Joe Ferguson

5 days ago | arizonaagenda.com | Hank Stephenson |Joe Ferguson |Nicole Ludden

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.“We couldn’t help think of those immortal words from the “Cool Hand Luke” warden as we watched the slow motion train crash of a budget process playing out from dusk to nearly dawn on Friday morning, and the ensuing weekend war of press releases from all interested parties.

1 week ago | arizonaagenda.com | Hank Stephenson |Joe Ferguson |Nicole Ludden

Ballots are in the mail for the biggest election of the year — the special election to fill Raúl Grijalva’s seat in Southern Arizona’s sprawling Congressional District 7. Five candidates are running in the Democratic primary, though only three of them have a chance of winning:Odds-on-favorite Adelita Grijalva, a former Pima County supervisor who served two decades on the Tucson Unified school board before that.