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10Oct By Pima Post Editorial TeamNo Comments
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PCC Offers First Autonomous Driving Certificate Program

By KYLE KERSEY Pima Community College and autonomous semi-truck company TuSimple announced the creation of the first autonomous driving certificate program for commercial truck drivers on June 13. The certification program, named the Autonomous Vehicle Driver and Operations Specialist program, consists of five classes and 12 credits. Those classes are Industrial Safety (AIT 100), Electrical Systems I (AIT 125), Introduction to Autonomous Vehicles (AUV 101), Computer Hardware Components (CIS 136) and Transportation and Traffic Management (LGM 106). The program is geared towards current truck drivers and requires a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) for completion as well as the safety class, though this can be waived if the driver has their OSHA 10 card. However, any of the five classes ma...
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Tucson’s 42nd annual Pride Parade celebrated
10Oct By Pima Post Editorial TeamNo Comments
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Tucson’s 42nd annual Pride Parade celebrated

Photos and story By JOE GIDDENS  You could hear the gleeful voices of the students from Rincon-University High School’s Gender-Sexuality Alliance singing “Bohemian Rhapsody” as the participants of the “2019 Pride in the Desert” got ready.  “Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me,” they sang. The 42nd annual Tucson Pride in the Desert Parade and Festival took place Sept. 28.  This year’s theme was “Rise Up” for the Stonewall Riots’ 50th anniversary. The theme was of particular significance to one parade participant. Ira Nadborne was born in Brooklyn and came out in 1965, which caused “all hell to break loose” in the house. Later, he was sent for conversion therapy and was abandoned by his family.  Four years later, he was living in Greenwich Village behind the Stonewall I...
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Pima Police shakeup
10Oct By Pima Post Editorial TeamNo Comments
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Pima Police shakeup

By JOE GIDDENS Pima County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Harold “Buddy” Janes has been assigned as the Acting Chief of Pima Community College Police. The announcement was made in a Oct. 7 email to college staff by PCC Vice Chancellor Bill Ward.   Janes assumed duties on Oct. 7 and will be assisting Pima Police with getting its International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators accreditation. Michelle Nieuwenhuis has been the acting Pima chief of police since August.  Janes is replacing former Chief Christopher Albers, who stepped down from the role in mid-August after serving as Pima’s chief for three years.  Ward said Albers stepped down for personal reasons. When contacted by phone, Albers declined to comment.  In previous years, turnover within the department has been...
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Local leaders address domestic violence
9Oct By Pima Post Editorial TeamNo Comments
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Local leaders address domestic violence

Story by JOE GIDDENS Photo by JOSHUA SHAVER Twenty-seven cases of domestic violence took place on Pima Community College property between 2016 and 2018, with the Downtown Campus making up over half of these incidents, according to Pima College Police’s 2019 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs2MoRxzNDI&t=7s Pima’s annual security report was released Sept. 30, the eve of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which was launched in 1981. “Domestic violence is the most common cause of injury to women and children,” said Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall during an Oct. 1 press conference. “And last year there were more than 15,000 reports to law enforcement.” About 2,000 residents who are domestic violence victims and are at high risk for se...
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Presidential Candidate Beto O’Rourke to host town hall in Main Gate
2Oct By Pima Post Editorial TeamNo Comments
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Presidential Candidate Beto O’Rourke to host town hall in Main Gate

By JOE GIDDENS Democratic presidential candidate  Beto O’Rourke is arriving in the Old Pubelo this weekend to campaign. O’Rourke will be at Gentle Ben's Brewing at at 865 E. University Blvd in Main Gate Square. The event runs from 3 to 5 p.m. O'Rourke has been struggling to rise above single digits in his polls as the next presidential debate takes place on Tuesday October 15. To rsvp: https://act.betoorourke.com/event/beto-events/33763/?source=facebook-20191006-tuscon-az&fbclid=IwAR32h28jwoPF9EfJZlv5OwpSBsXUzItK6zNbLehsdsTCjBtiPA6EdWn694w
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Youth Climate Strike rallies Downtown
26Sep By Pima Post Editorial TeamNo Comments
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Youth Climate Strike rallies Downtown

  By JOSHUA SHAVER  and JOE GIDDENS Inspired by teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, a series of international protests demanding action have taken place in the lead up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23.    Other topics raised by protesters included indigenous rights and inequality. Globally, over 2,500 events were scheduled in over 160 countries, according to Vox. Tucson residents came out with signs in hand for the Arizona Youth Climate Strike rally Sept. 20 in Downtown Tucson in El Presidio park. The event was co-led by University of Arizona students Daniel Casanova and Lyle Klein.    “Climate change is one of the areas we’ve worked on the edges on,” said Tucson mayoral candidate Regina Romero. “But we really need to have a much mor...
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26Sep By Pima Post Editorial TeamNo Comments
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Aztec Press editor fact checks local politician

By JOE GIDDENS Locally, Ally Miller, Pima County District 1 supervisor, took to Twitter to weigh in on climate rallies and teenage activist Greta Thunberg. “To to all the young folks screaming that the end is near!  To follow this woman??? Kidding right? In the ’70s, when I was a young high school graduate they said the Ice age (sic) was coming. Yes ... they said that.  Don’t be a tool! #GlobalWarmingHoax,” Miller tweeted on Sept. 23.  However, Miller represents Pima County where the climate now has 24 more days above 100 degrees than it had in the 1970s. This makes it the second-largest increase in the nation, according to Climate Central.  As previously reported in the Aztec Press and the Phoenix New Times, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey repeatedly has balked at using the phrase “climate cha...
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E-scooters hit Tucson streets
26Sep By Pima Post Editorial TeamNo Comments
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E-scooters hit Tucson streets

Story and photos by JOE GIDDENS The City of Tucson Department of Transportation launched a six-month E-Scooter Pilot Program on Sept. 12. Two companies, Bird and Razor, each have deployed 500 scooters with an additional 250 in designated “opportunity zones,” or areas of the city that lack motor vehicles and where residents have a low income. The program aims to reduce the number of vehicles on the road and provide revenue to the city government.  The City of Tucson’s income from the project is a 20-cent-per-ride fee and a $4,000 application fee from Bird and Razor. The company’s annual fee is $15,000, which will be divided into the initial six-month pilot program. The remainder will be applied if the pilot is extended, according to city documents.  “I just rode both now for the fir...
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Chancellor spends $20.5K+ on Spring travel
2May By Pima Post Editorial TeamNo Comments
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Chancellor spends $20.5K+ on Spring travel

By AMARIS ENCINAS and JOE GIDDENS  During the April 3 governors board meeting, Chancellor Lee Lambert made an announcement about his travels for Pima Community College. “And then I know there was concerns about my travel,” he said. “So as a result, we’re going to enhance the current board’s travel policy. So we will be bringing an amendment to the board travel policy, just to provide a little more oversight and transparency.” The amendment hasn’t been introduced yet, but it will modify Board Policy 4.06 and it includes: The chancellor will inform the board chair of the purpose or overall end goal for travel; following the trip, the chancellor will inform the governing board of the insight acquired from the trip itself; and lastly, the chancellor will at least provide an annual written...
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