June 4, 2015 By Brian Flagg, To: All Bus Riders and Supporters LAST MINUTE ATTACK ON BUS RIDERS BY CITY STAFF, THE MAYOR AND COUNCILMAN KOZACHIK The Bus Riders Union (BRU) requests your presence at the final budget hearing on: Tuesday June 9 at 5:30 p.m. City Hall, 255 W. Alameda Come and help usContinue reading “LAST MINUTE ATTACK ON BUS RIDERS BY CITY STAFF, THE MAYOR AND COUNCILMAN KOZACHICK”
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CASA MARIA AND CHAD OWENS NEEDS HELP!
Chad Owens We need soup cooks and drivers, both on regular basis or you could put your name on our list of people to call when we are occasionally in need of a driver or a cook. Cooks come in at approximately 7:00 a.m. and can choose to stay and help serve or else leaveContinue reading “CASA MARIA AND CHAD OWENS NEEDS HELP!”
BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT!
By Brian Flagg, “There is something profoundly wrong” when so much of the nation’s income goes to the top 1 percent of all earners. “This grotesque level of inequality is immoral.” Bernie Sanders is the Vermont Senator who yesterday spoke these words to 5,000 supporters along the shore of Lake Champlain as he kicked offContinue reading “BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT!”
SORRY POPE FRANCIS, FOR WOMEN THERE IS STILL NO JUSTICE IN THE CHURCH
Barbara is a leader of The Just Faith group at Our Mother of Sorrows and has done food pick-ups for Casa Maria for many years. By Barbara Padilla-Bassett, Yes I too have read the Joy of the Gospel and find it refreshing to hear Pope Francis implore us to live the Catholic Social teachings inContinue reading “SORRY POPE FRANCIS, FOR WOMEN THERE IS STILL NO JUSTICE IN THE CHURCH”
EDUCATION FUNDING HELD HOSTAGE BY GOVERNOR
By Cesar Aguirre, Last week Governor Ducey spoke to some of the state’s highest ranking business groups: Greater Phoenix Leadership, the Flagstaff Forty and the Southern Arizona Leadership Council. This probably doesn’t surprise you, but Ducey’s threat to the group might. He made it very clear that if any of the business groups tried practicingContinue reading “EDUCATION FUNDING HELD HOSTAGE BY GOVERNOR”
MY DAUGHTER ALISSA’S NEW HERO
By Cesar Aguirre, A few months back I remember my daughter Alissa coming to me with much excitement to tell me about a remarkable woman they were studying in history. She was fascinated by the strong will of this female role model and all of the accomplishments achieved by her in spite of her disabilities.Continue reading “MY DAUGHTER ALISSA’S NEW HERO”
TREO EXPLOITING WORKERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER?
By Brian Flagg, So, TREO (Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities) has now changed its name to Sun Corridor Inc.? (Page 1 Star May, 20, 2015). Seems to me like an admission that they are acknowledging that they are largely useless and mostly incompetent and making a change in their brand name is something that makes themContinue reading “TREO EXPLOITING WORKERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER?”
ONE COUNCILMANS QUEST TO PUNISH TRANSIT AND ENRICH DOWNTOWN DEVELOPERS
By Jimmy Ojeda Shame on Councilman Kozachik for trying once again to balance the budget on the backs of the poor! According to him the City of Tucson should prioritize and move in the right direction, by increasing bus fares and cutting services. In his last newsletter dated May 11, 2015 he wrote: “We haveContinue reading “ONE COUNCILMANS QUEST TO PUNISH TRANSIT AND ENRICH DOWNTOWN DEVELOPERS”
A LESS THAN COMFORTABLE JESUIT NOVICE COMES TO TUCSON!
By Jack McLinden – May 2015 I’m a Jesuit novice (aka Catholic priest-in-training), and I’m traveling on my “pilgrimage” right now, which has led me to Casa Maria! The Jesuits send us out one-by-one with $35 and a one-way bus ticket, and tell us to come back in a month. The pilgrimage is all aboutContinue reading “A LESS THAN COMFORTABLE JESUIT NOVICE COMES TO TUCSON!”
POPE FRANCIS ON CLIMATE CHANGE
By Brian Flagg, We here at Casa Maria are eagerly anticipating the Holy Father’s upcoming encyclical on environmental issues such as climate change. Pope Francis said recently that it was practically finished but needed only to be translated into various languages before it could be published. Hopefully it will read something like this cartoon from theContinue reading “POPE FRANCIS ON CLIMATE CHANGE”
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