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Setting the tableCounty, city have renewed interest in economic development

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Tomatoes back on the menuAnti-dumping deal ‘bittersweet’ for Nogales

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Rio, Tucson make amendsTasks of TCC anddowntown hotel remain

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Of an estimated 80,000 Arizonans eligible for deferred deportation, 14,069 — about 18 percent — applied for the federal program through its fi rst six months from Aug. 15 to Jan. 17. Th at rate is much lower than the 43 percent for the nation as a whole.

Advocates cite a number of reasons for Arizona’s relatively low application rate, including cost, timing, political uncertainty and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s outspoken opposition to the plan.

“Th ere were a lot of things that I think just sort of slowed it down,” said Laura Lichter, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. “I don’t see anything sinister here.”

Th e program, unveiled last summer by President Obama, is aimed at illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and have stayed out of trouble since. Th ey have to be in school or the military – or have successfully fi nished one of those – and pay an application fee to qualify.

People approved for the program cannot be deported for two years and could apply for a renewed deferral every two years.

Supporters insist it is not a path to citizenship, but Brewer immediately attacked it last summer as back-door amnesty and “an outrage.” In August, she said the state would not issue driver’s licenses to program participants.

“It was really a mean-spirited attack on the program,” said Alessandra Soler, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona.

Brewer’s offi ce did not return requests for comment.But Soler and others said Brewer was only one of the

factors that could have suppressed response in Arizona.Regina Jeff eries, head of the Arizona chapter of the

American Immigration Lawyers Association, said potential applicants may be waiting for comprehensive immigration reform but an even bigger issue could the $465 application fee that low-income families and student cannot aff ord.

Cesar Vargas, executive political director of the DRM Action Coalition, agreed the fee is an issue, but said that could be changing as people donate money to help applicants pay.

“Th e fact that there is talk about comprehensive immi-gration reform has generated a surge of fi nancial support, legal support for DREAMERs,” he said of the young immi-grants the program targets.

Th e number of applicants also appears to be slowing. Of Arizona’s 14,069 applicants, only 1,175 were submitted in the most recent 30-day period from Dec. 13 to Jan. 17.

Arizona DREAMers applying at less than half the rate of U.S.

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Google Business Photos takes you inside from your PC or mobile device By Patrick McNamaraInside Tucson Business

In the ever-expanding universe of Google, a new service the Internet com-pany recently rolled out could prove another useful marketing tool to business.

Google Business Photos allows companies to include virtual tours of their facili-ties through Google Maps and other platforms.

“Business owners who participate in the program benefi t by gaining more visibility and exposure on Google Maps,” said Kevin J. Trainor, assistant professor of marketing at Northern Arizona University. “Th e content business owners provide (i.e., their virtual tours) ultimate-ly makes Google Maps more valuable than other mapping applications. As evidenced by the recent troubles facing Apple’s attempt at rolling out a mapping application, Google Maps is highly regarded by users.”

About 100,000 busi-nesses in the U.S. have signed onto the service, according to Google.

Several Tucson companies are

participating, including Barrio Brew-ing and Gentle Ben’s breweries.

“People can go online and see what they’re getting,” said Dennis Arnold, owner

of Barrio Brewing Co., 800 E. 16th St., and Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company, 865 E. University Blvd.

Th e virtual tours give users a 360-degree view of the interior of a business. Th e tours can be found on various Google products, such as street view maps.

On Google Maps, a participating business is signifi ed by a yellow

dot over its address that’s seen when a user drags the yellow man icon to

a map point to open street views. From there, directional arrows

point to the business where the user can continue inside and explore.

Photos and virtual tours also can be found when conducting a standard Google Web search. In the middle column next to the search results appears a profi le and similar search results.

If a company has Google Busi-ness Photos and a virtual tour, users can access it there.

“I like it because a lot of people can get a feel for the place,” Arnold said.

He said he thinks it’s par-ticularly helpful to businesses like restaurants

where the aesthetics of the interior space are important to customers, whether it’s to determine if the décor is to their liking or if the place is large enough to meet their needs for a private party or special event.

Businesses have to go through a Google-certifi ed “trusted photographer.” In Tucson, David Krzyzanowski of Diz-zyPix is one of the photographers who shoots photos for the virtual tours.

“I would think this will become the norm,” Krzyzanowski said as he set up his camera at Lazydays RV, 3200 E. Irving-ton Road, where he recently took photos

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17th Street Market to close at end of March

Th e 17th Street Market, open for more than 20 years at 840 E. 17th Street, has an-nounced plans to close by March 31.

Th e company made the announcement in its e-newsletter and website, seven-teenthstreetmarket.com.

“It has been our pleasure, and our honor, to serve our grocery customers in Tucson for the past 20 years,” Tucson Food Service President and CEO Tom Kusian wrote in the newsletter. “Our loyal customers have en-joyed our eclectic, sometimes exotic, often surprising inventory, and local music and entertainment features over the years, and we want to sincerely thank them for their patronage.”

Th e newsletter goes on to note that the closure comes as a result of the growth of Tucson Food Service’s other divisions, in-cluding Tucson Party Rentals.

Th e company announced a 20 percent off sale on all dry grocery goods as it pre-pares to close the store.

Bourque restructures after CEO’s DUI conviction

Bourque Industries, Inc., a Tucson-based company in the process of commercializing its patented Kryron metal-alloying process, announced a restructuring and expansion of its board of directors and appointment of a new interim CEO.

Sean Floyd was named CEO and John Bourque, the Founder of the Company and the inventor of its technology, was renamed as chief scientist. Th e board was expanded from three to fi ve seats.

Th e changes came following Bourque’s conviction on aggravated drunk-driving charges. He faces up to seven years in prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for March.

Bourque previously spent more than three years in state prison following a 2004 aggravated DUI conviction.

Floyd has served as executive vice presi-dent for Bourque Industries, Inc. since Jan-uary of last year.

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Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company 865 E. University Blvd. www.gentlebens.com

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Lazydays Tucson3200 E. Irvington Roadwww.lazydays.com

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for a virtual tour. Krzyzanowski said

he’s required to do a series of external photos of a business that can link with the Google street view images. From there, he walks the camera into the establishment, stopping every four feet to take a series of 360-degree images.

Only Google-trusted photographers can take the photos for a busi-ness because the pho-tographer also has ac-cess to the Google site to upload the photos.

Bob Grady, general manager of Lazydays, said he decided to use Google Business Photos as a way to expand the dealership’s online presence and to display what he said is the loca-tion’s unique features.

“Th ere is no other RV dealer-ship that is like this,” Grady said. “We’re a destination.”

Grady said much of the state’s RV busi-ness has shifted north, to the Mesa area, particularly since Beaudry RV closed. Part of what the company wants to do is bring that business back to Tucson. Google Business Photos is a part of that plan.

Th e new Google service also could prove useful to market-ing and advertising companies.

Even as products like business pho-tos appear as if they could eliminate

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the need for professional assistance in marketing a company, Trainor said that might not be the case.

“I don’t believe that this service will diminish the role played by agencies and instead it may actually increase demand for some,” he said. “Google’s continual innovations seem to create opportuni-ties for those who can quickly fi gure it all out and simplify it for their custom-ers. Th e constant change is just too much for most business owners to get their

heads around and keep up with – after all, they have enough to worry about.”

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Mexican soccer team to play friendly match here

FC Tucson has announced that MLS team Seattle Sounders FC will play Mexico’s Veracruz in a preseason friendly on Friday (Feb 22).

Th e match kicks off at 7 p.m. at Kino North Field 5, at the Kino Sports Complex, 2500 E. Ajo Way.

Club Deportivo Tiburones Rojos de Ve-racruz, also known as Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz, is a Mexican professional soccer club that currently plays in Ascenso MX, Mexico’s second division.

Th e club has won three league titles and one Mexican Cup title. Veracruz is currently second in Ascenso MX.Tickets are on sale at www.fctucson.ticketsocket.com.

BBB warns againstphony ACC mailings

Th e Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona warns area businesses against of-fi cial looking documents that have been mailed by a company called Corporate Re-cords Service, which has advertised a corpo-rate document fi ling service for a $125 fee.

Th e documents resemble Arizona Corpo-ration Commission (ACC) fi ling documents.

Th e ACC says the solicitation is meant to “intentionally create confusion by using language that is similar to that in Corporate Commission documents.”

Th e mailers list a return address of 4802 E. Ray Road in Phoenix, which is the ad-dress for a UPS Store. To date neither BBB nor the ACC have been able to identify the individual, or individuals, responsible for the mailer.

If your business receives the solicitation the ACC urges you to contact the Arizona Attorney General’s Offi ce at (520) 628-6504, or by visit www.azag.gov to fi le a complaint.

George Comerci, pioneer in UA pediatrics, dies at 81

Th e University of Arizona Department of Pediatrics has announced that Dr. George Comerci has died.

Comerci, 81, died of natural causes on Sunday (Feb. 10).

Comerci was one of the founding mem-bers of the UA Department of Pediatrics, a past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a major fi gure in the devel-opment of adolescent medicine as a pediat-ric subspecialty in the United States.

In 1977, Comerci established the adoles-cent medicine program at the UA. Th e UA College of Medicine “George Comerci Visit-ing Professorship in Adolescent Medicine” was established in 2007 to honor Comerci for these groundbreaking accomplishments.

Services will take place on Saturday (Feb. 16) at 10 a.m., at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 9252 E. 22nd St.

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As part of the agreement, Rio Nuevo would invest at least $6 million in the TCC.

This Week’s Good News Take me out to Hi Corbett

Th ey won the NCAA College World Series last season, and in pre-season are ranked No. 10 in the USA Today coaches’ poll, No. 14 by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Asso-ciation, No. 18 by Collegiate Baseball and No. 24 by Baseball America, but through all that out tonight when the University of Arizona Wild-cats take to the fi eld for their season opener at Hi Corbett Field.

Th e game against Coppin State starts at 6 and will include some special celebratory events. Even if you can’t make it tonight, there will be two more opportunities this weekend, at 2 p.m. Saturday and then noon Sunday.

Info about the games and promotions is online at www.arizonawildcats.com.

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INSIDERInsights and trends on developing andongoing Tucson regional business news.

What TUSD ruling is not Talk about knee-jerk reactions. Insider is

hearing far too many jumps to conclusions over federal Judge David C. Bury’s ruling that Tuc-son Unifi ed School District culturally relevant courses. People from both sides of the argu-ment are interpreting that to mean there could be a reinstatement of the Mexican American Studies Program that previously existed.

Except that Judge Bury’s ruling was made as part of the district’s 30-year-old desegregation case and the judge specifi cally said any courses must comply with state law. In fact, he spe-cifi cally said his ruling was not about Mexican American Studies.

Maybe the fi rst thing TUSD ought to teach people is to read before they leap to conclusions.

Poignant Bear Down If you’re not a subscriber to University of Ari-

zona Director of Athletics Greg Byrne’s Wildcat Wednesday, you’re missing out on some infec-tious cheering. Last week’s contained a particu-larly poignant one as Byrne described going through the mail when he came across a letter and photo from U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brian Williams from Sierra Vista who was desployed to Afghanistan in February 2012.

“In his letter he told me that he was tasked out with an Army unit doing clearance of known Taliban points of interest when an IED detonated and he sustained life threatening in-juries,” Byrne wrote and then told how Williams went on to describe how much enjoyment he has been getting watching UA athletics, from last summer’s baseball championship to foot-ball and now basketball as he recovers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

It just goes to show how people’s lives can be touched when he might least expect it.

City, Rio Nuevo end dispute, now begin to talk about hotel, TCC fi xesBy Patrick McNamara Inside Tucson Business

Now that an accord has been reached in the feud between the City of Tucson and the Rio Nuevo Multipurpose Facilities District, the long-delayed tasks of fi xing the Tucson Convention Center and building a downtown hotel can begin.

“We’re certainly encouraged by the news,” said Brent DeRaad, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Tucson Convention and Visitors Bureau.

On Feb. 7, city and Rio Nuevo leaders signed an agreement that puts an end to more than two years of disputes over ownership of property and a pair of lawsuits that Rio Nue-vo had fi led against the city seeking millions of dollars in repayment for years of wanton spending.

Th e agreement sets into motion eff orts for Rio Nuevo to begin spending its sales tax proceeds on repairs to the aged Tucson Con-vention Center and pursue a public-private partnership on a downtown hotel project. Both were hallmarks of the original Rio Nuevo proposal that voters approved in 1999.

“In looking at downtown, ideally we should have a true convention center hotel,” DeRaad said.

Th at would be a facility with about 500 rooms and as much 50,000-square feet of meeting space, which could make the region more competitive with other cities in the re-gion in competition for conventions and other events, he said.

Rio Nuevo Board Chairman Fletcher Mc-Cusker said the district has already been in communication with two or three hotel de-velopers about possible partnerships.

“I think we can leverage the little money we have with private investment,” McCusker said.

For example, McCusker said, the board could agree to pay the costs of utility infra-structure for a hotel project in the downtown area. Th e Tucson City Council has to ap-prove any Rio Nuevo expenditure larger than $50,000.

Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik said he was satisfi ed with the agreement the parties reached and the opportunity to move forward with real projects. But he cautioned against simply starting to spend money again on ill-conceived Rio Nuevo projects.

“I don’t subscribe to ‘build it and they will come,’” Kozachik said.

He said people should be mindful of the fi -nancial limitations and the size of the Tucson market.

“Let’s build for the events that we legiti-mately have an expectation of hosting,” he said. “We’re not San Diego or Los Angeles.”

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dustry, Kozachik said Tucson was a SMERF market, which is short for social, military, educational, religious and fraternal. In other words, Tucson is a smaller market and not likely to attract larger conventions common in major markets.

Kozachik said a proposal to build a hotel at the Depot Plaza, at Fifth and Toole av-enues downtown, could meet the require-ments of the new agreement and state law.

Th at plan, a proposal by downtown de-veloper Scott Stiteler, was to build a 130-room boutique hotel.

“Th at’s exactly something that we could have a serious conversation about,” Koza-chik said.

Another possibility for the city and Rio Nuevo would be to reopen talks with HSL Properties, owner of the closed 307-room Hotel Arizona, 181 W. Broadway.

Owner Humberto Lopez has tried on numerous occasions to get the city to part-ner with his company in refurbishing the 39 year-old hotel, which shares a property line

with the TCC.“We certainly think that this opens up a

door,” said Omar Mireles, vice president of HSL Properties.

But given the previous thwarted at-tempts, Mireles said the company wasn’t holding out hope.

In the meantime, Mireles said they have looked at alternative uses for the closed ho-tel, including student housing, senior resi-dences or multi-family housing.

Kozachik also said that whatever hotel project the city and Rio Nuevo decide to pur-sue it needs to be privately funded.

A proposal from 2010, which the coun-cil ultimately rejected, would have had the city assume much of the fi nancial burden to build a $190 million, 500-room hotel in a public-private partnership.

“If it’s fully publicly funded,” Kozachik said, “that’s going to be a non-starter.”

Contact reporter Patrick McNamara

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Biz FactsTHE DEAL What The City of Tucson and the Rio Nuevo Multipurpose Facilities District agreed to in their settlementRio Nuevo• Invest $6 million in Tucson Convention Center upgrades• Invest $1.1 million in Mission Gardens project• Spend $750,000 on downtown streetscape improvements• Pay City of Tucson nearly $2.2 million from unspent 2008 bonds

• Dismiss lawsuits against city.City of Tucson• Pay Rio Nuevo $16 million over 37 years for the Depot Garage• Transfer ownership of Heritage Park property to Rio Nuevo• Affi rm Rio Nuevo ownership of Court Avenue Duplex and Church Avenue/Council Street parking lot.In addition to the explicit terms, the two parties agreed that Rio Nuevo could decide to take title of the so-called Arena Site, an 8.5-acre parcel at Interstate

10 and Congress Street. If it does so, Rio Nuevo would agree to drop an $894,000 claim for reimbursements related to the property. Rio Nuevo also would be required to pursue development of the site as a hotel, stadium, arena or mixed-use facility. Should Rio Nuevo decline to accept title to the property, the city would keep the parcel and agree to pay the district the $894,000 after a long-term lease for use of the site is agreed to.

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PUBLIC NOTICESBusiness bankruptcies, foreclosures and liens recorded in Tucson or Pima County and select-ed filings in Phoenix. Addresses are Tucson unless otherwise noted.

BANKRUPTCIESChapter 11 - Business reorganization Ocean Sports Inc., doing business as Desert Divers Scuba Center and Worldwide Diving Services Inc., 3110 E. Fort Lowell Road. Principal: Michael Huhn, president. Assets: $172,284.37. Liabilities: $479,250.94. Largest creditor(s): James Delay, c/o Tucson Tractor, $163,500.00. Case No. 4:13-bk-01583 fi led Feb. 5. Law fi rm: Eric Slocum Sparks

Competition Tire and Service LLC., 1801 E. Fry Blvd., Sierra Vista. Principal: Leandro Guillen, president/owner. Estimated assets: $50,000 or less. Estimated liabilities: More than $500,000 to $1 million. Largest creditor(s): Schedule not fi led. Case No. 4:13-bk-01586 fi led Feb. 5. Law fi rm: Eric Slocum Sparks

Community Healthcare Of Douglas Inc., doing business as Southeast Arizona Medical Center, 2174 W. Oak Ave., Douglas. Principal: Ann L. Benson, chief executive offi cer. Assets: $8,904,666.34. Liabilities: $3,446,632.53. Largest creditor(s): Sierra Vista Regional Health Center, Sierra Vista, $2,011,364.33; Medical Diagnostic Imaging Group Ltd., Phoenix, $175,803.32; QHR, Brentwood, Tenn., $166,185.90; Quality Services Inc., Los Angeles, $152,590.85; and Emcare Physician Services Inc., Chicago, $150,685.25. Case No. 4:13-bk-01738 fi led Feb. 8. Law fi rm: Michael W. Carmel, Phoenix

Community Healthcare Of Douglas Inc., doing business as Southeast Arizona Medical Center, 2174 W. Oak Ave., Douglas. Principal: Ann L. Benson, chief executive offi cer. Assets: $8,904,666.34. Liabilities: $3,446,632.53. Largest creditor(s): Sierra Vista Regional Health Center, Sierra Vista, $2,011,364.33; Medical Diagnostic Imaging Group Ltd., Phoenix, $175,803.32; QHR, Brentwood, Tenn., $166,185.90; Quality Services Inc., Los Angeles, $152,590.85; and Emcare Physician Services Inc., Chicago, $150,685.25. Case No. 4:13-bk-01738 fi led Feb. 8. Law fi rm: Michael W. Carmel, Phoenix

FORECLOSURE NOTICES Integrity Development LLC 216 E. Yavapai Road 85705Tax parcel: 106-04-085A Original Principal: $30,000.00 Benefi ciary: Neil J. Powell, trustee NJP Enterprise Inc. Auction time and date: 11:30 a.m. May 2, 2013 Trustee: Jeffrey S. Katz, 2823 E. Speedway, Suite 201

Integrity Development LLC 5207 and 5209 S. Burke Circle 85706Tax parcel: 137-07-1160 Original Principal: $33,000.00 Benefi ciary: Neil J. Powell, trustee NJP Enterprise Inc. Auction time and date: 11:30 a.m. May 2, 2013 Trustee: Jeffrey S. Katz, 2823 E. Speedway, Suite 201

Vistoso Partners LLC Approximately 48.47 acres at northeast corner of Rancho Vistoso Boulevard and Moore Road and approximately 26.46 acres east of La Canada Drive north of Desert Fairways Drive, Oro Valley 85755Tax parcel: 219-20-9140, 219-21-627K, 219-21-627M, 219-54-006A, 223-02-010A and 223-02-010B Original Principal: $11,000,000.00 Benefi ciary: VP II Loan LLC (71.221%), Trine Holdings LLC (2.894%), Bruce Dennis Buckley and Alvia Virginia Buckley (0.813%), Walter J. Clarke IRA (0.406%), David Furst and Hannah Furst (0.427%), Harvey Golden and Merylee Golden (0.184%), Queen Creek XVIII LLC (4.065%), Lonnie Joel Krueger (0.504%), Maurice J. Lazarus (0.705%) WCL858006 LLC (4.065%), Investor CLOUT (4.065%), William J. Miller and Sandra B. Miller (2.033%), Katalin A. Rader IRA (0.813%), Linda A Reeves (2.106%), Robert G. Roden (1.626%), Susan E. Shipley IRA (0.813%) David Brian Stanton (0.594%) and John C. Vinson and Taeko Vinson (2.064%)Auction time and date: 11 a.m. April 30, 2013 Trustee: Christopher M. McNichol, Gust Rosenfeld, 1 E. Washington St., Suite 1600, Phoenix

Vistoso Partners LLC Approximately 988.59 acres of various parcels of vacant land east of Vistoso Boulevard and north of Tangerine Road, Oro Valley 85755Tax parcel: 219-21-627H and 219-22-4130 Original Principal: $14,300,000.00

Tomato accord seen as ‘bittersweet’By Curt PrendergastNogales International

Nogales produce distributors say they face an uncertain future after the U.S. government reached an agreement with growers and ex-porters of Mexican tomatoes this month.

Th e U.S. tomato industry, particularly Florida growers, had pressured the U.S. De-partment of Commerce to reopen an anti-dumping investigation from 1996, alleging that Mexican growers were selling their product in the U.S. for less than it cost them to produce it.

Th e department’s suggestions that it was sympathetic to the request had some ob-servers raising the specter of a U.S.-Mexico trade war. Th e agreement that was reached averting a showdown was “bittersweet,” said Lance Jungmeyer, president of Nogales-based Fresh Produce Association of the Americas (FPAA).

“We were enthusiastic that a deal was done, but as time has allowed the details of the deal to settle in, particularly the prices, we really realized that it’s not a great deal, especially for the businesses here in Nogales,” he said.

Th e agreement is still tentative and not scheduled to take eff ect until March 4. In the meantime the Commerce Department was taking public comment on the proposal up through Monday (Feb. 11).

With the agreement, the Department of Commerce plans to put on ice its plans to lift the suspension of the anti-dumping in-vestigation, but it is also raising the mini-mum price for Mexican tomatoes.

Jungmeyer had heard for the past few months that any price increase would be modest, he said. “Th is is far from modest, this is obscene,” he said of the minimum, or refer-ence prices, established by the new deal.

Previous renegotiations of the suspen-sion agreement, in 2002 and 2008, resulted in much smaller price increases, he said. “Th e prices have gone up a penny, or some-thing in that neighborhood, per pound. Th is time it’s gone up almost 10 cents a pound” for fi eld tomatoes, he said.

During the winter months, which is the busy season for Nogales produce distribu-tors, the $0.21 per pound reference price for tomatoes will jump to $0.31 for open fi eld to-

matoes, $0.41 for “controlled environment” tomatoes, $0.45 for specialty, loose tomatoes, and $0.59 for packed, according to a fact sheet from the International Trade Adminis-tration of the Department of Commerce.

For summer tomatoes, the reference price will increase from $0.17 per pound to $0.24 for open fi eld, $0.32 for controlled en-vironment, $0.35 for specialty, loose, and $0.46 for specialty, packed.

An increase in the price of tomatoes will have a large impact on local distributors, Jungmeyer said, noting that tomatoes make up 32 percent of the produce imported by the more than 100 members of the FPAA.

“Th is town was built on tomatoes. If you see the ability of this town to sell tomatoes drop by 10, 20, or 30 percent, you’ll see a corresponding drop in the ability of these companies to employ people,” he said.

Th e detailsAccording to the Department of Com-

merce, the proposed agreement:• Applies to all fresh tomatoes imported

from Mexico, with the exception of toma-toes to be commercially processed before consumption.

• Includes a reporting mechanism re-quiring quarterly statements be submitted to the Department of Commerce certifying distributors are following the rules of the agreement.

• A working group of members drawn from the Mexican government and the to-mato industry “will regularly monitor and reconcile Mexican import data and identify and address any inconsistencies and irregu-larities.”

• Tomatoes imported under the agree-ment must be labeled: “Th ese Tomatoes Were Grown / Exported By a Signatory of the 2013 Suspension Agreement.” Tomatoes grown in Mexico for domestic consumption will be labeled “Prohibida Su Exportacion a los EUA/Not for Export to the United States.”

• Intentional violations of the agreement are to be reported to U.S. Customs and Bor-der Protection and will incur a civil penalty of, at minimum, the value of the shipped to-matoes at the reference price.

• Th e agreement has no scheduled ter-mination date.

NEWSBenefi ciary: VP 1 Loan LLC (54.011%), Daniel M. Abrams and Audrey Abrams (0.446%), June Behrendt (0.909%), SL Affi liated LLC (3.902%), Bruce Dennis Buckley and Alvia Virginia Buckley (1.355%), Harold J. Christ (2.273%), Tony Christiansen and Jonna Christensen (1.136%), Donald J. Fruchtman IRA (0.727%), DHF Corporation Retirement Trust (0.545%), Robert G. Furst & Associates Defi ned Benefi t Pension Plan (0.909%), David Furst and Hannah Furst (0.175%), Harvey Golden and Merylee Golden (1.736%), Stephen C. Gresser (0.909%), Bear Tooth Mountain Holdings LP (4.545%), Maryanne B. Krueger (0.4555), Maurice J. Lazarus (0.593%), Maurice J. Lazarus Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (0.903%), WCL857406 LLC (4.545%), Jeanne Lewis (0.909%), Linda Mayne and Stephen Mayne (0.227%), Investor CLOUT (2.727%), William J. Miller and Sandra B. Miller (2.273%), Katalin A. Rader IRA (0.818%), Linda A. Reeves (5.480%), Jayesh K. Shah IRA (0.909%), John K. Solheim and Brooke L. Solheim (0.204%)Jan M. Sterling (4.545%) and Jan M. Sterling IRA (0.834%)Auction time and date: 11 a.m. April 30, 2013 Trustee: Christopher M. McNichol, Gust Rosenfeld, 1 E. Washington St., Suite 1600, Phoenix

Koi Enterprises Inc. 715 E. Wetmore Road and 4402, 4404 and 4406 N. First Ave. 85719Tax parcel: 108-19-019H Original Principal: $1,200,000.00 Benefi ciary: Golden Southwest Financial Group Limited Partnership, San Antonio, Texas Auction time and date: 10 a.m. May 2, 2013 Trustee: Fred A. Farsjo, Gabroy Rollman & Bossé, 3507 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 111

LIENSFederal tax liens Cappsco International Corp., 805 S. Park Ave. Amount owed: $16,767.57.AAA Security Products Inc., 4101 S. Sixth Ave. Amount owed: $11,007.61. Chinampa LLC, 718 E. 46th St. Amount owed: $15,682.08. Ground Effects Landscaping Inc., 107 W. Sahuaro St. Amount owed: $9,278.12. M&S Hospitality LLC and Marvin R. Dodd, 5991 S. Placita Picacho. Amount owed: $1,837.72. Tron Mechanical Inc., 2010 W. Cassim Lane. Amount owed: $36,116.67. Perma-Glaze Inc., 1671 S. Research Loop Road. Amount owed: $3,444.57.Kustom Korner Yard Services LLC and Christopher J. Kindler, PO Box 1250, Vail 85641. Amount owed: $15,076.15. CDK Enterprises Inc., 10645 N. Oracle Road, Suite 121319, Oro Valley. Amount owed: $20,955.00. Rebecca Nolen Real Estate PLLC and Rebecca Parinello-Nolen, 688 W. Soaring Hawk Place Oro Valley. Amount owed: $8,190.13.Lynch Automotive Inc., 6847 E. Mary Drive. Amount owed: $1.965.74.

State liens (Liens of $1,000 or more fi led by the Arizona Department of Revenue or Arizona Department of Economic Security.)D.J. Williamson Enterprises Inc., 12441 Camino Del Garanon. Amount owed: $95,799.78.

Mechanics liens (Security interest liens of $1,000 or more fi led by those who have supplied labor or materials for property improvements.)

Builder Services Group Inc. doing business as Gale Contractor Services Division 10067, 3875 E. Michigan St., against DND Neffson Co., c/o General Growth Properties, PO Box 617905, Chicago, Ill. 60661. Property: 4500 N. Oracle Road #370. Amount owed: $13,111.08.

Release of federal liens Carniceria La Noria and Sanav Associates LLC, 704 E. Prince Road

Nelson J. Greer Painting Contractor Inc., 3945 E. Hayhurst Lane

A Dream Come True Preschool and Lopez-Fierro Investments LLC, 6163 S. Midvale Park Road

Formula I Ltd., 596 E. 23rd St.

Release of state liens PACE Electrical Construction Inc., PO Box 85340, 85745Vistoso Golf Course LLC, 955 W. Vistoso Highlands Drive, Oro Valley


TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

What the Cloud is and why you should careYou go on a working vacation, take your

laptop to the beach to knock off a few projects and are surprised to discover your escape from work is so complete you have no Internet access. Th ere’s no Wi-Fi on the beach and your smartphone connection is too weak to provide a hotspot, so you can’t receive new email or access the thousands of emails, and their attachments, you’ve carefully saved for years. As a result, you can’t get any work done. Welcome to the Cloud!

Your assistant makes a disturbing confession. At your direction, she deleted your (former) communication coordina-tor’s WordPress account last week so he couldn’t try to access the company’s website remotely. Th e problem is your assistant failed to assign his pages and posts to another account, so the last nine weeks of his website edits are gone! Welcome to the Cloud!

You get an emergency call from your security service telling you there’s been a break-in at your offi ce. All vital company fi les would be gone forever if not for the fact that you run a second backup over the Internet to a server in another city. Welcome to the Cloud!

Th ese examples provide three ways to understand what the Cloud is and why you should care. Not everyone agrees upon the defi nition of “the Cloud,” but these examples give you a way to understand it.

First, email. Simply put, email is usually delivered to your computer and/or tablet or smart-phone in one of two ways: POP (Post Offi ce Protocol) or IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol).

If you have POP email, (usually called POP3) new incoming email waits for you on a server, but when you download it, your email lives on your computer and/or smartphone. You can fi le each email and access it regardless of whether you have Internet access.

IMAP email works diff erently though the description here is simplifi ed. IMAP gives you access to your email fi les from your smartphone, laptop and/or desktop, but your email is stored in the Cloud. In

DAVE TEDLOCK

short, it’s stored on a server somewhere. If you have POP3 email, you can sit on

the beach with no Internet access or mobile phone service and read all the email – and all the attachments – you already have on fi le.

Th e Cloud also matters if you’re involved with a website that uses a Content Manage-ment System (CMS). Most websites live in the Cloud. In other words, they are hosted on off -site servers accessed over the Internet.

Compare Adobe Contribute with WordPress. Adobe Contribute typically works like this: First, the site is built using Adobe Dreamweaver. A copy of the site is saved on a onsite local computer and also shared over the Internet through Web hosting. People manage the site content using Contribute software installed on their computer.

WordPress, on the other hand, is Cloud software. Unlike Dreamweaver or Contrib-ute, WordPress software lives in the Cloud. Its powerful CMS lives on the site itself, also in the Cloud.

Edit in Contribute and you (temporar-ily) have a copy of the website page on your machine. Edit in WordPress and the page you are editing is in the Cloud. In Contrib-

ute, if you save a draft of a page, you save it to your machine. In WordPress, you save a draft to the Cloud.

Now, consider the example of the organization suff ering from a stolen fi le server and back-up fi les. Many small businesses use a fi le server to manage com-puter fi les and back up all those fi les, perhaps every night, to another computer or external hard drive in the same offi ce.

Some businesses, however, run their nightly backups using a Cloud service. New fi les get copied (updated) over the Internet to a server in some other location. Backing up using the Cloud, assuming the process is set up properly, defi nitely off ers greater protection.

Cloud computing extends to dozens of other areas. Whether you plan to get away from it all or thieves get away with all your computers, the Cloud can make a huge diff erence and give you a sunny outcome.

Contact Dave Tedlock, president of the website development and marketing company NetOutcomes, at [email protected] or (520) 325-6900, ext. 157. His Technically Speaking column appears regularly the third week of each month in Inside Tucson Business.

GOOD BUSINESS


Acclaimed violinist Joshua Bell will play in a one-night-only concert with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. Saturday (Feb. 16) in the Music Hall at the Tucson Convention Center, 260 S. Church Ave. Called the “poet of the violin,” Bell, now 45 came to national attention when he made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 17.

Th e Tucson concert will include “Overture to Th e Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream Wedding March” and “Violin Concerto” by Men-delssohn.

A few individual seat tickets may still be available, priced from $44 to $69. Buy them through Tucson Symphony’s website, http://tucsonsymphony.org.

ArtJust in time for La Fiesta de los Vaque-

ros, the Tucson Jewish Community Center, 3800 E. River Road, has an exhibit of photographs by Edlynne Sillman depicting cowboys and the ranch world. It will be up in the JCC Fine Art Gallery through March 13. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Th ursdays and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays and Sundays.

Also new in galleries this week is a show at the Davis Dominguez Gallery, 154 E. Sixth St., of “magic realist” works by painter Susan Conaway and abstract sculpture by John Davis, who has done some signature public art works for the City of Tucson and Tucson International Airport as well as other cities, including Denver and Albu-querque, and commercial clients including Chase Bank. Th eir show will be up through March 23. Th e gallery is open from 11 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

DanceWhen Ballet Tucson an-

nounced its season last year, one event stood out for me above all others: “Passionately Piaz-zolla!” It pairs the music of Tango godfather Astor Piazzolla, with dance, spoken word and other elements for a truly unique event. Th ere are four perfor-mances this weekend, at 7:30 tonight and Saturday night and at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday in the Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. Tickets are priced from

$35 to $41, buy them online at www.ballettucson.org.

FilmTh e fi fth chapter of the action movie

series “Die Hard” opens this weekend, once again with Bruce Willis. “A Good Day To Die Hard” this time introduces us to Willis character’s grown child for a potential series hand-off .

Meanwhile at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway, you can catch screenings of the 2013 Oscar nominated short fi lms before the Academy Awards on Feb. 24. Th e animated, documentary and live action shorts packages will all be screened twice leading up to the awards. Go to www.LoftCinema.com for the details and impress your friends by seeing these excellent fi lms.

Contact Herb Stratford at [email protected]. Stratford teaches Arts Management at the University of Arizona. His column appears weekly in Inside Tucson Business.

ARTS & CULTURE

Violin ‘poet’ performs withTucson Symphony Saturday

OUT OF THE OFFICEON THE MENU

Lovers of craft beer have much to celebrate in Southern Arizona, and fellow hop-heads have many options to consider when looking for a home-grown ale, lager, porter or stout. But when you get a closer look at some of the beers being drawn from Tucson taps, you might wonder if chefs are at work alongside the brew masters to produce what could be called gastronomy in a glass.

Has craft beer become part of the culinary community?

Absolutely, says Myles Stone, one of the co-founders of Borderlands Brewing Company, 119 E. Toole Ave., who looks to his own back yard for epicurean inspiration. In fact, he has crafted two beers with ingredients more common in kitchens than in kegs.

Made with the fruits from prickly pear cacti, Stone’s Prickly Pear Wheat off ers up “a light wheat fl avor and subtle nuances of citrus fruit.” Somewhat surprisingly, though, since prickly pear is often associ-ated with the sweetness found in its syrups and jellies, Stone reports the raw properties of the desert fruit are not sweet, which he says works well in beer. Once the appropri-ate balance has been achieved, Stone says prickly pear is an ideal companion for soups, salads and cheese.

In keeping with his passion for desert vegetation, Stone has used wood from mesquite trees in much the same way a pit master would use it to prepare barbeque. His Smoke and Irons is a Scottish ale brewed with mesquite-smoked barley, bringing a smoky essence and rich amber color to the brew. Stone laughs off the number of “smoke-enhancing fl avor products” that are available in the commer-cial market, choosing to use wood from

native mesquites. “Th ere’s something about a natural smoke fl avor that you just can’t reproduce,” he says.

Not too far from Borderlands is Barrio Brewing Company, 800 E. 16th St., where owner Dennis Arnold is using spirits and sweets for his seasonal inspirations.

Last year, Arnold procured several whiskey barrels from the Jack Daniels distillery in Tennessee, which were still “soaking wet” when they arrived at Barrio. He ultimately used them for brewing of his house ale, and when the whiskey fl avors imparted the beer, Arnold knew he was on to something,

later calling it “the most signifi cant and unique beer that I’ve ever brewed in my 22 years of brewing.” How effi cient — a single sip vehicle for a shot and a beer.

For a dessert course, Arnold says chocolate and coff ee are naturals for beer, especially in a dark and creamy brew like a stout. During the holidays, Arnold’s custom-ers delighted in his Mocha Java Stout, featuring high doses of espresso, fat-free Dutch cocoa and lactose which are added to his standard stout recipe, making this, as he says, “the breakfast beer of champions.”

If Stone and Arnold keep going down this road, it’s quite possible we could get all of our major food groups in a single pint. Cheers!

Contact Matt Russell, whose day job is

CEO of Russell Public Communications, at

[email protected]. Russell is also

the host of “On the Menu Live” that airs 4-5

p.m. Saturdays on KNST 97.1-FM/790-AM

and does the Weekend Watch segment of the

“Buckmaster Show” from noon-1 p.m.

Fridays on KVOI 1030-AM.

Gastronomy in a single glass —Tucson brewers combine it all

MATT RUSSELL HERB STRATFORD


REMEMBERING TUCSON

Jack Donovan; a career taking Tucson out to the ball gameEditor’s note: Th is is a special extra edition of

Mary Peachin’s monthly feature that usually

appears the fi rst week of each month. Growing up on a 20-acre homestead on

Staten Island in New York, Jack Donovan remembers, “My parents were dirt poor” but he also has fond memories of his father, John “Jack” Donovan, who loved being a cowboy and enjoyed rodeo calf roping.

“My father was an incredible man. Having only a stump for one arm, he did everything one-armed, including playing baseball and roping,” his son recalls, explaining, “When he was a playful eight years old, the Army inadvertently dropped a half-pound shell along a parade route. John and a buddy thought there might be copper inside. When the boys put a hammer and chisel to the shell, it explod-ed.” Donovan ends the recollection with, “Dad could do anything one-armed.”

John Donovan fenced his Staten Island land and repaired an old, heatless home which was shared with an extended family that included Jack’s Aunt Eileen, Uncle Steve and their children Josephine and Steven.

“I was the only child,” Donovan says, remembering that his parents told him they had “hit perfection” when he was born. Th e reaility was that Jack’s birth was diffi cult for his mother, Edith, who was advised not to have any more children.

As he grew up, Jack remembers the farm animals, including chickens and goats and folks driving by just to look at the animals.

In the late 1930s, a friend asked John Donovan to go to go Ocala, Fla., to fi nd and establish a ranch. Th e area in north central Florida was often compared to Lexington, Ky., in terms of horse breeding and cattle ranching. Donovan couldn’t fi nd a property he would recommend there but he did hear about an available place on the eastern slopes of Arizona’s Chiricahua Mountains.

Visiting the area, John described a “wonderland of rocks” in a 1938 letter to Edith. He also talked of the “zeal and tenacity” it would take to ranch the area.

Fighter planes from Davis-Monthan Airport, as it was called then, would spook the animals while practicing maneuvers. Getting supplies meant trips to Lordsburg, N.M., or Douglas or to Tucson to buy western wear from Porters.

John Donovan persisted, running the Z-Bar-T ranch for four years before returning to Staten Island. He would return to Arizona from time-to-time. A talented tenor, he would literally sing for his board and room at the old Santa Rita Hotel.

Young Jack Donovan was drafted out of high school by the Los Angeles Dodgers but turned the off er down to accept a full schol-arship to Seton Hall University playing both basketball and baseball. He was an NCAA All-American in baseball as a junior.

Ultimately, the decision of whether to make a career dribbling a ball or swinging a bat was made for him when the California Angels picked him in the fi rst round in 1971.

After fi ve years pitching for the

Angels and the Dodgers organizations, Donovan moved to the front offi ce with the Angels. He started in 1976 as assistant general manager of the El Paso Diablos minor league team and a year later was promoted by the Angels to an assistant farm director and assistant scouting director. At 28 years-old he was the youngest executive in Major League Baseball at the time.

At the end of the 1977 season in October, Donovan came to Tucson as general manager of the Pacifi c Coast League Tucson Toros, which was then a farm club for the Texas Rangers.

Th e Toros’ ownership group, which included homebuilder Bill Estes, Davis Burke (baseball player Ron Hassey’s father in law) and eight or nine others, wanted to do a lot of promotions during the games.

“‘We want to have fun and have this fi eld ‘rock,’ the money is secondary’,” Donovan recalls being told.

Th e public address announcer was local radio announcer Bob Lee, who at the time worked for the company that had just launched top 40 station KRQ. One day Donovan heard Lee promote a new song by Queen called “We Are the Champions.”

“I asked him if he could change a few words,” Donovan recalls. “Th at night we played the song for the fi rst time at the Toros games at Hi Corbett fi eld. It is still one of the most popular sport songs. We had more than a 200,000 fan season and were one of the top teams in Pacifi c Coast League. We changed the culture of what was happening at Hi Corbett fi eld.”

In 1999, Donovan took over operations for the Toros’ successors, the Tucson Sidewinders. Th e Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago White Sox then tapped Donovan to manage their Spring Training operations at was then Tucson Electric Park and is now Kino Stadium.

Donovan had an impact on both MLB franchises in his fi ve years with them. As evidence, he has a 2001 World Series ring from the Diamondbacks and a diamond watch he got from the White Sox.

Donovan left Tucson in 2005 and went to Portland, Ore., where he was part of an

investment group that acquired a struggling junior ice hockey team, the Winterhawks. After three years rebuilding the team, often using promotion techniques adapted from minor league baseball, the investment group sold the hockey team and Donovan returned to Tucson.

Among his latest endeavors, in 2012 Donovan joined the sports agency Bom-bastic Industries Group (B.I.G.), heading up the baseball division. Among his projects is bringing teams from Asian countries to Tucson for spring training. So far, most of the success has been in bringing in teams from South Korea. Th e Hanwha Eagles will wrap up their six-week stay next week and the NC Dinos, an expansion team that will start playing this year in Korea, is in Tucson until March 5.

Donovan also continues to work with teams from Mexico coming up to play in Tucson.

And although Tucson no longer hosts MLB teams for Spring Training, a couple of exhibition games will be played at Kino Stadium next month. Th e Diamondbacks will play the San Diego Padres at 1:05 p.m. March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, and the Dodgers and Chicago Cubs will play at 1:05 p.m. March 21 in a benefi t for the Christina-Tay-lor Green Memorial Foundation, which honors the life and memory of the 9 year-old who was the youngest of six victims killed in the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting in Tucson.

When he thinks back, foremost in Dono-van’s memories are the promotions at Hi Corbett Field. Th ey included making a

banana split that extended between bases. Afterward they let 150 children on the fi eld who gobbled it up in less than a minute. For four years, the Toros held a “Jalopy Night” in which nine cars were given away — one after each inning — thanks to dealers Jim Click, R.B. “Buck’ O’Rielly, Paul Weitman, John Matthews and others.

Donovan also remembers former Tucson Mayor Jim Corbett and University of Arizona basketball coach Fred Snowden sitting behind home plate and their quite vocal advice to Toros manager Rich Donnelly. Th at prompted Donovan to create “Manager for the Night” promotion in which fans were invited to apply by explaining why they thought they were qualifi ed.

Th e winning managers signed a one-game contract, were paid $100 and were required to give a pre- and post-game news conference.

Donovan remembers the fi rst “Manager for the Night,” Art Lundenberg, “was so nervous that he tripped coming out of the dugout on his way to the pitcher’s mound. We were playing the Albuquerque Dukes managed by Del Crandall, a former big league player. Years later Art called to tell me that his house burned. He risked his life to run back to rescue his scrap book.”

Jack and his wife, Connie, whom he married in 1972, have two children. Daughter Erin lives in Maine with her three children where she writes a blog and has a contract with Nickelodeon. Son Shaun is a Navy SEAL.

Donovan also enjoys getting out on the links. At one time he had a “plus” handicap but he stays busy enough off the course that he now plays to a 4.

Do you have a historical Tucson

story to share? Contact Mary Levy Peachin at

[email protected]. Her historical columns

usually appear the fi rst week of each month

in Inside Tucson Business.

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MEDIAKFMA now ‘Rock 92’ butit’s no format change By David Hatfi eldInside Tucson Business

Arizona Lotus Corp.’s KFMA 92.1-FM/101.3-FM has done a little sprucing up on its brand, including a new logo, now calling itself “Rock 92 KFMA.” Previously the station was calling itself “New Rock.”

General Manager Steve Groesbeck isn’t making too much of the change saying it’s more a refl ection of what the station already is rather than a change for the station.

He says the music mix will continue to be a cross between what’s known in the industry as an active rock music, mainly current rock songs, mixed with music going back to the 1990s. Th at format has been successful for KFMA but Groesbeck said it made no sense when an announcer would play an older song the say the station’s old tag line, “new rock KFMA.”

Meanwhile, Lotus’ other rock station, KLPX 96.1-FM remains classic rock.

Names in news Th e morning radio show of Alex “El

Genio” Lucas wasn’t off the air in the Tucson market for long. As of this week Lotus Corp.’s ESPN Deportes KTKT 990-AM is airing Lucas’ show from 4 to 10 a.m. weekdays and 6 to 10 a.m. Saturdays. Although the show is a 50-50 mix of music and talk — focusing on thought-provoking and inspiring stories — General Sales Manager Tara Torres Hungate says it will fi t nicely on the sports station with regular contributions from sports commentators David Faitelson and Antonio Rosique focusing on soccer. Lucas’ Los Angeles-based syndicated show had been the top-rated show on Clear Channel’s La Preciosa KTZR 1450-AM until it was dropped last month as part of a corporate in move in several markets.

Baseball Wildcats on TVTh e University of Arizona Wildcats

baseball team — whose fi rst home stand of the 2013 season is this weekend at Hi Corbett Field — will have at least seven games televised on the Pac-12 Networks this season. Th at’s more games than any other team in the conference.

Th e schedule of Arizona games:• March 17, Sunday, noon — Oregon State at Arizona

• March 22, Friday, 6 p.m. — Arizona at Oregon

• April 16, Tuesday, 6 p.m. — Arizona State at Arizona

• April 19, Friday, 7 p.m. — Arizona at Stanford

• May 12, Sunday, 3 p.m. — Arizona at UCLA

• May 19, Sunday, Sunday, noon — Ari-zona at Arizona State

• May 26, Sunday, noon — USC at Arizona

All totaled the Pac-12 Networks are planning to televise 30 games live, starting with USC-UCLA at 3 p.m. March 10. Despite the fact the Wildcats are the defending NCAA champions, UCLA is this year’s pre-season favorite in the conference.

Analysts hired for the Pac-12 Networks include former UA player and six-time Major League Gold Glove winner J.T. Snow along with Kevin Stocker, a former Washington Huskies shortstop. Play-by-play annuncers for Pac-12 Networks baseball are Ted Robinson, Roxy Bern-stein and JB Long.

In addition to the games that were announced, the Pac-12 Networks has set aside four other games, one on May 4 and three at the end of the season that will be determined closer to air time.

Chaparral shoot-out Old Tucson was originally built as a

movie studio but the big TV series that put it on the map was “High Chapparal,” which ran on NBC from 1967 to 1971. Th is weekend the original Ranch House set that was used on the series will be the venue for a Shoot-Out at the Chapparal competition this weekend in which gunfi ghters and Western characters will compete in a performance competition in front of judges from the fi lm and performance industries.

Th e competition will include points for overall show content, characters, presenta-tion, acting skills, wardrobe, showmanship and safety.

In addition to the competition, Old Tucson will have its usualy stunt shows, living history presentations and a multi-media stroll down movie memory lane.

Old Tucson, 201 S. Kinney Road in Tucson Mountain Park, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Single-day admission costs $16.95 for anyone 12 and older, $10.95 for children ages 4 to 11, free for children 3 or younger. Th ere are discounts for military, seniors and members of AAA auto club. Season passes valied through May 27 are available for $49.95 and come with some discounts that can be used inside the park.

Contact David Hatfi eld at

dhatfi [email protected] or (520) 295-4237.

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Using the Internet to make decisions about what medications to take during preg-nancy or breastfeeding may lead to poor choices, the Arizona Pregnancy Riskline warns women.

Th e Pregnancy Riskline is a not-for-prof-it, telephone-based service at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. Its services are free and confi dential.

Published in the Jan. 29 issue of the journal Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, the study evaluated 25 active Inter-net websites, comparing their lists of safe medications to risk assessments in TERIS (Teratogen Information System), an evi-dence-based system that uses the consen-sus of experts in the fi eld.

For almost half of the medications listed on the sites, scientifi c databases were un-able to provide a risk assessment due to lim-ited published scientifi c data. Information also was inconsistent between websites.

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GOVERNMENTCounty recognized for move to tobacco-free environment

Arizonans Concerned About Smoking has awarded Pima County with a Health Leadership Award for its recent move to a tobacco-free environment.

Th e award was presented to Pima County Human Resources Director Allyn Bulzomi at the organization’s fourth annual awards ceremony in Mesa.

Th e Pima County Board of Supervisors in November approved a measure to make all county properties tobacco-free.

As of Jan. 1, smoking and tobacco use is forbidden inside county buildings and on properties owned or operated by the county.

Th e policy includes cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, snuff , water pipes and e-cigarettes.

City wins award for budgeting work

Th e City of Tucson has received the Dis-tinguished Budget Presentation Award for its current budget from the Government Finance Offi cers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA).

Th e award is given to cities that show a commitment to meeting the highest princi-ples of governmental budgeting. Th e City of Tucson’s budget met nationally recognized guidelines which are designed to assess how well a budget serves as a policy docu-ment, fi nancial plan, operations guide and communications device.

TRANSPORTATIONArea gas prices up over last month

Th e price of regular unleaded gas has in-creased in the Tucson area by 34 cents over the past month, according to AAA.

Th e average price for a gallon of gas climbed to $3.23 as of Wednesday (Feb. 13), up from $2.89 a month earlier.

Despite the increase, Tucson still has the lowest gas prices in the state. Average costs statewide were $3.41, up from $3.06 a month ago.

Th e highest average cost for a gallon of regular unleaded gas in Arizona was in Scottsdale, where it was $3.58.

Th e national wide average was $3.61, up from $3.51 last month.

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Growth advice: Move beyond the familiar – try something new

In a speech to his college’s bachelors degree candidates last year, Richard C. Levin, who for the past 19 years has led Yale University as its president — and will retire at the end of this academic year — off ered valuable advice to college-bound students on how to benefi t the most from the experiences lying ahead. His message was not only directly relevant to the graduating seniors, but virtually for everyone else – even those who graduated from college decades ago.

His message was about lifelong learning and growth.

Levin urged the graduates to stretch themselves with their subject choices and sample widely. He encouraged them to take some courses in fi elds that are entirely outside the range of their past experiences. One will not only emerge as a more broadly educated person, but will also stand a better chance of discovering an unsuspect-ed passion which could help shape the future course of life and view of the world.

He said by studying philosophy, for example, one learns to reason more vigorously and discern more readily what constitutes a logically consistent argument and what does not. And, you will study texts which wrestle directly with the deepest questions of how one should live.

Professors of literature, music, and art history teach students how to read, listen, and see more closely. Whether the students major in these subjects or not, their appreciation of what is true and beautiful may be forever enriched.

Years ago, Levin taught economics at Yale College, the university’s undergradu-ate program. He always began by telling students the course would change their lives. Why? Because economics opens oneself to an entirely new and diff erent way of understanding of how the world works. Economics will not prescribe how society must organize or distribute the fruits of human labor. But, it will provide a new way to think about these perpetually important questions.

Similarly, each of the other social sciences psychology, political science, anthropology, sociology, and linguistics will provide a diff erent perspective on human experience in society. Levin’s suggestion that students stretch themselves is not limited to the classroom; it applies to extracurricular activities and even to the friends they choose. A dazzling array of extracurricular opportunities will open and

one of them may turn into an enduring passion.

And, if the friends chosen in college come exclusively from the same kind of background as the students’, half the value of a college education will have

been forfeited. Th e students were encour-aged to seek out friends with diff erent histories and interests to learn the most from the people least like themselves.

Levin’s astute advice may result in a paradigm shift for both students and parents. It may cause one to look at things diff erently when a roommate or some courses desired do not come about.

“Today, because the world is so highly interconnected and interdependent, you will have the added responsibility of acting as global citizens,” said Levin. “Your generation, more than any other that has gone before, will need deep knowledge of an intimate engagement with cultures and societies very diff erent from your own.

“You should seriously consider taking advantage of one of the many programs your college will off er to work or study abroad. Such an experience will stretch you in just the way I am recommending more generally: It will force you to see yourself from a diff erent perspective, and to see oth-ers free from preconceptions,” he adds.

True wealth is not based on the bal-ances in our investment accounts, the size of our vacation home, or the type of car we drive. It’s based on the experiences we’ve had and the individuals who we’ve shared our experiences with. All of us are equal to the sum of the life experiences that we have had. From our interactions with our family and friends, to the books we’ve read, to the places we’ve traveled and lived down to the movies, television shows and music we’ve enjoyed, don’t just live life, experience it.

It’s been said many times but oft worth repeating, yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift from God, that’s why we call it “the present”.

Contact Drew Blease, president and

founder of Blease Financial Services, 7358 N.

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Southern Arizona presenceAlcoa Inc (Huck Fasteners) AA 9.10 8.96 0.14 7.97 10.75AMR Corp (American Airlines) AAMRQ 1.30 1.22 0.08 0.36 1.66Augusta Resource Corp (Rosemont Mine) AZC 2.69 2.83 -0.14 1.48 3.32Bank Of America Corp BAC 12.17 11.93 0.24 6.72 12.42Bank of Montreal (M&I Bank) BMO 62.78 63.28 -0.50 50.95 64.79BBVA Compass BBVA 10.29 9.71 0.58 5.30 10.57Berkshire Hathaway (Geico, Long Cos) BRK-B* 97.97 97.83 0.14 77.89 99.00Best Buy Co Inc BBY 15.12 15.91 -0.79 11.20 27.95BOK Financial Corp (Bank of Arizona) BOKF 57.90 57.19 0.71 52.23 60.00Bombardier Inc* (Bombardier Aerospace) BBDB 4.07 4.08 -0.01 2.97 4.93CB Richard Ellis Group CBG 24.50 21.85 2.65 14.97 24.85Citigroup Inc C 44.00 43.05 0.95 24.61 44.68Comcast Corp CMCSA 40.13 38.73 1.40 28.09 42.00Community Health Sys (Northwest Med Cntrs) CYH 41.71 39.12 2.59 19.50 41.79Computer Sciences Corp CSC 46.81 45.75 1.06 22.19 46.99Convergys Corp CVG 16.34 16.98 -0.64 12.13 16.55Costco Wholesale Corp COST 101.63 101.70 -0.07 81.98 105.97CenturyLink (Qwest Communications) CTL 41.69 40.80 0.89 36.52 43.43Cvs/Caremark (CVS pharmacy) CVS 51.06 51.24 -0.18 43.08 52.73Delta Air Lines DAL 14.78 14.47 0.31 8.42 14.90Dillard Department Stores DDS 87.29 87.02 0.27 47.92 89.98Dover Corp (Sargent Controls & Aerospace) DOV 71.61 71.31 0.30 50.27 71.38DR Horton Inc DHI 23.83 23.44 0.39 13.45 24.66Freeport-McMoRan (Phelps Dodge) FCX 35.64 36.09 -0.45 30.54 44.74Granite Construction Inc GVA 36.51 35.70 0.81 21.38 36.90Home Depot Inc HD 67.45 66.67 0.78 45.65 68.15Honeywell Intl Inc HON 70.18 69.92 0.26 52.21 70.79IBM IBM 200.09 201.02 -0.93 181.85 211.79Iron Mountain IRM 34.51 34.50 0.01 27.10 37.70Intuit Inc INTU 61.44 62.91 -1.47 53.38 64.47Journal Communications (KGUN 9, KMXZ) JRN 5.50 5.55 -0.05 3.94 5.85JP Morgan Chase & Co JPM 48.68 48.61 0.07 30.83 49.45Kaman Corp (Electro-Optics Develpmnt Cntr) KAMN 36.79 36.49 0.30 27.96 38.62KB Home KBH 19.82 18.47 1.35 6.46 20.04Kohls Corp KSS 46.60 46.25 0.35 41.35 55.25Kroger Co (Fry's Food Stores) KR 28.46 27.86 0.60 20.98 28.80Lee Enterprises (Arizona Daily Star) LEE 1.36 1.29 0.07 1.06 1.81Lennar Corporation LEN 40.83 40.70 0.13 22.01 43.22Lowe's Cos (Lowe's Home Improvement) LOW 39.77 38.67 1.10 24.76 39.98Loews Corp (Ventana Canyon Resort) L 44.08 43.92 0.16 37.58 44.13Macerich Co (Westcor, La Encantada) MAC 61.88 61.51 0.37 53.18 62.83Macy's Inc M 39.96 39.48 0.48 32.31 42.17Marriott Intl Inc MAR 41.18 40.66 0.52 33.93 41.84Meritage Homes Corp MTH 42.56 42.10 0.46 24.07 44.85Northern Trust Corp NTRS 53.22 52.39 0.83 41.11 53.50Northrop Grumman Corp NOC 65.76 65.20 0.56 56.59 71.25Penney, J.C. JCP 19.61 19.38 0.23 15.69 42.85Pulte Homes Inc (Pulte, Del Webb) PHM 20.23 19.69 0.54 7.63 21.97Raytheon Co (Raytheon Missile Systems) RTN 53.97 53.42 0.55 48.41 59.34Roche Holdings AG (Ventana Medical Systems) RHHBY 55.71 55.38 0.33 38.63 56.16Safeway Inc SWY 20.74 19.39 1.35 14.73 23.16Sanofi -Aventis SA SNY 49.53 47.34 2.19 33.03 49.56Sears Holdings (Sears, Kmart, Customer Care) SHLD 47.62 47.40 0.22 38.40 85.90SkyWest Inc SKYW 13.24 12.89 0.35 6.25 13.93Southwest Airlines Co LUV 11.61 11.47 0.14 7.76 11.76Southwest Gas Corp SWX 45.02 44.83 0.19 39.01 46.08Stantec Inc STN 39.45 39.98 -0.53 25.77 42.55Target Corp TGT 62.69 62.69 0.00 51.51 65.80TeleTech Holdings Inc TTEC 18.58 18.66 -0.08 14.04 18.95Texas Instruments Inc TXN 33.72 33.56 0.16 26.06 34.29Time Warner Inc (AOL) TWX 52.85 52.01 0.84 33.62 53.65Ual Corp (United Airlines) UAL 26.19 25.32 0.87 17.45 26.64Union Pacifi c Corp UNP 135.29 133.24 2.05 104.08 136.19Apollo Group Inc (University of Phoenix) APOL 19.05 20.05 -1.00 18.36 54.38US Airways Group Inc LCC 14.66 14.56 0.10 6.78 15.64US Bancorp (US Bank) USB 33.93 33.61 0.32 28.26 35.46Wal-Mart Stores Inc (Wal-Mart, Sam's Club) WMT 71.39 71.31 0.08 57.18 77.60Walgreen Co WAG 41.48 41.44 0.04 28.53 41.95Wells Fargo & Co WFC 35.13 34.97 0.16 29.80 36.60Western Alliance Bancorp (Alliance Bank) WAL 13.29 12.75 0.54 7.80 13.33Zions Bancorp (National Bank of Arizona) ZION 24.74 24.04 0.70 17.45 24.92Data Source: Dow Jones Market Watch

*Quotes in U.S. dollars, except Bombardier is Canadian dollars.


theon,” he said.Tucson was “never in the ball game” for

the expansion because the site has too many constraints.

Urban encroachment from the south and increased traffi c on Hughes Access Road threatened Raytheon’s safety buff ers and other federal mandates for space.

Huckelberry said those conditions ulti-mately prompted county supervisors “to take some pretty bold steps, to remove the restraints that prevent Raytheon from ex-panding.”

South of the site, the county bought $5.9 million worth of “developable” property. Also, $9 million in funding has been secured to relocate Hughes Access Road further south.

When these two major projects are com-plete, in addition to some other county-driven improvements, “our largest employer will no longer have constraints that would restrict them from expanding their opera-tions in Tucson,” Huckelberry said.

Huckelberry and Tucson Assistant City Manager Albert Elis were keynote speakers at the Feb. 7 Pima County Real Estate Research Council’s “Real Estate Matters” forum.

Elias said the city also has begun to focus

INSIDE REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION

Economic development re-emerges as a priority By Roger YohemInside Tucson Business

Nothing like a great recession, tight mu-nicipal budgets and a little wake-up call to drive home the point that “real estate mat-ters” in this community.

Lingering economic challenges are be-hind a renewed emphasis on protecting lo-cal jobs and promoting economic develop-ment. Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry calls it the “basic fundamen-tals of employment.”

It is crucial to act now so that there is hope to have “a more competitive founda-tion” in place for the future.

Specifi cally, that “foundation” is a corri-dor of opportunity south of Tucson Interna-tional Airport between interstates 19 and 10. Th e western sector is anchored by 11,000 jobs at Raytheon Missile Systems and the eastern sector by about 8,000 jobs at the Uni-versity of Arizona Science and Tech Park.

“Some 40,000 jobs are tied to this corri-dor, some type of manufacturing, technolo-gy and research that drives basic secondary and service employment. How do we make sure this employment corridor is important now and in the future?” said Huckelberry.

For starters, county offi cials realized they had to take care of Raytheon, the region’s largest employer. Th e company’s 2010 deci-sion to set up a new line in Alabama instead of locally cost Pima County about 3,000 to 4,000 jobs, Huckelberry said.

“It was a wake-up call that we were vul-nerable to having that employment base shrink or go away. So we began some long-range fundamental discussions with Ray-

THE PULSE: TUCSON REAL ESTATE

2/4/2013 1/28/2013

Median Price $135,850 $150,000Active Listings 5,112 5,129New Listings 443 393Pending Sales 468 439Homes Closed 126 250Source: Long Realty Research Center

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Paul Kraft, left, president of the Pima County Real Estate Council, with Pima County Administra-tor Huckelberry, center, and Tucson Assistant City Manager Albert Elias.

more on economic development. Specifi -cally, he cited a series of initiatives that helped developers Rob Caylor and Art Wad-lund decide to build a $16 million Class A mixed-use offi ce tower downtown at 1 E. Broadway.

In addition, the city hired Juan Francisco Padrés to serve as an economic specialist for international trade.

Despite moderate revenue growth that “still challenges the city in many ways, the long-term outlook for the local economy is pretty positive,” Elias said. “Although we can’t lead on these economic issues, we cer-tainly can be assertive, to be of assistance at the right time to the right individuals.”

Team SchwiebertIn an eff ort to increase their market pres-

ence, Plaza Companies has made two moves that involve the father-son team of Howard and Daniel Schwiebert.

Howard, who has been with the Scotts-dale-based company since Feb. 2012, was promoted from senior portfolio manager to Vice President of Brokerage Services and Business Development. His son Daniel, a 2011 graduate from the University of Arizo-na Eller College of Management, has joined the company as an associate.

“Our new focus is to expand our business in the Tucson market. We want new busi-ness across the spectrum of brokerage, management and development,” said How-ard.

Plaza Companies is a full-service real es-tate fi rm that specializes in medical offi ce, senior living, and bioscience properties.

Daniel holds a degree in marketing and will apply those skills in his new position. His prior career experience includes Prime Group, 350 N. Harrison Road, in the multi-family market.

Sales and leases • Allglass LLC leased 6,056 square feet at

3496 S. Dodge, Suite 110 from Bioptics Build-ing LLC, represented by Ron Zimmerman with Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. Th e ten-ant was represented by Paul Hooker with Pi-cor Commercial Real Estate Services.

• Holben, Martin & White Consulting Engineers leased 4,494 square feet at 3501 E. Speedway, Suite 225, from Monte V LLC, represented by Michael Gross of Tucson Re-alty & Trust. Th e tenant was represented by Dean Cotlow of Cotlow Company.

• Sterling Investment Managementleased 3,489 square feet at 6262 N. Swan Road, Suite 210 from Skyline Corporate Center LLC, represented by Doug Marsh and Lori Casey with Oxford Realty Advisors. Th e tenant was represented by Tom Nieman with Picor Commercial Real Estate Services.

• Safety Dynamics leased 2,538 square feet at 3845 N. Business Center Drive, Suite 115 from NTBC Trust Partners. Rob Glaser and Paul Hooker with Picor Commercial Real Estate Services handled the transaction.

• Breen, Olson and Trenton Law Firmleased 2,456 square feet at 4720 N. Oracle Road from Oracle Offi ce Park Associates, represented by Buzz Isaacson of CBRE.

• United Gospel Fellowship leased 2,330 square-feet at 3710 S. Park Ave., Suites 701 - 703, from Gateway Industrial Park LLC. Paul Hooker, Pat Welchert and Jeff Zellet with Picor Commercial Real Estate Services handled the transaction.

• Hyunjoo Oh and Taego Park, doing business as Th e Tutoring Center, leased 1,400 square feet at 12142 N. Rancho Vistoso Blvd. in Suite B-110 from SB & FB Vistoso Plaza LLC, represented by Robert Nolan of Oxford Realty. Th e tenant was represented by Chuck Corriere of Keller Williams Southern Arizona.

• Subway leased 1,370 square feet at 3605 W. Cortaro Farms Road, Suite 157, from Cor-taro Investors LLC, represented by Craig Finfrock of Commercial Retail Advisors.

• Joseph Hoang Kim Pham, Maria Bong Th i Ngo Pham, and Mary Da-Th ao Ngo Pham leased 1,333 square feet at 7143 E. Tanque Verde Road from Reseda Colonia LLC, represented by David Hammack of Volk Company Commercial Real Estate.

• Saguaro Independent Medical Exam-iners leased 1,332 square feet at 2224 N. Craycroft Road from 2222 Craycroft LLC, represented by Jon O’Shea and Rob Fis-chrup of Vast Commercial Real Estate. Th e tenant was represented by David Montijo and Damian Wilkinson of CBRE.

• Canyon Health LLC leased 1,300 square feet at Craycroft Plaza, 1011 N. Craycroft Road, from Larsen Baker, self-represented by Andy Seleznov.

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In business circles the exchanging of news and ideas is called networking. When we in the media get involved, we’re blabbermouths. We want to tell everybody everything we can about things.

Th is week, I want to tell you about two things we want to blab about at Inside Tucson Business.

If you’re a regular reader, one you’ve already know about. It’s our annual call for nominations for Up & Comers. Th is is the last time you’ll see me writing about nominations this year because the deadline is almost upon us — it’s 5 p.m. Monday. (Feb. 18).

For those who might have missed it, Up & Comers is Inside Tucson Business’ annual recognition of people who, while still early in the careers, already have made a signifi cant impact within their industry or in the Tucson region. In short, we’re trying to fi nd Tucson’s rising stars.

Th ere is no specifi c age requirement, although we do ask for age on the nomination form. We’ve had a few honorees in the past who are in their young 40s but most are younger than that.

From your nominations, nine people will be selected by Inside Tucson Business and a group of former honorees to be profi led in a special section to be published April 12. We’ll follow that up with a special recognition reception.

Th is is the 11th year for Up & Comers. It was something started before I got here but it has become one of my favorite things we do.

Reading the special section and attending the event is inspirational. Each year I am reassured that there are people who will make the Tucson region thrive.

It starts with your nomination, which we’ve tried to make as painless as possible this year. Go to our website, www.InsideTucsonBusiness.com, click on the “Submit your Up & Comers” in the right-hand column and fi ll out the form.

More blabbingTh e second thing I want to tell you is something new here at

Inside Tucson Business. We all like to keep up on people and what they’re doing — promotions, new jobs, awards, etc. Now we’re going to post all People in Action notices online at our website, www.InsideTucsonBusiness.com. In fact, we’re going to let you do it.

You will fi nd the new People in Action feature in the right-hand column on our home page. It will be continuously updated as submissions are received.

And how do you submit them? Right below the feature is a submission feature. Just fi ll out the form and, hopefully, include a photo. Th at’s it. We’ll do a quick verifi cation of the announcement and once that’s done it will be posted to the website for all to see. No need for a press release or even an email. (Please note we’re Inside Tucson Business so announce-ments from this region are what we’re looking for.)

Th e People in Action feature will continue to be a part of the weekly printed Inside Tucson Business but it will be condensed version of what is online.

Whether it’s an Up & Comer and or a People in Action, tell us about them. We love to blab. And celebrate.

Contact David Hatfi eld at dhatfi [email protected] or

(520) 295-4237.

EDITORIAL

DAVID HATFIELD

BIZ BUZZ

We want to blab about good things

EDITORIAL

Money needed for Common Core StandardsWhile you’ve been busy minding your business the

past three years, Arizona educators have been gearing up to implement what’s known as Common Core Standards. In a nutshell, they are a set of standards all public school students across the state — indeed, all students in 46 participating states and the District of Columbia — must meet.

Th e new standards, which were approved by the Arizona Board of Education in June 2010, are set to go into eff ect in English language arts and mathematics starting with the 2014-2015 school year. For the most part there are specifi c standards that students must meet at each grade level.

For instance, one standard in language arts a graduating 12th grader must meet is to analyze 17th, 18th and 19th century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary signifi cance.

A math standard for sixth grade students is to solve real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane.

For Arizona, the core standards are critical to making more graduates of high schools ready for college or work by aligning curricula with the expectations of institutions of higher learning and industry. Right now, only about half of the state’s high school graduates qualify to enroll in a state university and a majority of students enrolling in community colleges take remedial coursework.

Instead of rote learning and testing, students will be trained to be critical thinkers. Th e idea being that it’s impossible to precisely predict what the future holds, but students who’ve learned problem-solving skills will be able to meet whatever challenges await them.

Arizona’s development of the common core stan-dards as part of its participation in the Obama Adminis-tration’s Race to the Top initiative that provided federal grants from a $4.35 billion fund to states willing to step up innovative ideas for education reform.

As a participant in the Race to the Top initiative, Arizona has been granted a waiver from complying with

the No Child Left Behind Law adopted under President George W. Bush.

Th e state had been meeting goals for adequate yearly student progress but the No Child timetable requiring all students to meet grade-level profi ciency standards by the end of the 2013-2014 would have been virtually impossible.

Also, as part of the change, in 2015 the state will replace the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) test with an online exam that will measure student competen-cies in meeting the common core standards.

Clearly, educators and others have worked diligently to develop Arizona’s Common Core Standards. Now the challenge for lawmakers is to back them up with the funding that will allow them to deliver on their goals.

Th e Arizona Department of Education had asked for $131 million over two years, including nearly $63 million next year that would fund training and materials. Th at didn’t include money for technology infrastructure.

In her budget recommendation submitted in January, Gov. Jan. Brewer proposed spending $40 million for training and materials, $1.5 million for regional training centers and $20 million for technology to prepare for online testing.

We’ve heard it from both sides in the past about funding for education. Th ere are those who are embar-rassed that the state routinely ranks near the bottom in per-pupil funding and says it’s the reason so many of our students aren’t getting an adequate education. Th en there are those who say the system is broken and there’s no sense throwing good money after bad on it.

Funding to implement the Common Core Standards responds to both objections. It increases the amount of money spent on education, while reforming the system and adopting rigorous standards.

Nothing is more critical to Arizona’s economic future than education. Many people have been working to get the Common Core Standards to this point. Now it’s time for lawmakers to put the state’s money behind them.


OPINIONADVOCATING FOR BUSINESS

Classroom notes I’ve taken about local educationI do a lot of listening in my role as president

of the Tucson Metro Chamber. I consider the opinions of business owners and executives to be my “classroom.” Second only to the angst business owners have expressed about the business-friendliness of local government is their concern about education and the resulting quality of our local workforce. We are working on and making a diff erence in both areas and have found those who drive both areas to be responsive.

I’d like to share what I think are some important observations and opinions about the very complicated subject of improving education (especially K-12) in our community. As a component of this essay, I have embedded a link that explains the national Common Core Standards recently adopted by the State of Arizona.

While there is no simple answer or “silver bullet” to the issue of education reform, it is painfully obvious that some-thing has to change. Here are some opinions about the pieces of the puzzle:

Money matters, but it’s not all that matters

When dedicated teachers are not paid a fair wage and have to reach into their pockets to purchase classroom supplies, something is wrong. When school build-ings need serious repair and are not furnished with amenities that promote learning, it is diffi cult to expect excellence. At the same time, the taxpayer is entitled to a return on the investment in education in the form of improved outcomes.

Th erefore, it seem obvious that future requests for increased funding must be tied to increased classroom performance. Th e defeated Proposition 204 on the November ballot to make permanent the state’s one-cent sales tax addressed the “pay for performance” issue, but the language did not put the extra tax money directly in the classroom. Voters are also hesitant to give themselves a permanent new tax when other taxing mechanisms were available. Proposition 204 failed, but that must not be the end of discussion about more money for improved education expectations.

Solutions are out thereFaced with similar challenges, other

states have already begun the process of trying new approaches to increasing academic performance. Some states have increased the number of school days in the year. Others are experimenting with merit pay for their best teachers. Others are taking aggressive steps to reduce or eliminate teacher tenure and to be sure that under-performing instructors fi nd another line of work. Teachers unions are part of the solution in some locales and part of the problem in others.

Two things seem to be true:

1. What got us to this point won’t get us to where we want to go.

2. Cooperation and a focus on the teacher-student relationship must trump everything else.

Families and society have roles

How can a middle-schooler do well in the classroom when she arrives at school high on mom or dad’s prescription drugs? How can an elementary school kid be expected to concentrate and learn when there was no food on the table for dinner last night? How can the child whose parents never read stories to him be expected to perform on par with the child who had a bedtime story every night and who himself began reading books to his parents? And how can a teacher be an eff ective instructor when so many social and media messages promote disrespect for authority and glamorize life on the street in place of a life of learning?

Until Mom and Dad step up, until more of our citizens have decent household incomes and until we return accountability and respect to the classroom, it will be hard to put the entire burden of improving education on teachers and administrators.

Th ere is a ‘poverty correlation’

Th e relationship between poverty and achievement seems very real. Students living in poverty simply need more support to get to the level playing fi eld. Th e reasons are plentiful: substandard facilities, a culture that does not seem to place a premium on learning, lack of resources in the classroom and at home. Kids that come to school unprepared and unsupported are simply working at a disadvantage.

Th e Finnish connectionTh ose who know about these things say

that Finland has the best school system in the world. I had the pleasure of a conversa-tion with Perttu Pesä, director of Interna-tional Relations for the City of Tampere, Finland, and a board member on the Tampere Chamber of Commerce, during his recent visit to Tucson as part of a Finnish trade delegation. I asked about Finnish schools. Here is what he told me:

• Th e goal of the Finnish education system is to “create educational equality for everyone.”

• All schools are equally equipped.

• Local school boards supervise all primary schools.

• Th ere are few private schools.• Schools are highly structured and are

viewed as places of learning.• Th e national government supports and

operates all universities.• Students are given scholastic and

career guidance early.• Teachers come from the top 20 percent

of their graduating classes and are held in very high esteem .

• Th ere is a high level of cooperation between business and education

• Teachers unions exist, but principally to be supportive, cooperative and to help explore new ideas for better education.

What Mr. Pesä did not say is that Finland is a heavily-taxed and rather homogenous society fairly devoid of the social issues so prevalent in U.S. culture.

Choice is goodIf a restaurant serves you a bowl of cold

soup, you’re likely to go to a diff erent restaurant. If your mechanic can’t seem to fi x your car right the fi rst time, you are probably going to shop for a new mechan-ic. Our economy thrives on choice and competition. Th e same should be true for schools. Open enrollment, charter schools and private schools all must be part of the mosaic of learning opportunities.

If, as a consumer, you can choose a better restaurant or a better mechanic, you certainly should be able to choose a better school for your children. If a school or a school district majors in something other than getting students ready for the real world, parents should be able to vote with their feet and go to a school that is getting the job done.

Common Core StandardsCommon Core Standards are here and

you need to know how they change the game. Th e Common Core Standards metric is a national eff ort to raise classroom expectations and improve outcomes to enable American students to acquire the knowledge base and critical thinking they will need to compete in a world economy.

Common Core Standards are a seismic shift in what is taught, when it is taught, why it is taught and what school districts must do to assimilate these new practices. Implementing standards will require money (estimated to be $100 million) for teacher training, to set up data tracking systems and use the data to drive class-room materials and actions to get students the help they need.

Several other states have managed to get this done and Arizona must do it, too. Tougher achievement exams related to the Common Core Standards begin in 2015. Th ese new achievement exams will

measure the performance of students, teachers and schools.

Sure, the Common Core Standards approach has its critics, but adoption of them seems to be a good step in the right direction of expecting more, increasing availability to data and improving accountability.

For a short, easy-to-understand introduction video explaining Common Core Standards, click here: vimeo.com/51933492

Th e Washington Post has a coupleof point/counterpoint articles on the impor-tance of Common Core Standards. You can fi nd them here: www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/08/fi ve-key-questions-about-the-common-core-standards/ and here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/15/common-core-standards-arguments-against-and-for

Reforming education and improving the quality of our workforce is a high priority for the Tucson Metro Chamber. You may want to consider helping the cause as a volunteer on the Tucson Metro Chamber’s Education Committee. Th eir activities include:

• Improving third grade reading scores through volunteer tutoring eff orts through partnerships with Literacy Connects and the United Way of Southern Arizona

• Promoting increased interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects through the chamber’s partnership with the Blue Marble Foundation

• Increasing fi nancial literacy and awareness of free enterprise through the Chamber’s partnership with Junior Achievement

• Researching and distributing current and accurate information about education statistics

• Providing scholarships to local high school graduates as part of the Chamber’s State of Education event and the Cham-ber’s 501-c-3 foundation, the Center for Cultural Enrichment

• Promotion of more funding and operational latitudes for the state’s Joint Tech-nical Education District (JTED) program.

Reforming our education system and producing a better workforce are vital to our future as a community and as a country. At a minimum, I encourage you to become conversant in this important topic. Better yet, get involved and help the Tucson Metro Chamber make a diff erence!

Contact Mike Varney, president and CEO of the Tucson Metro Chamber, at [email protected] or (520) 792-2250. Th is is special editionof his Advocat-ing for Business column that normally appears the second week of each month in Inside

Tucson Business.

MIKE VARNEY


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Getting something done is possible, with collaboration Why can’t we all just get along? As a

15-year resident of Pima County, a University of Arizona graduate (twice) and with a major investment in this region, I believe there is willingness in Tucson to fi nd common ground by many, but impediments to do so by a few.

I am a strong believer in collaboration, and tend to live my life comfortably in the middle, looking at issues from all sides. Independent, I have blended my rural ambitions with the need for services, evidenced by my 4-acre ranch home, skirting the limits of town, where the country mouse and city mouse mingle. While many of my college friends departed, I identifi ed with the community and chose to stay and settle down. We have some of the most beautiful and unique scenery in the world, and I intend to keep it that way for generations to come.

Being a glass half full kind of gal, I tend to look at things positively. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I am the executive director of the Metropolitan Pima Alliance (MPA), a non-profi t organization that encourages collaboration between the public and private sector.

I was invited to write this column and share in our collaborative success, while hopefully inspiring this behavior county-wide. MPA is a membership-based organization, founded in 1997 with a

current member-ship of 120 like-minded companies and individuals that support collabora-tion as a means of problem solving. MPA is dedicated to advocating responsible development in

Pima County and furthering the interests of the real estate and development industry through education, public policy advocacy and networking.

While our mission seems broad, our strength is bringing people to the table to collaborate on issues related to land use and development. We recognize land use as a foundation of economic development and work to balance development with the natural environment, neighborhoods and the community at large. After all, economic development contributes to things we value as a community schools, public safety, open space and pothole free roads, just to name a few.

While we admittedly favor the side of growth and development, it is extremely important for us to recognize that we cannot be 100 percent in one direction. Developers cannot always get what they

want, just as neighbors and the environ-mental community cannot either. But — and this is important — if we all reason-ably and respectfully work together, why can’t we create a safe, beautiful commu-nity, where our residents value their quality of life?

I inserted the word “reasonably” with purpose. For me, unreasonable people are those who are unwilling to bend in any direction and I have unfortunately worked with several who are exactly like that. While I know that people’s defi nition of “quality of life” is open for discussion, speculation and negotiation, ultimately our goal as a community should be to push us to be the best that we can be, and off er those same opportunities for future generations. I am striving not to be cliché, but as President John F. Kennedy put it, “a rising tide lifts all boats.”

In an eff ort to prove that I do not see the world through rose-colored glasses (uh-oh, another cliché), let me provide you with some MPA success stories that continue to encourage me to do my job eff ectively.

• City of Tucson Certifi cate of Occupan-cy permit: Th e city had a Certifi cate of Occupancy process and policy that made it challenging for a new business to occupy an existing business’ space. Th ere were individual eff orts made to change the policy but for various reasons these eff orts

were unsuccessful. Ultimately, after collaboration between the public and private sector, sprinkled with eff orts from neighborhood representatives, a new ordinance was approved, no longer hindering our economic growth. Unfortu-nately, the collaboration between a developer and a neighborhood occurs less often than I would like, but the C of O process proves it can happen.

• Copper and metal theft. I’ll expand on this issue in a future column, but in summary, a casual conversation between two business people evolved over six months into a coalition of 15 organizations, six government entities spanning three levels of government, multiple law enforce-ment agencies, more than 100 businesses and hundreds of residents. MPA eff ectively orchestrated the collaboration of these groups due to the willingness of others to participate in a constructive fashion. In six months we have gone from a conversation to drafted state legislation, thousands of dollars raised and a conduit created for law enforcement to share their information with the public.

Success comes from collaboration. Join MPA in fi nding common ground.

Contact Amber Smith, executive director of the Metropolitan Pima Alliance, at [email protected] or (520) 878-8811.

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