This wasn’t my comment in the survey, but I felt it in my bones: “I’m not uninformed so much as overloaded. Anything that makes the next step feel obvious and low effort makes it more likely I’ll follow through.
I get way too much email, some of which is really valuable and on many different areas of interest, everything from supporting native voices to saving wild birds and cleaning up the oceans to local issues with authoritarian legislature attempting absolute control of our health! I should probably narrow my focus, the Agenda helps localize my vision and points to what I could possibly do to help. So much is out of our control, by design.
I think that it may be a mistake to view other issues like local businesses as more worthy of coverage than Project Blue or whichever oligarch owns, runs and profits from environment destroying data centers allowed to inhabit Pima County. The anti-democratic oligarch will yield more power and consume more energy than practically all of Tucson's small businesses put together. Small businesses yes, oligarchs no.
I was intrigued by the person who said “they’d prefer a new tamale shop to a growing business” isn’t a new tamale shop a growing business? It’s obvious people hate Project Blue, it’s bad for energy prices, water, water and more water. We get lied to all the time and that one has got to be a whopper. What’s the upside, specifically for Tucson? Why are they so persistent? There have to be other parcels elsewhere in the country. Is the price of the land so low.... and I just don’t get it.
This wasn’t my comment in the survey, but I felt it in my bones: “I’m not uninformed so much as overloaded. Anything that makes the next step feel obvious and low effort makes it more likely I’ll follow through.
I get way too much email, some of which is really valuable and on many different areas of interest, everything from supporting native voices to saving wild birds and cleaning up the oceans to local issues with authoritarian legislature attempting absolute control of our health! I should probably narrow my focus, the Agenda helps localize my vision and points to what I could possibly do to help. So much is out of our control, by design.
I think that it may be a mistake to view other issues like local businesses as more worthy of coverage than Project Blue or whichever oligarch owns, runs and profits from environment destroying data centers allowed to inhabit Pima County. The anti-democratic oligarch will yield more power and consume more energy than practically all of Tucson's small businesses put together. Small businesses yes, oligarchs no.
I was intrigued by the person who said “they’d prefer a new tamale shop to a growing business” isn’t a new tamale shop a growing business? It’s obvious people hate Project Blue, it’s bad for energy prices, water, water and more water. We get lied to all the time and that one has got to be a whopper. What’s the upside, specifically for Tucson? Why are they so persistent? There have to be other parcels elsewhere in the country. Is the price of the land so low.... and I just don’t get it.
To the conservative reader’s comment: It’s either tamal (singular) or tamales (plural). 🫥