Roads Scholar
To the Editor,Believe it or not, my friend Jeff Smith ranted in error ("Payback Time," Tucson Weekly, September 14).
Gov. Symington has not sent "road crews beginning work to widen the bridge on SR 82 across Flux Canyon Wash." Our friends at ADOT are building riprap to protect our two-lane road from being washed away by Sonoita Creek.
Nice try, but no cigar, Jeffie.
--Annie McGreevy, President
Friends of Scenic Highway 82
To Err Is Devine
To the Editor,Regarding Dave Devine's "We've Been 'Saggaued!' " (Tucson Weekly, September 28): And we have been "Devined." It is easy to discredit a fallen leader after the fall. To be "Devined" is to stand by, let the leader that you support self-destruct, and in the process head the community down the same cow-path and say nothing 'til it's over.
Mr. Devine seems to lament his poor choices rather than the problems
caused by Mr. Saggau's less-than-sterling performance. If it wasn't
power and a hand in governing, albeit vicariously, that motivated
Mr. Devine, he would have spoken out sooner.
--John Richards
That's Exactly Right
To the Editor,In regards to Don Perryman's letter (Tucson Weekly, September 28): If he doesn't like to see or hear Jim Click, just turn off the TV or shut off the radio. Mr. Click is a very generous man. Why, if it wasn't for him, TV and radio stations wouldn't have money to offer us many shows and broadcasts. I like Jim Click, his cousin Frank and his dad.
You have a problem with that,Perryman?
--Alicia Meza
Best Offense
To the Editor,Your Best of Tucson issue (Tucson Weekly, September 5) concluded there were no best local politicians. The verdict was cheaply predictable and wrong. I am one good local politician and am prepared to furnish a list of others.
--Jim McNulty
Net Success
To the Editor,I like the DesertNet setup and design. What a difference from the Star with their embarrassing little blurbs on the net at the bottom of articles in their paper like they are the net and these places are places you can get to only from StarNet. I guess this gives them an excuse to put even less content in their paper. They don't even give the URLs--real important information. Oh, well, it's just as good that these dinosaurs don't have a clue. Anyway, keep up the good work.
One design note: Drop those interlaced gifs from your cartoons.
For some reason, the last pass never gives as good a picture--I
can't read the captions.
--Bill Beaver
Virtual Praise
To the Editor,I finally decided to check out Tucson Weekly's Web site, and I loved it. I especially liked all the topical links you provide in each section; they allowed me to go to places that I was reasonably sure I would like. There's just so much out there on the Internet, one sometimes finds it difficult to find a good starting place. I think Tucson Weekly is going to be one of my first choices for the foreseeable future.
One thing hit me after I closed my Web browser, though. I went
all the way from Tucson Weekly's Currents section to a
site that had the entire contents of the Brady Law, which was
billed at the site as, "...one of the most flagrantly anti-Constitutional
rags ever drafted, and it is terrifying that it ever made it into
law!" I just thought that Tom Tomorrow, Derf, Jim Hightower,
Hannah Glasston and Andy Mosier (among others) ought to know that.
Ain't the Internet great?
--Bill Rhodes
Best Wishes
To the Editor,As frequent visitors of Southern Arizona (from the Netherlands), we appreciate your extensive "Best of Tucson" report (Tucson Weekly, October 5). It is a big help.
We would like to add a Best Weekly category, though. After traveling extensively for nearly two years through most of the contiguous states west of the Missouri River, we think adequate weekly papers are published in many (university) towns, like Kansas City, Berkeley and Seattle. But in our opinion none of these offer such extensive, refreshing and often hilarious reports on local and regional life as the Tucson Weekly does.
Each time we drive into Tucson, our first stop is to pick up the Tucson Weekly. While away from Tucson, we keep with us the clear images your writers paint of the Symingtons, Moores, Clicks and other Arizona power brokers and greedheads "to look down at."
Our European background is publishing and communication. We wish
to emphasize that we think highly of the level of journalism of
the Tucson Weekly. Not only is your satire fun to read;
your interviews and many of your features are worth taking pause
for. Some of the columns have definite ballbusting quality.
--Ton Haak
Ans Zoutenbier
