An effort to recall Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson will be dropped, according to Allie Miller, the coordinator of the Recall Sharon Bronson Political Committee.

Sharon Bronson was first elected to the board of Pima County Supervisors in November 1996. After three terms, she is running again because “the job isn’t done yet.

Republican Al Melvin on Tuesday defeated Pete Hershberger, the former GOP state house member, in the race for the open seat in State Senate District 26, according to unofficial primary election tallies.

The pair should know each other well.

Officials from Cox Communications and the Pima County Board of Supervisors have been chosen to lead a public/private economic development partnership through Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities.

Government and political events in our area.

A national radio talk show host and elected officials are helping Pima County Supervisor Republican candidate Barney Brenner raise money at a Sunday, Oct. 5 event.

Citizens for Picture Rocks is hosting a forum for Pima County District 3 Supervisors and Marana Unified School District candidates on Tuesday, Sept. 16.

A proposed map on which a redistricting of Pima County Board of Supervisor boundaries would be based has been drawing considerable fire during recent public presentations.

Marana and Pima County have struck an innovative financing agreement that will bring a $3 million library to Continental Ranch in 2004.

A proposed budget before the Pima County Board of Supervisors has received mixed reviews from those members who represent the Northwest.

The Pima County Board of Supervisors recently passed a measure that could place the Santa Cruz River and its tributaries under protection of the federal government’s Clean Water Act.

Pima County is sponsoring a discount prescription card designed to provide families and individuals with significant savings on prescription drug costs.

Pima County Supervisors are asking the Town of Marana to slow down its consideration of a landfill proposed for ground between Silverbell and Avra Valley roads west of the town limits.

Republican Pima County Supervisor Ann Day (District 1) has fended off the challenge of Joe Higgins, and — without a Democratic opponent — is bound for a third term.

More than 1,000 guests crowded into the Tucson Convention Center last Friday where the annual State of the County event shared the playbill with organic, locally produced salad greens topped with regionally raised beef.

More than 1,000 guests crowded into the Tucson Convention Center last Friday where the annual State of the County event shared the playbill with organic, locally produced salad greens topped with regionally raised beef.

In several competitive local and state primary races this summer, area candidates spent nearly $200,000 in the past two months for primaries held Tuesday, Sept. 2 (as The Explorer went to press), for state Senate and House and county board of supervisors’ districts 1 and 3.

Pima County went from three to five county supervisors in 1972. Those original five districts have expanded and contracted following the population into different areas.

Pima County officials last week set a spending limit of $1.43 billion for next fiscal year.

If built, the $6 billion to $8 billion roadway would skirt some of the region’s most important environmental areas. Detractors say a proposed Interstate 10 bypass would fracture the landscape west of town, including the sensitive Ironwood Forest National Monument and Saguaro National Park West.

Pleas from Oro Valley residents for a larger reimbursement for the town library were shot down by the Pima County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

With 98.6 percent of the precincts in Cochise, Pima, Pinal and Santa Cruz counties reporting totals late Tuesday, Democrat Gabrielle Giffords appears to have easily won re-election to in Arizona’s Eighth Congressional District.

It took nearly seven years of battling environmental and legal restricitons, but the Northwest YMCA/Pima County Community Center is finally a reality.

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