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The Move To Clean Government Raises Some Dirty Constitutional Questions.
By Emil Franzi Sean Zapata
LAST NOVEMBER, Arizona voters narrowly passed Proposition
200, the so-called Clean Elections Proposal, over surprisingly
minimal opposition. Ironically, while publicly attacking dirty
money, Prop 200 supporters were funded by almost a million
dollars worth of out-of-state cash. Apparently one person s special
interest is someone else s noble cause. For the record,
The Weekly vociferously opposed Prop 200.
We saw it as a classic case of making a bad situation current
campaign finance law even worse with a scheme that trades the
perceived tyranny of lobbyists checkbooks for the even scarier
tyranny of the academic mandarin.
Guest Conductor Richard Westerfield Leads The TSO Through Mozart And Shostakovich.
By Emil Franzi
RICHARD WESTERFIELD, RECENTLY appointed Associate Conductor
of the Boston Symphony, will lead the Tucson Symphony in two performances
this week, with a program of Mozart and Shostakovich. He ll be
joined in the Mozart clarinet concerto by Burt Hara. Westerfield is currently the director of the Harrisburg Symphony.
Boston Maestro Seija Ozawa made Westerfield the first full Associate
Conductor there since Michael Tilson Thomas held the post 25 years
ago. Like Thomas and our own George Hanson, the 40-year-old Westerfield
is a protégé of the late Leonard Bernstein. At the
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With The Recent Reform Of The County s Health System, The Cure Seems Far Worse Than The Disease.
By Emil Franzi
THE PIMA COUNTY Board of Supervisors recently voted 3-2
to surrender direct control of nearly one-third of the county s
$700 million budget. These health-related responsibilities from Kino Hospital to
Long-Term Care, from Home Health to Animal Control will be placed
in the hands of a self-selected and self-perpetuating entity called
The Pima Health Care System Commission. This new system is defined
in the resolution, which set it up as quasi-governance. There was no public debate over the move, even though it has
been coming for many months and supervisors Sharon Bronson and