Today we continue Summer Headlines 101 with news from Tucson’s activist scene:

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.

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‘TIS BUT A SCRATCH

State Attorney General, Tom Horne, has been banned from intervening in the ongoing MAS battle.

Horne remains undaunted.

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SU CASA ES MI CASA

MAS supporters have begun blanketing neighborhoods to make their voices heard. Specifically, the neighborhoods (and doorsteps) of TUSD board members.

You guys know that you’re powerless unless the head vampire invites you in, right?

PLEASE, SIR, MAY I HAVE A BED?

Arizona’s child-welfare ranking has fallen in again, to 46th in the nation.

Dear God… Where do Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico and Mississippi have their CPS kids sleeping?!?

JAIL HOUSE SCHLOCK

According to the American Friends Service Committee, privatizing prisons hasn’t saved Arizona taxpayers any money.

While researching the matter, a reporter’s public-information request was denied by the House Appropriations Committee, though. So I’m sure there’s nothing shady going on.

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K-E-L-L-Why? 

CD8 loser Jesse Kelly has dropped out of the race for CD2.

Aww, Jesse — was it something we said?

FRANK AND BEANS

GOP sweetheart Frank Antenori knows how to Tweet. To me, that’s the big news.

The fact that he thinks nothing was accomplished at the last Rio Nuevo board meeting doesn’t surprise me at all.

WELCOME TO THUNDERDOME

The TUSD board appointed Miguel Cuevas this week, after Mark Stegeman vacated the board presidency… again.

So. Yeah. Good luck with that, Miguel.

DUDE. NOT SWEET.

Here’s how it seems to have gone down:

Cop pulls over dude. Cop smells weed. Dude produces valid MM card and not-valid driver’s license. Cop really smells weed. Dude makes joke about weed stink in car before he gave half of it to his buddy. Cop arrests him, searches his car, and finds a bunch of weed. Dude goes to jail.

Moral of the story: Even a MM card can’t protect you from your own stupidity, dude.

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