenses or a misdemeanor can have a negative impact on someone’s life,” she said. “It needs to be really legal.

When you introduce fines and penalties, it’s not legalization.”

Tucson cannabis doctor Heather Moroso echoes Williams’ concerns, particularly concerning what she calls a “monopoly on ownership” and the penalties that may be faced by home growers.

“It’s a replica of the 2016 initiative with

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Tumbleweeds Health Center owners Dana Rae Zygmunt and Kim A. Williams (right)

prettier language,” she said. “I think it didn’t pass in 2016 because of the intelligent voter. They found out what’s in it and rejected it.”

Prop 207 is the result of nearly a quarter-century of loosening cannabis rulings in the state of Arizona.

In 1996, Arizona’s Prop 200 allowed doctors to prescribe controlled sub-

stances in the wake of California passing medical cannabis laws in 1995. Prop 200 passed with an overwhelming majority, 65.4 percent to 34.6 percent—872,235 votes to 461,332.

Prop 205, the Taxation and Regulation of Marijuana Act—Prop 207’s 2016 predecessor—would have created the Department of Marijuana Licenses and Control, with a director appointed by the governor.

That measure lost in 2016 by 67,021 votes as 51.32 percent voted against with 1,300,344 votes and 1,233,323 voted in favor, or 48.68 percent.

The current medical marijuana laws were passed in 2010 with Prop 203.

Recent polling shows that citizens of Arizona are ready to legalize weed, regardless of the minutiae of the measure. Strategies 360, the advocacy group working to get Smart and Safe passed, conducted a poll of 800 likely voters showing 57 percent to 38 percent in favor of the proposition. A recent Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll showed support for 207 at 45.6 percent versus 34.2 percent opposed, with about 19 percent of voters undecided, although other polls show the margins getting closer as voting is already underway. ■

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY HOROSCOPE 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700 $1.99 per minute. 18 and over. Touchtone phone required.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Would you be willing to meditate on how you might become more skilled in the arts of intimacy? Would you consider reading books and websites that offer guidance about strategies for being the best partner and ally you can be? Are you receptive to becoming more devoted to practicing empathy and deep listening?

I’m not saying you’re deficient in these matters, nor am I implying that you need to improve your mastery of them any more than the rest of us. I simply want you to know that now is an especially favorable time for you to make progress.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Entre chien et loup is a French idiom that literally means “between dog and wolf.” It’s used to describe twilight or dusk, when the light is faint and it’s tough to distinguish between a dog and a wolf. But it may also suggest a situation that is a blend of the familiar and the unknown, or even a moment when what’s ordinary and routine is becoming unruly or wild. Entre chien et loup suggests an intermediary state that’s unpredictable or beyond our ability to define. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose you regard it as one of your main themes for now.

Don’t fight it; enjoy it! Thrive on it!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): For 34 years, the beloved American TV personality Mr. Rogers did a show for children. He’s now widely acknowledged as having been a powerful teacher of goodness and morality. Here’s a fun fact: His actual middle name was “McFeely.” I propose that you use that as a nickname for yourself. If McFeely doesn’t quite appeal to you, maybe try “Feel Maestro” or “Emotion Adept” or “Sensitivity Genius.” Doing so might help inspire you to fulfill your astrological assignment in the coming weeks, which is to allow yourself to experience more deep feelings than usual—and thereby enhance your heart intelligence. That’s crucial! In the coming weeks, your head intelligence needs your heart intelligence to

be working at peak capacity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A blogger named Dr.LoveLlama writes, “You may think I am walking around the house with a blanket around my shoulders because I am cold, but in fact the ‘blanket’ is my cloak and I am on a fantasy adventure.” I approve of such behavior during our ongoing struggles with COVID-19, and I especially recommend it to you in the coming days. You’ll be wise to supercharge your imagination, giving it permission to dream up heroic adventures and epic exploits that you may or may not actually undertake someday. It’s time to become braver and more playful in the inner realms.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to author Rev. Dr. Marilyn Sewell, “The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth.” I recommend that you meditate on that perspective. Make it your keynote.

Your physical organism always has wisdom to impart, and you can always benefit from tuning in to it—and that’s especially important for you right now. So let me ask you: How much skill do you have in listening to what your body tells you? How receptive are you to its unique and sometimes subtle forms of expression? I hope you’ll enhance your ability to commune with it during the next four weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In his fictional memoir Running in the Family, Virgo author Michael Ondaatje returns to Sri Lanka, the land where he spent his childhood, after many years away. At one point he enthuses that he would sometimes wake up in the morning and “just smell things for the whole day.” I’d love for you to try a similar experiment, Virgo: Treat yourself to a festival of aromas.

Give yourself freely to consorting with the sensual joy of the world’s many scents. Does that sound frivolous? I don’t think it is. I believe it would have

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By Dan Savage, mail@savagelove.net

My husband recently passed away. He was a wonderful person and we had 12 great years together. He was also very, very organized. His death was an accident but everything was in order. He even left a note in a sealed envelope for his lawyer to present to me. It was one last love letter, Dan. Our relationship wasn’t perfect, no relationship is, but that’s who he was. Or that’s who I thought he was.

My husband was a very good-looking man who took meticulous care of his body.

We actually met in a gym at a hotel. He wasn’t conceited, which I think may be because he didn’t come into his looks until he was in his 20s, but he enjoyed the effect his appearance had on others. In addition to his last love letter and other documents,

I was given a list with the passwords to my husband’s social media accounts. I made the mistake of looking at his messages on Instagram. He exchanged private images with hundreds of women and gay men all over the world. Not just photos of him shirtless. Photos of him fully nude from the front and back, images of his genitals, even video clips of him masturbating with his face clearly visible.

I knew he had exhibitionistic tendencies.

Years before we met he got in legal trouble for exposing himself in a public place. He sought help for impulse control and never did something like that again. But he always had a very high libido, much higher than mine, and he masturbated frequently, and public sex remained his biggest fan-

a deeply calming and grounding effect on you. It would anchor you more thoroughly in the here and now of your actual life, and inspire you to shed any fantasies that you should be different from who you are.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself,” says Libran journalist Barbara Walters. Really? I don’t think so. In my experience, the hardest thing to do is to consistently treat ourselves with the loving care we need to be mentally and physically healthy. But I do acknowledge that trusting ourselves is also an iffy task for many of us. And yet that’s often because we don’t habitually give ourselves the loving care we need to be healthy. How can we trust ourselves if we don’t put in the work necessary to ensure our vitality? But here’s the good news, Libra: In the coming weeks, you’re likely to be extra motivated and intuitively astute whenever you improve the way you nurture yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “You can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room,” writes author Barbara Kingsolver. That’s a useful message for you right now. Why? Because you will soon be exposed to teachings that could change your life for the better.

And if you hope to be fully available for those teachings, you must be extra receptive and curious and open-minded—which means you shouldn’t try to seem like you already know everything you need to know.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’ve decided not to use quotes by famous writers who’ve endorsed bigoted ideas. In the future, my horoscopes won’t mention the work of T. S. Eliot, Roald Dahl, V. S. Naipaul, Edith Wharton, Kingsley Amis, H. P. Lovecraft, Flannery O’Connor, Rudyard Kipling, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine. I’m sorry to see them go, because I’ve learned a lot from some of them.

And I understand that many were reflecting attitudes that were widespread in their era and milieu.

But as I’ve deepened my commitment to fighting prejudice, I’ve come to the conclusion that I personally don’t want to engage with past perpetra-

tasy. I didn’t judge or shame him for any of that. We jokingly called masturbation “his thang” and sex, which we had roughly once a week, “our thang,” and one time, when it seemed safe, we did manage to have sex in public. He expressed an interest in opening up our relationship years ago but I am monogamous by nature and he agreed to keep our relationship closed. And I believe he did: I’ve read through all his messages with these strangers and there are no mentions of any meetings. I’ve seen dozens of messages from people wanted to meet in person and he always turned them down. But he never turned down a request for more photos.

Help me understand this. I can’t tell anyone else about this and I hate sitting here feeling like my marriage was a lie.

—Wishing Instagram Didn’t Open Window P.S. Also, men? My husband was straight.

Why was he sending photos to gay men?

tors. Now, in accordance with current astrological omens, I invite you to take an inventory of your own relationship with bigoted influences—and consider making some shifts in your behavior. (More info: tinyurl.com/BigotedAuthors1 and tinyurl. com/BigotedAuthors2) CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn chemist Tu YouYou doesn’t have a medical degree or PhD. Yet she discovered a treatment for malaria that has saved millions of lives. The drug was derived from an ancient herbal medicine that she spent years tracking down. In part because of her lack of credentials, she remained virtually unsung from the time she helped come up with the cure in 1977 until she won a Nobel Prize in 2015. What’s most unsung about your accomplishments, Capricorn?

There’s a much better chance than usual that it will finally be appreciated in the coming months.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting,” says author Gregory David Roberts. If that’s true, I expect that a surge of luck will flow your way soon.

According to my astrological analysis, fate has grown impatient waiting for you to take the actions that would launch your life story’s next chapter.

Hopefully, a series of propitious flukes will precipitate the postponed but necessary transformations.

My advice? Don’t question the unexpected perks.

Don’t get in their way. Allow them to work their magic.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Have you formulated wily plans and crafty maneuvers to help you navigate through the labyrinthine tests and trials up ahead? I hope so. If you hope to solve the dicey riddles and elude the deceptive temptations, you’ll need to use one of your best old tricks—and come up with a new trick, as well. But please keep this important caveat in mind: To succeed, you won’t necessarily have to break the rules. It may be sufficient merely to make the rules more supple and flexible. ■ Homework: What belief would you be willing to change your mind about if offered convincing counter-evidence? FreeWillAstrology.com.

I am so sorry for your loss, WIDOW, and I’m so sorry your grief has been complicated by what you found in your husband’s Instagram account. But you shouldn’t for a moment doubt the love of a man who wanted to make sure you got one last love letter if he should die unexpectedly. That’s not something a person would think to do for someone they didn’t truly love. Your husband was who you thought he was. Your marriage wasn’t a lie and your husband wasn’t a liar, WIDOW, it’s just that your grief—like you and your husband and your marriage and anything human beings do or feel or touch—is imperfect.

So far as you know, WIDOW, your husband never cheated on you—and after reading thousands of his DMs, and since your husband didn’t think you would ever see those DMs, it’s safe to say you know everything. And what you know now that you didn’t know before is that sharing

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pictures with strangers was one of your husband’s “thangs.”

Now I’m going to ask you to make a leap, WIDOW. Instead of seeing what you found on Instagram as evidence of your husband’s unfaithfulness, WIDOW, try to see it as something that made it possible for a man like your husband to remain faithful.

Think of those DMs like a pressure-release valve. On Instagram your husband could expose himself to strangers who wanted to see him naked—avoiding both consent violations and legal trouble—without exposing himself to the temptations of face-to-face encounters, WIDOW, temptations that might’ve led him to violate the monogamous commitment he made to you and, like all people who make monogamous commitments, sometimes struggled to keep.

One person can’t be all things to another person sexually. People can ask for monogamous commitments, of course, and we all have a right to expect consideration and compassion from our partners— and not having the needs we can’t meet or the ways we fall short thrown in our faces is one way our partners demonstrate consideration and compassion. Your husband needed more attention than any one person could ever provide. He didn’t rub that in your face. He cut an ethical corner by swapping DMs with strangers to meet a need you couldn’t—but if getting that need met the way he did made it possible for him to stay in your marriage and stay faithful to you, perhaps you benefited too.

And while your husband should’ve asked for your permission—while he should’ve gotten your okay—if you had found his

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They also gave the owners new signage to help Viva quickly reopen. Once Walker submitted proof that face shields were purchased and the signs were hung up, the county lifted Viva’s suspension and the coffee shop was back to business by the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 9.

Loni Anderson, director of Consumer Health and Food Safety for Pima County, said this is the shop’s last chance. Anything less than continued compliance will cost Viva its food service permit, according to Anderson.

“We will still be verifying onsight,” Anderson said. “If we see any additional complaints at that point and if they’re out of compliance, that would lead to the legal

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last four years tongue-bathing the balls of a man who has cheated on every wife he’s ever had and been credibly accused of sexual assault by two dozen women.

By association and proximity, Tillis has a far more scandalous record. But whoever wins the senate election in North Carolina, there’s not enough mouth wash in the world to get the stench of Trump’s taint off Tillis’s breath.

DMs while he was alive, WIDOW, he would no doubt ask for your forgiveness.

Think of the years he gave you and the love he showed you and ask yourself if you could give him the forgiveness he would be asking for if he could. Then give him— give yourself—that gift.

P.S. Your husband’s willingness to accept attention from gay men is another sign he was ones of the good guys.

Straight guys who are secure in their sexuality are much more willing to accept compliments from gay men these days— some straight guys, like your husband, even seek them out.

P.P.S. I am, again, so very sorry for your loss.

Cunningham—that Cunningham had, in fact, exchanged “sexts” with a woman who is not his wife. I braced for dick pics or kink revelations or worse when I clicked through to the website that broke the story. At the very least I expected explicit references to sex. But nope! We’re being told to clutch our pearls—and to vote for Tillis—over some text G-rated messages about “lots of kissing” and a vague wish to spend a night together. I guess these laughably tame exchanges round up to salacious because both parties are married to other people. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad and if it wasn’t threatening the Democrats’ efforts to retake the Senate.

—Voter In North Carolina Enraged

I live in North Carolina. One of our two senators, Thom Tillis, is a Republican who tested positive for COVID-19 after cavorting with the president at the White House. But when I opened the local paper, lo and behold, the top story wasn’t the ill Tillis but the admission by his Democratic opponent in the senatorial race—Cal

So the worry here is that the people of North Carolina are going to vote for a U.S. senator who can’t open his mouth without Donald Trump’s nutsack falling out—Senator Thom Tillis—over Cal Cunningham because Cunningham sent a few not-thatdirty text messages to a woman who isn’t his wife. Sigh. Tillis has literally spent the

steps to remove their permit.”

Anderson’s department oversees the food service permits for more than 4,000 restaurants in Pima County. Out of that number, only a handful restaurants have found themselves on the wrong side of the county’s temporary regulations and even fewer have been repeat offenders, she said.

She also said the so-called Wall of Shame is intended “for the public to be aware of places not in line with the resolution.” It’s a tool for the public to gauge where they want to consume food, she said.

“We understand there’s some concerns but (businesses) are also afforded the opportunity to correct and be removed from it, as well,” Anderson said. “Even before COVID-19, failed health inspections would be posted on media sites. It’s the same

thing.”

But what really baffles the director about the situation is how easy it would have been for the coffee shop to stay in compliance and avoid all this trouble. Unlike restaurants that have been shut down in the past for costly issues like equipment failure or structural issues, Viva’s troubles with the county were relatively cheap to fix in comparison.

“Technically, the items we’re asking are easy to do in terms of any compliance,” Anderson said. “This is easier in terms of providing a mask or face shield than a situation related to equipment to comply with the requirements.”

Walker claims his inability to comply with the mask order doesn’t have any political connotations.

However, his shop seems to be catering

I sent you a letter yesterday. Today I told my husband I want a divorce. So I didn’t need any advice from you after all.

Once I laid it out in my letter to you and thought about the last three years and the amount of struggling with this I have gone through, I realized that it was SO. DAMN. OBVIOUS. There was no question. There was only an answer. Divorce. It has been horrible the last couple days but things are starting to feel a bit better. The worst part is the intense pain that I have caused him.

He loves me so much and it is painful to tell him that I do not love him the same way.

But I am holding tight to my firm belief that in a few years, he will understand that I did this out of love—for him and for me. Thank you. Even though you did not need to respond, just being there to write to helped.

—Writing Was Enough I’m happy it helped just to write the letter, WWE, and I read your letter and I agree: you’re doing the right thing for yourself and your husband. Best of luck to you both. ■ mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage www.savagelovecast.com to a certain demographic after changing their logo to incorporate the American flag last month and hosting a large party of Trump supporters on Friday, Oct. 2, who flaunted their opposition to wearing masks with Walker himself in a YouTube video. Walker said the group only gave the shop a day’s notice before their arrival and that wasn’t enough time to implement social distancing protocols.

Viva’s first weekend back in business seemed to be a great success according to a Sunday, Oct. 11 Facebook post featuring notorious alt-right meme Pepe the Frog as their salesperson of the month and boasting business is up over 87.5 percent.

“When you’re in business, you don’t want to alienate business or any of your customer base,” Walker said. “I don’t see the mask as political.” ■

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