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the riot act Gov. Doug Ducey Enacts Curfew After Protests Spiral out of Control By Austin Counts THE SKINNY: McSally’s Tailspin

CURRENTS: Back To School Plans

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Southern Arizona

COVID-19

By Jim Nintzel jimn@tucsonlocalmedia.com

THE LOCAL NUMBERS: The number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Arizona topped 21,000 as of Tuesday, June 2, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. Pima County had seen 2,496 of the state’s 21,250 confirmed cases. COVID-19 had killed 941 people statewide, including 191 in Pima County, according to the report. In Maricopa County, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases had risen to 10,536. Roughly two weeks after Gov. Doug Ducey lifted Arizona’s stay-at-home order, Arizona hospitals are seeing a rise in the number of people hospitalized with COVID symptoms, as well as more people visiting emergency rooms. The Arizona Department of Health Services reports that as of June 1, a record number of 1,009 Arizonans in the hospital had tested positive for COVID-19 or were suspected to have the virus. The report shows 569 people arrived at emergency rooms with COVID-like symptoms on June 1. THE NATIONAL NUMBERS: Nationwide, more than 1.79 million people had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, which had killed an estimated 104,450 people as of Tuesday, June 2, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins University. STAY-AT-HOME-AFTER-DARK ORDER: A protest against police violence turned violent in downtown Tucson on Friday night, when rioters smashed windows, painted graffiti and otherwise went wild in downtown Tucson. The protest was one of many across the country following the killing of George Floyd, who died in police custody after a Minneapolis Police Officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes as the black man gasped for air and said he couldn’t breathe. Following Friday’s riot, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus asked the public to not attend a Saturday protest. A few hundred people still turned out on Saturday night for a protest march that went smoothly until protestors attempted to march back downtown and clashed with police. Following a looting spree at Scottsdale’s Fashion

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Square on Saturday night, Gov. Doug Ducey declared a nightly curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. The curfew will continue through June 8 unless extended. During the curfew, members of the public are prohibited from “using, standing, sitting, traveling or being present on any public street or in any public place, including for the purpose of travel,” according to the Tucson Police Department. There are many exceptions, including police, firefighters, emergency responders, medical personnel, National Guard and members of the media. People are allowed to travel to and from work, make deliveries, get food, care for a family member, friend or animal, have dinner, get a drink at a bar or do almost anything other than protest or riot.

LET US OUT, WE’VE HAD ENOUGH: There’s a big partisan divide on whether the state is reopening too quickly, but most Arizonans are ready to get the hell out of their houses, according to a poll out last week. Roughly 41 percent of voters surveyed by political consulting firm HighGround say the state is moving “too fast” to reopen and get back to business. But roughly 39 percent say the reopening pace is “just about right.” Another 19 percent say they don’t know. Despite that split, the poll found most Arizonans are ready to resume at least some of their normal activities. Threefourths of those surveyed say they are at least probably ready to get back to hosting friends and family, 74 percent say they are probably ready to gather in groups of 10 or fewer, about two-thirds are probably ready to go shopping and nearly 60 percent are probably ready to go back to restaurants.

SPREADING THE WEALTH AROUND: The Tucson City Council approved a strategic plan this week to distribute $95.7 million from the federal CARES Act. Among the provisions, according to a city press release: $22 million in community aid including forgivable grants for small business and nonprofits, rental and utility assistance, funds for distance learning and wifi access, domestic violence prevention, childcare and food delivery for seniors; $38 million in funding for the continuity of city operations and services, including meeting the payroll needs of our first responders; and $33 million in reserves for Mayor and Council to assess future needs and allocate funds. HUNGRY FOR ANOTHER BITE AT THE APPLE: The Arizona Attorney General’s Office dismissed a complaint against the Pima County Board of Supervisors over regulations for restaurants on a legal technicality. The complaint was filed by Sen. Vince Leach and Reps. Mark Finchem and Bret Roberts after supervisors voted 3-2 to create new rules related to the “best practices” strategy developed by the county’s Back To Business Task Force. But the board later voted 3-2 to revise the rules, repealing the original proclamation that was the basis of the complaint. That rendered the complaint moot, according to the AG’s Office. The GOP lawmakers told the Green Valley News that they will file a new complaint regarding the revised regulations. ■ —Additional reporting from Kathleen B. Kunz, Austin Counts, Jeff Gardner, Logan Burtch-Buus and Tara Foulkrod

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CRASH AND BURN

Republican Martha McSally’s Senate campaign is in a tailspin MAY WAS A DISASTROUS MONTH for U.S. Sen. Martha McSally. You don’t have to take our word for it. Former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich said the same thing in a recent fundraising email for McSally: “This month has been a disaster, friend.” OK, OK. Gingrich probably didn’t say that. More likely, it was crafted by Team McSally as they try to figure out how to raise more money without triggering a fundraising surge for her Democratic opponent, former Navy captain and NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. (McSally herself helped fill Kelly’s coffers with her “liberal hack” comment to CNN’s Manu Raju, which resulted in a flood of money for Kelly back in January, as reported by the Arizona Republic’s Yvonne Wingett Sanchez.) It’s hard to find much good news for McSally in recent weeks. The headlines have been brutal. At the end of March, Kelly had $20 million in the bank, compared to her $10 million. Politico reported that President Donald Trump expressed concerns that McSally’s unpopularity in Arizona might be bringing him down in our state. While she’s made an effort to deliver supplies and otherwise get good press during the pandemic, McSally has continued to praise Trump’s incompetent handing of the outbreak. On top of that, McSally dismissed the real economic concerns of Arizona towns and cities by suggesting that further federal aid was just a way of bailing out corrupt Democratic cities like Chicago—and when those comments, made in an online town hall with Surprise Mayor Skip Rimsza, made headlines, McSally’s spokesperson suggested the statement wasn’t meant to be made public, as if that’s somehow helpful. Is it any surprise that two recent polls have shown McSally falling further behind Kelly, the husband of beloved for-

mer Southern Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords? First, there was the OH Predictive survey that showed Kelly with a 13-percentage-point lead. That was followed by a poll showing Kelly with a 10-percentage-point lead over McSally by one of the state’s most respected political consulting firms, HighGround Public Affairs Consultants. More than half of the voters surveyed, 51.3 percent, supported Kelly in the HighGround poll, while McSally had the support of just 41.3 percent. Those double-digit leads were wider than most of the earlier polling in the race, which suggested Kelly was leading by 4 to 6 percentage points. But one thing has been consistent: Kelly has led the race for months. At this point, the Real Clear Politics polling average shows Kelly’s lead at 9 percentage points. Given that HighGround’s poll showed Trump trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden by just 2 percentage points, maybe there’s something to Trump’s worry that McSally is dragging him down, contrary to conventional wisdom that McSally has damaged herself by slipping into Trump’s pocket. “Clearly, for the Arizona voter, Kelly is presenting himself as a better option than Biden, adopting the similar strategy which won Kyrsten Sinema her United States Senate seat in 2018 of avoiding the progressive partisan label that the Democratic Party’s nominee must shoulder,” said Coughlin, a onetime advisor to former Arizona governors Fife Symington and Jan Brewer. But polls are just snapshots in time. Sure, if the election were held today, Kelly would topple McSally, whose political career has hit a serious tailspin. But the election is still five months and tens of millions of dollars in campaign spending away. Speaking of that campaign spending: A few months back, McSally said she was praying for independent campaigns to come into Arizona to start muddying up the landscape—and it appears someone upstairs was listening. The

National Republican Senatorial Campaign launched a $5.7 million campaign in support of McSally this week with a TV ad accusing Kelly of being too close to China. As The Skinny reported a few weeks back, a GOP strategy memo warned candidates to avoid defending Trump and shift the blame to China. McSally has fully embraced the “blame China” approach, which is particularly useful in her campaign, as Kelly has had business dealings with Chinese companies in the past. (Of course, so has Trump and his family, but we’re sure McSally will be ignoring that little fact.) Coughlin warned that even though she’s trailing now, nobody should count McSally out.

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“Our survey released yesterday indicated that 20 percent of the electorate is blaming China for COVID-19 and 25 percent still doesn’t know or is blaming no one,” Coughlin said. “Given the recent attacks on Kelly’s business dealings, you can expect the Republican narrative to focus sharply on this issue in an attempt to link Kelly to China and undermine his performance in the dominant media markets of Maricopa and Pima County. McSally will clearly have to up her game with Republican and swing voters in Maricopa and greater Arizona in order to be successful, but as long as Trump is running a competitive race, you cannot count Senator McSally out.” ■

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On Saturday morning, people were cleaning up the streets of downtown Tucson.

DOWNTOWN TUCSON IS recovering from a weekend of violence and property damage after protests escalated into riots Friday and Saturday nights. Demonstrators took to the streets following the death of 46-year-old George Floyd, who was killed during an interaction with then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and others. Protests against police violence were also held in Phoenix, and in countries across the world. “What I saw was not Tucson and it’s not going to be what moves us forward,” said Mayor Regina Romero during a Saturday, May 30 press conference addressing Friday night’s actions. “Violence only brings violence. Harming local mom-and-pop businesses and inflicting harm does nothing to accomplish justice for Mr. Floyd.” Local businesses, banks, courthouses and the Tucson Police Department Headquarters were all targets of protesters’ rage during Friday night’s protest in downtown, which caused upwards of $200,000 in damage according to Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus. “We did our best to contain the problems that were occurring but recognizing in some cases we might have to put up with a certain amount of property damage so as to not risk the safety of our police officers or others in the community,” Magnus said. “As Chief, I can never justify compromising the safety when what we’re dealing with, at least to start, was property damage.”

LIGHTS OUT

Arizona under curfew order following protests in Phoenix and Tucson By Austin Counts austin@tucsonlocalmedia.com

Tucson Police estimate the protests drew about 350 to 400 people each night over the weekend. About 175 to 200 officers were deployed during Friday’s protest and “significantly more” helped out on Saturday night, Magnus said. Officers also made 12 arrests over the weekend, according to Magnus. The police chief believes much of the destruction came from agitators outside the Tucson community, he said during Saturday’s press conference. The department had worked with community leaders to facilitate a similar protest on Thursday night, Magnus said. Since Thursday’s protest was peaceful, Magnus said he did not anticipate there would be issues during Friday night’s protest. “We really did not anticipate further problems until it became clear that the character of the gathering was starting to change,” Magnus said. “We started to see people that frankly were not from Tucson and they made it clear they were not from Tucson. They started to create an entirely different climate in the hours that followed.” On Friday night, protesters smashed windows, started dumpster fires, and spray painted obscenities about law

enforcement on a destructive march as they headed toward TPD headquarters on Stone Avenue. The protest continued until roughly 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning. On Saturday night, TDP closed several main and side streets—including Congress Street and Broadway Boulevard— hoping to gain more control over the situation and not have a repeat of the previous night. While Saturday’s initial protest was peaceful, Magnus said the situation had become more belligerent by early Sunday morning. Protesters began to double back to the downtown area after Saturday night’s march had concluded. Officers tried to contain the situation as protesters attempted to cross downtown’s railroad track area but were met with hurled rocks, bricks, bottles of bodily fluids and Molotov cocktails, Magnus said. However, no officers were hospitalized for their injuries during the weekend’s melee. On Sunday morning, Gov. Doug Ducey announced a declaration of emergency including a curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. through Monday, June 8. The order does make exceptions for traveling to and from work, attending religious ceremonies, commercial trucking and delivery ser-

vices, purchasing food, caring for family members or animals, patronizing or operating local businesses, seeking medical aid or escaping dangerous circumstances. “This gives law enforcement an additional tool to prevent the lawlessness we’ve seen here and in cities nationwide,” Ducey said in a statement. “Police will be equipped to make arrests of individuals who are planning to riot, loot or cause damage and unrest. Today’s declaration also authorizes an expanded National Guard mobilization to protect life and property throughout the state. Our office will continue to communicate with local law enforcement to provide whatever resources we can.” Democratic State Rep. Charlene Fernandez (LD4) released a statement following Ducey’s announcement, citing “serious concerns” with the governor’s order but urging Arizona residents to comply. “It is important that this curfew not be used as a license to further escalate tensions, or for Arizonans around the state to have police called on them for malicious or dubious reasons,” Fernandez said in her statement. “We must not forget that these demonstrations are a justifiable show of solidarity and frustration over the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, unanswered questions surrounding the shooting death of Dion Johnson by an Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper, and to bring an end to racism and police brutality in our communities.” ■

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LOGAN BURTCH-BUUS

Students settling into the first day of classes in 2019 at Dove Mountain CSTEM K-8. Earlier this week, the Arizona Department of Education released a list of guidelines for how to best reopen schools.

LESSON PLANS

Public schools and the UA look to reopen in the fall

By Kathleen B. Kunz kathleen@tucsonlocalmedia.com

identification of essential functions and alternative options, a communications plan and a series of health recommendaLOCAL OFFICIALS ARE WORKING tions designed to assist administrators in making reopening decisions. to reopen both K-12 public schools and Some of those guidelines include the University of Arizona in August. student temperature screenings at home Earlier this week, the Arizona Deand on campus, physical distancing of partment of Education released a list desks and modified classroom layouts, of guidelines for how to best reopen staggered scheduling, enhanced cleaning schools. The 41-page guideline provides procedures and promoting the use of a series of recommendations for how cloth face coverings for any student over public, private and charter schools can the age of 2. approach the return of students, includ“Face coverings may be challenging for ing “adaptable considerations to meet students (especially younger students) to each community’s unique needs.” wear in all-day settings such as school,” The document was prepared after working with the Task Force for Reopen- the guidelines read. “Face coverings should be worn by staff and students ing Schools, which included local repre(particularly older students), as feasible, sentatives from Tucson, Flowing Wells, Sahuarita and Sunnyside school districts and are most essential in times when physical distancing is difficult. Individuand students from Mountain View, Canals should be frequently reminded not to yon del Oro and BASIS Oro Valley high touch the face covering and to wash their schools. “There are still many unknowns about hands frequently. Information should be the future of this virus and its impact on provided to staff, students, and students’ our state,” State Superintendent of Public families on proper use, removal, and washing of cloth face coverings.” Instruction Kathy Hoffman wrote in her The roadmap to reopening schools introductory message. “Still, the Arizoalso includes four potential scenarios na Department of Education remains committed to providing the field with as from which educators can structure their plans: All students in physical buildings much guidance, support, and clarity as from the start of the year, a mix of in-perpossible.” son and distance learning, beginning the The guidelines include an evaluation year distance learning with an option of the 2019-2020 school year closure,

to return to campus and intermittent distance learning throughout the school year. Superintendent Steve Holmes of the Sunnyside Unified School District said these guidelines fall in line with the guidance they have been receiving from the state department of education over the last month, along with a lot of the ideas produced by local and national superintendents about what schools could look like during COVID-19. He said equity, choice and safety are the three most important principles for reopening Sunnyside’s schools. The district plans to provide parents with different options for how their schools could operate. Sunnyside has the ability to put together a hybrid form of instruction because every student in grades 4 through 12 already has access to a personal laptop issued by the district. Holmes said they are prepared to continue remote learning if needed. However, the safety aspect of in-person instruction will be a little harder to navigate, Holmes said. He has received some concerns from teachers on how to implement safety precautions. “I think it’s easy for us to put desks six feet apart and facing forward,” Holmes said. “The hard part is, how do you manage that once kids are there, and particularly the younger students who learn much more socially and interact with one another.” Ultimately, Holmes said the decision to return to the classroom will be driven by the percentage of parents who choose not to send their kids back to school. If less students come back to in-person instruction, social distancing will be easier to manage.

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flexible as possible. They will have lower occupancy in dorms that can accommodate social distancing, and all university classes will be flexible between in-person and online instruction. “Students that are very comfortable coming into face-to-face instruction are able to do that, and can get a full campus experience and a full, rich, engaged learning classroom experience, but if they need to step out of that for any reason, either because they’re in a high-risk category or because they might have come into contact with somebody who’s tested positive and so they need to quarantine for 14 days, then we’ll provide for them an opportunity to continue learning through remote and online means,” Folks said. “They’ll still be able to engage with their class, they’ll still be able to engage with their faculty members, but they’ll be able to do that from their homes.” Folks said the university needs to be prepared to move in and out of face-toface instruction as the circumstances dictate. Everyone in the university will be required to wear face masks indoors at all times, unless they’re in their own separate office. She said the data is showing “unambiguously” that indoor spaces cause a much higher risk of spreading the disease than outdoors. Along with this effort is a new Bluetooth contact tracing app being headed by Joyce Schroeder, the department head and professor of molecular and cellular biology. This new app will be available for anyone in the university community and will supplement existing manual contact tracing practices. The app allows the user to self-report if they have been diagnosed with COVID-19 while keeping them completely anonymous. It will interact with other people’s phones in the community to THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA alert if they have come in contact with an is a higher education institution that infected person. Use of the app will not operates much differently than a public be required by the university, but they school. But President Robert C. Robbins strongly encourage that a majority of and university leaders have detailed people use it in order to better prevent plans that follow the same principles as more transmissions. the department of education to bring “It’s up to you, nobody is going to force their 60,000 people back to campus. Robbins said last week that the UA in- you to use this,” Schroeder said. “But tends to reopen in the fall, but if the state we’re going to hope that everybody uses it because the more people on campus of COVID-19 worsens by then, they will who use this technology, the safer we’re reassess. Dr. Richard Carmona, a former all going to be.” U.S. surgeon general who is tasked with Robbins hopes to have a final answer directing the campus reentry plan, said the university will use the epidemiologi- about reopening two months before the first day of school, August 24, so that stucal data to drive their decisions. UA Provost Liesl Folks said the univer- dents can have time to plan their living sity will ensure the return to campus is as situations and other matters. ■

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CABIN FEVER

As confirmed cases of COVID-19 continue to climb, voters are split on whether AZ is reopening too soon but want to visit family and friends again By Jim Nintzel jimn@tucsonlocalmedia.com

Arizona was “clearly on the other side of this pandemic” when he announced he was lifting the state’s stay-at-home order as of May 15, it appears the state is at best WITH ARIZONA NO LONGER on more of a plateau rather than a downunder a stay-at-home order, the number ward slope. of Arizonans hospitalized after contractAs the cases bump upwards, there is a ing COVID-19 continues to rise. As of Tuesday, June 2, a record number of 1,009 big partisan divide on whether the state is reopening too quickly, but most ArizoArizonans in the hospital tested positive nans are ready to get out of their houses, for COVID-19 or were suspected to have according to a poll released last week. the virus. Roughly 41 percent of voters surveyed And in four of the six days of the week by political consulting firm HighGround leading up June 2, more than 600 peosay the state is moving “too fast” to reple a day visited emergency rooms with COVID-like symptoms—the first time the open and get back to business. But roughly 39 percent say the reopening pace is number had topped 600 a day since the “just about right.” Another 19 percent say onset of the outbreak. Likewise, the number of people testing they don’t know. Despite that split, the poll found most positive hit new highs during that stretch, Arizonans are ready to resume at least with a record 635 people testing positive some of their normal activities. Threeon May 26 and 576 testing positive the fourths of those surveyed say they are following day and 538 people testing positive on May 28. The previous one-day at least probably ready to get back to record was set on May 15, with 564 people hosting friends and family, 74 percent say they are probably ready to gather in testing positive. A total of 21,250 have tested positive for groups of 10 or fewer, about two-thirds are COVID-19 since the outbreak hit Arizona, probably ready to go shopping and nearly 60 percent are probably ready to go back and 941 people have died after contractto restaurants. ing the virus. “Despite some pressure from a small Although Gov. Doug Ducey said that

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vocal constituency, the slow and steady approach to reopening the state should be viewed as a success in the eyes of the Arizona electorate,” HighGround CEO Chuck Coughlin said in an analysis of the polling numbers. “Granted there is still a significant portion of the state that believes things are moving ‘too fast.’ At the same time, many of them expressed a willingness to get back out in public to shop, eat, and visit friends and family.” As the state prepares to reopen schools in the fall, a slight majority—52 percent— are ready to send kids back to school, while about 14 percent say they probably are not ready and nearly 21 percent say they definitely are not ready to allow kids back in school. Coughlin said he expected those numbers would move as schools roll out safety precautions. “Getting kids back into the classroom is the next critical step to re-ignite our economy,” Coughlin said. “Voters understand this—parents with kids at home especially—and will be ready for that to happen starting this fall.” The survey notes significant divides on the questions between Republicans and Democrats, as well as between younger and older voters and between women and men. Just over half (53.3 percent) of Republicans in the state say the reopening is moving along just about right, while 30 percent of Republicans say it is moving too slow. But among Democrats, nearly

70 percent say the state is reopening too quickly, while roughly one in four say it’s just about right. Among voters outside of the two major parties, 42 percent say the state is reopening too quickly, while roughly 36 percent say it’s just about right. Meanwhile, 45 percent of voters 39 and younger say the reopening is going too fast, which is about 10 points higher than voters 50 and older. “I believe that reflects their own concern about the country’s economic recovery in relation to their own retirement plans,” Coughlin said. “Time will tell if the younger, more progressive cohorts start to become more comfortable with reopening or if it truly is a more partisan response.” When it comes to gender, 46 percent of women surveyed said the state was reopening too quickly, which was about 11 points higher than men. The survey was conducted among likely voters between May 18 and May 22. The poll surveyed likely Arizona 2020 general election voters with a history of electoral participation and was balanced to model the likely turnout of voters across party, age, region and gender. The live interview survey of voters included both landline and cell phone users. The partisan advantage was set at plus-4 percent GOP based on previous election trends and expected presidential election turnout. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.9 percent. ■

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Ray Flores, owner of downtown’s Charro Steak and Charro del Rey, said the damage from Friday night’s riot means he may not get open for Father’s Day.

DAMAGE CONTROL

Downtown restaurateurs recover from last weekend’s downtown riot By Austin Counts austin@tucsonlocalmedia.com

SMASHED WINDOWS, SCRAWLED graffiti and dumpster fires were on the menu and downtown eateries like Charro Steak, Charro Del Rey, Penca and Cartel Coffee Lab became unwilling hosts of protesters’ rage. Many local restaurants were already struggling due to two months of pandemic restrictions. While Gov. Doug Ducey gave the green light for restaurants to return to dine-in service over two weeks ago, many restaurateurs chose to remain closed until evidence showed the spread of COVID-19 was slowing. Ray Flores, owner of Charro Steak and Charro Del Rey, was hoping to be reopened for dine-in service by the week of Father’s Day. Now, he isn’t sure if that will be possible. Protesters broke 12 windows of his two restaurants that are housed on the same block in the Julian-Drew Building. To make matters worse, Charro Steak has to special order two large amber-tinted glass windows that take nearly two weeks to arrive, Flores said. “The whole thing sucks because we were planning on opening on June 14, but now that depends on the cleanup and glass arrival,” Flores said. “It was important to be open by the week of Father’s Day because that’s the last good week-

end of business that we would normally experience.” Flores said he saw a post on social media about his neighbors at the AC Marriott getting their windows smashed during last Friday’s protest. He soon bolted out the door to check out if his restaurants had also been damaged. On his way downtown, a former employee texted Flores to let him know someone had smashed all the windows to Charro Del Rey. The riot had moved down the block by the time he arrived on the scene, Flores said, but the damage was done. Now his main concern was getting the windows boarded up to protect the tenants living above. “We were really afraid that someone might throw a Molotov cocktail through the window and hurt the people who live above,” Flores said. “I decided we would have to board everything up. We were able to fill up some of the bigger holes and our friends at Penca also brought some wood over.” Penca Restaurante sits about a quarter-mile down Broadway Boulevard from Flores’ eateries. It too was a target during the riot. The majority of the restaurant’s windows were broken out by protesters. Penca chef David Solorzano got the news his restaurant was under attack when one of his bartenders texted him. Employees were in the building at the time helping

get the restaurant prepared to open in the near future, Solorzano said. “When I heard the news, I just ran over there,” Solorzano said. “We were planning on opening soon but obviously not now.” Both Solorzano and Flores said they understand why people are outraged over police brutality in the nation. However, both restaurateurs said they fail to understand how hurting local businesses accomplishes their goals. “I completely understand the outrage that is going on in the country at the moment. But I believe there are different ways of going about it,” Solorzano said. “I feel like destroying your own community, especially a business of a Mexican woman, kind of goes against what they were trying to accomplish.” Flores said he would have rather used the money he is spending on cleaning up after the riot toward helping the protesters’ cause. As it stands, he and his family are still attempting to reopen to dine-in service by Father’s Day. “It’s just sad because at the end of the day, we’re local,” Flores said. “I wish I was putting the money into something more beneficial to the cause, instead of deductibles on an insurance claim.” ■

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AS BUSINESSES SLOWLY GET back to (the new) normal, we’ll be highlighting local restaurants that are re-opening, as well as talking about what new foods and regulations they have. If you have news about restaurants reopening, email jeff@tucsonlocalmedia. com DOWNTOWN Kitchen + Cocktails. DOWNTOWN reopened on Monday, June 1 with reconfigured seating in the restaurant, as well as larger outdoor dining spaces. Chef Janos Wilder took time during the quarantine to work on a new menu as well, which features CONTINUED ON PAGE 13

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Acclaimed MMJ Doc Heather Moroso is creating new wellness center By David Abbott david@tucsonlocalmedia.com DR. HEATHER MOROSO is not your average medical marijuana doc. The eclectic and sometimes quirky neuropath doesn’t just serve those needing licenses to get medicinal cannabis, she is also a holistic healer who brings empathy and alternative treatments to patients and has devoted her professional life to easing pain for underserved or marginalized

members of society. Weekly readers should be familiar with Moroso’s practice on Speedway Boulevard near the University—she has won several “Best of” awards in these pages—but in the near future she hopes to reach a new population of patients as she creates a wellness center in South Tucson. To that end, and despite the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic on the local economy, Moroso is looking to expand her practice in a hopeful move she embarked upon right before the onset of the international health crisis. Shortly before the coronavirus put most of society into a holding pattern, Moroso made an offer on the building on the corner of East 33rd Street and Fourth Avenue that housed Antonio’s Bar, a historic tavern that was reportedly the last bar in a one-mile-square city that at one time had as many as 50 drinking establishments. “I looked up and all of a sudden I was in escrow,” Moroso says of the acquisition. “It’s a great space and still has the original bar top: There are still wads of gum stuck underneath and cigarette burns and carvings on the top.” The building has a large, open and airy space where Moroso hopes to create a homeopathic clinic offering alternative

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care, from acupuncture to naturopathic consultation, massage and nutritional advice, to smoothies created in the building’s large kitchen. She also expects to offer a variety of

yoga classes both inside and behind the building, where she envisions a ramada for classes, meals and public events. “It’s going to be a slow transition, but hopefully, we’ll be able to offer services

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soon,” she says. “We’re about two months away from starting.” Moroso says it’s a community effort she has embarked upon with an extensive support group, including her “cantankerous botanist” friend Aaron Chambers, who is helping plan the garden that will provide fresh food and medical plants—all plants edible and medicinal, southwest friendly and drought tolerant. Other friends will help redesign the interior and shepherd the kitchen through the commercial permit process. For the time being and the foreseeable future, Moroso will continue to provide services for her patients in her offices at 548 East Speedway Blvd., where she has operated for the past four years. Moroso originally came to Tucson from Seattle in 1992 to attend UA, earning a degree in ecology and environmental biology, and went on to achieve her Neuropathic Medicine Degree from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in 2002. She has served the community for many years, treating and serving HIV/AIDS patients, a mission she embarked upon right out of school. “We owe a debt of gratitude to the people that came before,” Moroso says. “One

woman I know went to more than 300 funerals for people who died of the disease. I’ve been to three. I can’t imagine going to that many.” Moroso has volunteered for the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation and was employed by El Rio/Special Immunology Associates from 2004-2009. She has served on the boards of Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network, Wingspan’s Health & Wellness Advisory Board and the Pima County Ryan White HIV/AIDS Consortium Membership Committee. She currently serves on the board of the Southern Arizona Artists and Musicians Healthcare Alliance. In 2007, she founded the nonprofit Positively Beautiful, an organization that helps HIV/AIDS patients with their self-esteem as their bodies succumb to the ravages of the disease. “It’s about self-image and not seeing the disease every time you look in the mirror,” she says. “It’s about empowerment.” As to the move and the life and practice Moroso has established in the Old Pueblo, she is grateful to be embraced by the community she loves to serve. “I found my niche here and feel at home in South Tucson,” she says. “I am lucky and humbled to be doing this work.” ■

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Paul Verlaine wrote “Autumn Song” in 1866. It became a wellknown French poem, and eventually played a role in a historical turning point. In June 1944, a topsecret British spy organization used the poem as a code to communicate crucial information to the French Resistance, via BBC radio, about the allies’ upcoming D-Day invasion of Normandy. In the spirit of poetry being used to accomplish practical actions, I’m now sending out a burst of code to you, Aries. It’s adapted from another poem by Verlaine: “Delight in good-omened fortune, baptized by the bristling scents of mint, thyme, and clover on the wind of dawn.” Regard this as a signal for you to acquire a necessary resource, strengthen connections with key allies, and intensify your current quest. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus philosopher Bertrand Russell observed, “The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.” That is always an important principle for everyone to embrace, in my opinion. But it will be an especially essential truth for you in the coming weeks. Your creative powers will thrive, even soar and generate blessings, to the degree that you downplay and outwit your possessive inclinations. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It’s OK to live a life others don’t understand,” writes author Jenna Woginrich. That’s a healthy attitude for an eccentric person like her, who taught herself by trial and error how to run a small farm with a meager budget while all alone in the middle of nowhere. But does her advice apply to everyone? I say yes, it does. All of us have quirky behaviors and idiosyncratic ideas and odd feelings that other people find hard to understand, let alone appreciate. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because the coming weeks will be a time when it’s best for you to emancipate yourself as much as

possible from the need to be perfectly understood as you express your raw, pure, unique self. CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m one of the lucky people who has never been addicted to alcohol or drugs. What’s the source of my great fortune? Two kinds of grace are key: I suffered no abuse and trauma when I was growing up, and my genetic make-up doesn’t predispose me to self-medicate with intoxicants. But I am indeed a bit addicted to other things, like fearful fantasies, sexual feelings, and the urge to win arguments. So I’m blessed in some ways, cursed in others—just like all of us! In honor of our season of introspection, my fellow Cancerian, I invite you to do what I just did: Count your blessings and curses. Doing so will bring you just the right kind of healing. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Jacquemus Mini Le Chiquito” is the name of a tiny purse you can buy for $522. It fits into the palm of your hand, and won’t hold much—maybe a single-use strand of dental floss, a shoe from a Barbie doll, a snippet of a loved one’s hair, an aspirin, maybe a few crumbs from a potato chip. In any case, I don’t recommend it for you. You should be surrounding yourself with symbols of capaciousness and roominess. You need influences that inspire you to be a spacious container. It’s time for you to welcome and receive an abundance of blessings, inquiries, and invitations. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don’t,” writes author Rebecca Solnit. “And it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.” Your assignment in the coming weeks is to thoroughly incorporate Solnit’s wisdom—and then wield it with tender ferocity as you reshape your relationship with the future. See if you can manage, if only for ten days, to fight off and dissolve the reflex to

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Here goes: I’m a 32-year-old gay male and I have trouble staying out of my head during sex. I feel like there may be many issues. The one non-issue is everything works fine on my own. When I’m single or “available,” I am OK. Let’s be honest: I’m a slut and I enjoy it. But when I invest in someone, when I’m trying to have an actual relationship, the sex suffers. With a partner I care about, I feel nervous. I feel small both mentally and physically. And I worry my dick is small. I’ve measured and photographed it, so I know better, but something in me is always asking... are you really enough? I’m currently in an open relationship

with a guy I’ve known for a decade. He’s amazing. Often I’m hard AF just sitting there relaxing with him. But the closer we get to actually having sex, the more nervous I become. I even stop breathing consistently. It’s almost like I feel ashamed to want someone so much. Or something? It’s frustrating because I would love nothing more than to fuck like rabbits until we were both exhausted. I love him and I want to be able to please him sexually! Our intimacy, our conversation, our connection—everything else is so strong. But I feel like my problem will kill any future I might have with him. He hasn’t really expressed a concern but

worry. Here’s a tip: Any time the agitated fantasy of an ugly scenario rises up in your imagination, remind yourself that it’s not objectively true and immediately replace it with a fantasy of a desirable scenario. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Nobel Prize-winning Libran author William Faulkner was asked by a cousin if he was drunk when he dreamed up the imaginative stories and characters in his novels. The truth was that on occasion Faulkner did indeed consume alcohol in excessive amounts. However, he rarely indulged while actually writing. His creative ideas mostly came from his fertile imagination, not an unhinged spirit. In the coming weeks, I hope you will be like Faulkner during the inventive phases he enjoyed while sober and disciplined and driven by focused intention. The astrological omens suggest that’s the best recipe for generating original ideas and productive visions. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “What use is this howling tenderness?” wrote eighth-century Tamil mystic poet Andal. My research on Google reveals that no one has answered her question until now. I decided you would benefit from hearing my response, since you are in a chapter of your life story when howling tenderness could work to your benefit. So here’s my counsel: Howling tenderness is useful because it has the power to shatter mysterious barriers that have been at least partially obstructing you from exploring the frontiers of sacred intimacy. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield articulates the spiritual medicine I think you should seek in the coming weeks. You especially need it, and by happy coincidence, it’s likely to be available. Kornfield writes: “When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.” I urge you to identify the people who can perform this service for you, then ask them point-blank to perform this service, even if it has to happen over FaceTime or via Zoom. To generate the good karma that will ensure this happens in just the right way, offer to

I worry. I have considered the idea of therapy but the idea of talking to some stranger about my sex life face to face is just daunting. So what do I do? My other thought is to just blindfold him and say bottoms up. —Dazed In Love So you don’t wanna talk with a therapist about your issues—which touch on more than just sex—but you’re willing to talk to me and all of my readers about them. I realize it’s a little different, DIL, as you don’t have to look me in the eye while we discuss your dick. But there are therapists who specialize in helping people work through their issues around sex and they’re usually pretty good at setting nervous new clients at ease. They have to be. So I would encourage you to

perform the same service for others. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The changes we dread most may contain our salvation,” writes author Barbara Kingsolver. Although I mostly agree with her conclusion, I’ll also suggest that we could come up with less melodramatic versions of it. For example, we might say, “The adjustments we’re resisting may actually be healthy.” Or “The uncomfortable transitions we’re avoiding might ultimately lead to a better version of comfort.” Or “The revelations we’re attempting to ignore and deny could eventually be the source of relief and release.” Do any of these work for you right now, Capricorn? I bet at least one does. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some people seem to think of sacredness as being pristine and pious—an immaculate and orderly transcendence of earthly concerns. Author and minister Marilyn Sewell has a different perspective. “Who can order the Holy?” she asks. “It is like a rain forest, dripping, lush, fecund, wild. We enter its abundance at our peril, for here we are called to the wholeness for which we long, but which requires all we are and can hope to be.” I recommend Sewell’s version of holiness to you in the coming weeks, Aquarius. You’re primed to upgrade and deepen your sacred lust for life. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When Europeans arrived in the New World, the Iroquois Confederacy in what’s now northeastern North American had been practicing participatory democracy for 350 years. The visionary principles of these native people ultimately influenced the formation of the United States and its Constitution. Now would be a good time for you to be inspired by these facts. How? You could draw teachings from the past and use them to create your future. You could study the perspectives of indigenous people and incorporate their wisdom into the way you live your life. You could tune in to and explore the traditions of people you respect and adopt them for your own use. ■ Homework: What’s your favorite thing to do when you’re alone? Testify: FreeWillAstrology.com

have a few sessions with a sex-positive queer shrink. Talking about your dick with a stranger will be awkward at first, of course, but just like eating ass, DIL, the more you do it, the less awkward it gets—and after a few sessions, your therapist won’t be a stranger anymore. (To find a sex-positive/poly-positive sex therapist, head over to the website of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists: aasect.org.) In the meantime, DIL, go ahead and blindfold your boyfriend—if he’s game, of course, and I can’t imagine he wouldn’t be. You seem to have an irrational fear of being seen. If your boyfriend were to get a good look at you naked, DIL, especially if he got a good look at your dick, you’re convinced he would

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suddenly conclude—even though he’s known you for a decade and is obviously into you—that you’re not “enough” for him. So don’t let him get a good look. Blindfold that boy. Don’t lie to him about why you want to blindfold him—tell him you feel a little insecure—but bringing in a blindfold makes working through your insecurities into a sexy game. Being able to have sex with the boyfriend without having to worry about him sizing up your cock will free you to enjoy sex and who knows? After a few hot sex sessions with your sensory-deprived boyfriend (or a few dozen hot sessions), your confidence may get the boost it needs and you won’t feel so insecure about your cock or anything else. And even if your dick was small—which it isn’t, DIL, and you’ve got the measurements and photos to prove it—you could still have great sex with your boyfriend. Guys with dicks of all sizes, even guys without dicks, can have great sex. And if you’re still nervous after blindfolding the boyfriend and worried you’ll go soft, DIL, you can take the pressure off by enjoying sex acts and play that don’t require you to be hard. You can bottom for him, you can blow him, you can use toys on his ass, you can sit on his face while he jacks off, etc. There’s a lot you can do without your dick. Zooming out, DIL, intimacy and hot sex are often negatively correlated—meaning, the more intimate a relationship becomes, the less hot the sex gets. Anyone who’s watched more than one American sitcom has heard a million jokes about this sad fact. People in sexually exclusive relationships who still want hot sex to be a part of their lives have to work at solving this problem with their partners. But if you’re in an open relationship and can get sex elsewhere, well, then you can have love and intimacy and pretty good sex with your partner and adventures and novelty and crazy hot sex with other people. Ideally, of course, a person in an open relationship wants—and it is possible for a person in an open relationship to have—hot sex with their committed partner as well as their other partners. But some people can’t make it work, DIL.

However hard they try, some people can’t have uninhibited or unselfconscious sex with a long-term partner. The more invested they are in someone, the higher the stakes are, the longer they’re together, etc., the less arousing sex is for them. Most of the people with this problem—people who aren’t capable of having great sex with a long-long-longterm partner—are in monogamous relationships and, judging

from the jokes on sitcoms, they’re utterly (but hilariously) miserable. You’re not in a monogamous relationship, DIL, so if it turns out you’re incapable of having great sex with a committed partner—if you can’t manage to integrate those things—you don’t have to go without great sex. You can have intimacy at home and great sex elsewhere. But it’s a double-edged sword, DIL, because if you can get hot sex elsewhere, you may not be motivated to do the work required—to talk to that shrink, to get that blindfold, to work through those issues—that would make it possible for you to have great sex with your partner and others.

I’ve been with my boyfriend for three years. I’m a 27-year-old woman and this was my first “real” relationship. Before I met my boyfriend, I would have considered myself a steady dick-jumper. I went flitting from guy to guy. On paper, our relationship seemed great. He tries to make sure I have what I need, whether it’s a meal, a TV show, a record to play. He is stable and affectionate; most of all, he wanted to be with me. But he’s boring. When I talk to him, I want to be somewhere, anywhere else. The more I tried to engage with him, the more obvious our lack of any deep connection seemed. He is stoic and un-emotional whereas I cry during car commercials. I’m desperately seeking an emotional equal. Every day I go back and forth between loving where we are and wanting to run the fuck away. I have a tendency to do the latter—with guys, friends, jobs—so I don’t know what I REALLY want. But I feel so incredibly unfulfilled. We have a lackluster sex life and I feel more like his roommate the past year than his girlfriend. I want to be inspired by my partner. My question is... actually, I’m not really sure I have a question. —First Relationship Fizzle Since you didn’t ask a question, FRF, I guess you don’t require an answer. So I’ll make an observation instead: you repeatedly refer to this relationship in the past tense. (“… this was my first ‘real’ relationship,” “…our relationship seemed great,” “…the more I tried.”) So you obviously know what you need to do. Your soonto-be-ex-boyfriend sounds like a good guy, FRF, and you don’t want to hurt him, which makes dumping him harder. But if he’s not the right guy for you, FRF, you’re not the right woman for him. Go back to flitting—and who knows? Maybe one day you’ll jump on a dick that’s attached to a guy you who inspires you. Or maybe you don’t want one guy—forever or for long. Some people are happier flitting than settling. ■ Join me for my first-ever Savage Lovecast Livestream! June 4 at 7:00 PST. I’ll answer as many of your questions as I can, all from the comfort of your computer. Tickets are at savagelovecast.com/ events.

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