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Former Principal Ed Arriaga Is Demanding Tax Dollars Because Someone Leaked TUSD's Sex-Harassment Settlements On His Behalf. By Chris Limberis BROKE AND NO longer a Tucson Unified School District bigshot, Edward R. Arriaga is demanding $150,000 from taxpayers because confidential information about sexual harassment complaints against him was leaked to The Weekly and The Arizona Daily Star last year. Arriaga, whose 31-year TUSD career ended with a stint as interim principal at Sahuaro High School, was the target of two sexual harassment complaints that TUSD settled for $50,000 and $17,90...

Despite A Teacher's Protest, TUSD Officials Have Approved Some Pretty Racy Sex Tales For Freshman Multicultural Students. By Chris Limberis IN THE UNDERGROUND room of concrete and pipes, the forbidden books and stories await: "Strong young man," she whispered, "you must be hot for us. Let me make you happy. Get on top of me. Quick, get into me." "I've been thinking of nothing else since I first saw you, pretty one," said Coyote, "but let me get my clothes off." "Hurry up," said the impatient girl. "Don't dawdle. Put it in!" Coyote took hold of a thick, long stick still warm from the

TUSD School Board Transfers Two Dozen Administrators And Wrestles With A $300 Million Budget. By Chris Limberis IT CERTAINLY WAS an agenda for success: Send notices to all 200 administrators in the Tucson Unified School District informing them Friday before a Tuesday meeting--during summer break--that they could be transferred. Hold a secret executive session that delays the start of your regular meeting by more than an hour. Time is needed to carve up the pie out of public view. Get a report on how your magnet schools are failing to achieve the goal of attracting minorities. Get ...

The Doctor Is In-For Now. By Chris Limberis IT WAS IN the depths of Pima County that Dr. Richard Carmona, the czar of the county's health system who has presided over a $14 million loss in the last year, made a surprising offer to his chief political benefactor, Democratic Supervisor Raul Grijalva. In the county's subterranean garage, Carmona told Grijalva--the conduit in the increasingly volatile relationship Carmona has with Sylvia Campoy, who heads the county's health care commission--that he would step down from his $190,500-a-year job. There, near the county's bottom, 12 floors beneath...