KNOCK, KNOCK. WHO’S NOT THERE?

MAS supporters, apparently tired of disrupting meetings, decided to instead disrupt TUSD School Board members’ home lives.

The protesters hit the streets — in particular, the street where former board president Mark Stegeman lives.

The tactic, while daring, might have been more effective if they’d checked to make sure Stegeman was home first.

CHICK-FIL-AMBUSH

You’d have to have been living under a rock to miss the local Chick-Fil-A drama last month.

Which actually sounds preferable to being associated with this guy.

ROSEMONT MINEFIELD

Local environmentalists took one on the chin this summer, with the state seizing control of air permitting for Rosemont Mine.

Tucson advocacy group Center for Biological Diversity swung back hard, convincing the US Fish & Wildlife Service to protect the (aforementioned-mine-including) habitat of an endangered species of jaguar.

Which is wise. Past experience shows that a “Save the Endangered Snail” campaign just isn’t sexy enough to get federal backing.

Meet back here on Friday for the final lecture in our Summer Headlines 101 symposium.

Locally, Vocally is a humor site devoted to absurdist journalism. Which is something I just made up.

PELOSI THIS

Freshly sworn in, Ron Barber swung hard at critics who called his border policies “election talk.”

Crossing the aisle with his very first Congressional vote — while still on the Democratic ticket, mind you — Barber sided with conservatives to provide an environmental law easement for Border Patrol agents.

Wow… so that’s what a million Tucsonans’ heads spinning sounds like…

LOOSE LIPS

CD2 hopeful Martha McSally is trying to limit the collateral damage after a Ron Barber staffer came forward, claiming that a McSally aide gave her tips on how to bring down CD8 contender Jesse Kelly.

The aide has since resigned.

No matter how the story washes out, you gotta give Kelly credit — I can’t remember the last time the mere mention of a name could so easily sink an election.

BeetleJess… BeetleJess… Beetle…

Nah, I wouldn’t do that to us ;->

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