Curt Prendergast
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, AZ, United States
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Curt Prendergast: Keep the holiday spirit going
The holiday season always ends too soon. Let's keep the spirit of giving alive as long as we can. → Read More
Curt Prendergast: Time to slow down for the holidays
The Star's Opinion pages will slow down over the holidays, writes Opinion Editor Curt Prendergast. → Read More
Join us Thursday for interviews with candidates from CD 6, TUSD
Sept. 8 will be another busy day full of candidate interviews! → Read More
Join us next Thursday for interviews with candidates from CD 6, TUSD
Thursday, Sept. 8 will be another busy day full of candidate interviews! → Read More
Join us today for interview with LD 18 Senate candidates
We are well into our first round of interviews with candidates running for the state Legislature. → Read More
Migrant deaths: Focus on deadliest areas could boost success rate of difficult rescues
A 911 call from a migrant in distress in July 2020 sent Border Patrol agents into the desert on the Tohono O'odham Nation reservation. They found the caller near Arizona 86. But that day's search was not over. Another man needed help to the south, the caller said. Agents relayed the information to an Air National Guard helicopter pilot, who spotted Jose Antonio Guillermo, a Mexican citizen,… → Read More
How to 'take death out of the equation'
The deadliest season for migrants in Southern Arizona is over for this year. It will start again in six months. Officials and aid volunteers have taken numerous steps to reduce the number of migrants who die in Southern Arizona. But these deaths continue to mount, and broader, more proactive steps are needed. Despite a broad consensus in favor of reducing those deaths and a wide array of… → Read More
Migrant deaths never the 'immediate crisis at hand'
As a political issue, the deaths of thousands of migrants in Southern Arizona rarely appear at the forefront of federal lawmakers' discussions. The issue popped up sporadically over the past two decades in bills proposed by a handful of lawmakers from both the Republican and Democratic parties. In all but one instance, bills that addressed migrant deaths either stalled in committees or were… → Read More
Focus on deadliest areas could boost success rate of difficult rescues
A 911 call from a migrant in distress in July 2020 sent Border Patrol agents into the desert on the Tohono O'odham Nation reservation. They found the caller near Arizona 86. But that day's search was not over. Another man needed help to the south, the caller said. Agents relayed the information to an Air National Guard helicopter pilot, who spotted Jose Antonio Guillermo, a Mexican citizen,… → Read More
CBP awards contract of up to $105 million for migrants' facility in Tucson
The contract runs until October 2022 and includes an estimated $34 million in construction costs. → Read More
Pima County to get $2M from FEMA to aid asylum seekers
The FEMA grant will cover food, shelter, and medical care for families seeking asylum. → Read More
Last of 28 defendants in spice-trafficking ring sentenced in Tucson
The conspiracy involved manufacturing spice in Long Beach, California, Tucson and Phoenix, federal prosecutors said. → Read More
U.S. customs agency unveils new facility at Tucson airport
The iconic air traffic control tower at Tucson International Airport is now home to a new customs facility. → Read More
City of Tucson hires new head of parks and rec from Miami
A new director has been hired for Tucson Parks and Recreation. → Read More
GOP incumbents falling behind Democratic challengers in Arizona's LD 11
All the votes included in the first release of election results came from early ballots. → Read More
Gabaldón leads in Arizona's LD 2 Senate race, House race much closer
The early election results are based largely on early ballots. → Read More
Local incumbents win big in state Legislature races
Incumbent state representatives for Pima and Santa Cruz counties won big in Tuesday’s primary election. → Read More
Arizona coronavirus cases top 19,900; 2,368 in Tucson area
Confirmed coronavirus cases in Arizona topped 19,900 on Sunday, according to new state figures. → Read More
2 immigrant detainees in Arizona test positive for coronavirus after release
A legal clinic run by the Tucson-based humanitarian aid group No More Deaths is working to get immigrants released from custody during the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
Army Corps of Engineers awards $1.28 billion Arizona border wall contract to firm favored by Trump
Federal officials awarded a $1.28 billion border wall project in Southern Arizona to a company favored by President Trump, five months after a previous contract led to accusations of improper influence and a probe by the Defense Department’s inspector general. → Read More