tucson: But Phoenix finally grew up at last.It's now so much better than it was before.Will Tucson finally get it at last?|||For one thing, (and I'm convinced of this; it's the conspiracy theorist in me...) the Mafia no longer has the hold on Tucson it once had, and the petty crime in the streets is no longer being policed by them. For another thing, too many liberals live there and they've junked the place up with their anti-business sentiment and their programs, such as giving free needles to smack addicts so they don't get AIDS. All it did was give the smack addicts a way to shoot their heroin safely, so now there are thousands more of them than there used to be. I talked with a person high on the roster at the UofA Ag school a couple of years back. (UofA used to be one of the top ag schools in the nation.) Now, it seems, they can no longer hold a class on the main campus. They have to keep to their facility up on Campbell and Limberlost because PETA and other lefty groups don't want them there. They fail to realize that it's a land grant university, and they'll lose federal funding if they continue to shove their ag school farther and farther off the map. Coach Olsen's basketball club can't support the school forever. Also, the food has gone downhill. I remember great restaurants when I was growing up, but you can't get Mexican food there now -- just that Baja crap. And all the Chinese places have pretty much dried up or gone the way of bad cooking and substandard ingredients. Eegees is about the last food I look forward to when I'm heading for Tucson. Radio used to be king there. Now KTKT, the former rock station, has turned into yammering heads and Mojo and Betsy aren't even a memory any more on 93.9. I could go on and on all night, but these are only a few of the reasons why I see Tucson going downhill and have been seeing it for years. The '80s were the last of Tucson's glory days, for sure. Sad, because it was a great place then.|||Your name explains a lot. I've never been to Tucson, but is it really that bad??