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Tucson Daily Brief

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The Tucson news you'd otherwise miss — a daily brief (web & podcast), coverage of Tucson, Pima County, Marana & Oro Valley government, and what's opening around town. Free Sunday newsletter: tucsondailybrief.com/newsletter.html — by Nicholas De Leon.

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 23/09/2026

Presenting our report on all those butterflies you may have been seeing driving around Tucson over the past few weeks. Link below!

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 22/09/2026

Tucson and Pima County launched the Prosperity Initiative dashboard Monday: 30 indicators, values for 2013, 2018 and 2023. The one series that moves yearly is eviction filings: 10,502 countywide in 2025, 80% of them in Tucson. Map: filings per 1,000 residents by tract.

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 18/09/2026

If you thought a lot of Californians were buying houses in southern Arizona, you were right. Barely. California sent 218 homebuyers to Pima County since Jan. 2025. Washington sent 200. Every state sent at least one. 👇

Vector art depicting statistics of people moving from California to Arizona, with imagery of both states' flags superimposed on their geographic border outlines.

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 17/09/2026

We just launched a new feature this morning called Who They Are: interactive org charts of the people in power in Southern Arizona. Read more about how it works below.

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 10/09/2026

Solar was 12.8% of what TEP generated itself this year, up from 7.3% in 2025. Coal's share: 49.8% in 2022, 22.3% now. From TEP's own hourly filings, every hour since 2015. A new video version, Under the Sun, runs every Saturday.

Card reading 12.8%, solar's share of what TEP generated itself in 2026, up from 7.3% last year, with a bar chart by year.

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 10/09/2026

First thing the archive turned up: Tucson's first 100-degree day of 2026 was March 19. Earliest since records began in 1946. The previous earliest was April 11, 2025. 76 days at or above 100° so far this year.

Card reading March 19, Tucson's first 100-degree day of 2026, the earliest on record; a chart of first 100-degree days since 1946.

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 10/09/2026

Announcing a new TDB initiative: Life in the Desert. Heat, water, sky, and power in the Tucson metro, measured. Today's numbers, the season against every year since 1946, and the long record, from official instruments. tucsondailybrief.com/life-in-the-...

Saguaros at sunset with the words Life in the Desert, heat, water, sky, and power in the Tucson metro, measured

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 05/09/2026

We just hit 10,000 page views in a month for the first time. Not bad!

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 01/09/2026

Pima County has released a public health review framework for data centers — the first formal tool of its kind, according to the department's John Neatherlin, who said there previously "wasn't a formal tool to do this."

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 18/08/2026

AI talking head videos are not to everyone's taste, I totally get that, but this Spanish-language video, as rendered by HeyGen with audio powered by ElevenLabs, is very well done. Good accent and pronunciation imo. Also: This is as bad as it will ever be. Watch this space, etc.

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 15/08/2026

Announcing our latest experiment in AI-assisted local news: Roadrunners! Roadrunners are bite-sized videos designed for social that incorporate our full corpus of published reporting. They build on our existing audio podcast pipeline. More to come! @twit.tv

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 14/08/2026

After publishing for six months, we now have a favicon. Look for it in your browser toolbar the next time you visit TDB! More cool stuff coming!

A white saguaro cactus against an orange / terracotta background.

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Tucson Daily Brief @tucsondailybrief.com · 09/08/2026

Starter homes are back on the Tucson market: KB Home's new models at Saguaro Haven start at $249,000 — 850 to 1,700 sq ft, in a market where the average new home runs $441,866. (via the Arizona Daily Star) What did your first Tucson home cost?

Card: The $249,000 Tucson starter home is back. New models as small as 850 square feet are aimed at first-time buyers, in a market where the average new home now runs $441,866.

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