Fitz's opinion: A collection of David Fitzsimmons' opinion columns

Donald Trump reveals the strategies that have made him a global mastermind

There's more Christmas in Tucson's desert than in Hollywood's holly

A cartoonist makes holidays plans for the week ahead

A friendship remembered with tall tales, tears and gentle laughter

If only we could read the minds of the millennials among us

A cartoonists judges the kindness of strangers across our valley

Calling for a U-turn as UArizona moves into the digital search engine horse race

A report on my tres awkward pilgrimage into the heart and soul of France.

A report on my tres awkward pilgrimage into the heart and soul of France.

Not this croissant-nibbling, beret-wearing, cartoon-doodling Man of ze World

Fitz welcomes great Mexican cartoonist, Trino, to the City of Tucson

And recalls the celebrity sightings that make Tucson special

Our Labor Day drive to increase enrollment was a modest success

Wear sunscreen, seek shelter in a Margarita and listen your mother

A few lightning rounds with an electric know-it-all

A friendship that blossomed at the Tucson Festival of Books

The joys of sharing our Sonoran desert with other critters

The Drawing Studio teaches drawing as a practice essential to a good life

On a hot July in 1969 the heavens and the world are forever chnaged.

And shares the immense joy of answering angry reader's questions and insults

Joining the ranks for seniors opting for the good life

Honoring the legacy of Independence Day in the land of cowboys and cacti

From nowhere to the merciless land of dreams and unkept promises

Is it a mortal sin to brag about surviving Tucson's heat?

And verily the boy and the swamp box were made ready for summer

The joy of clearing brush at this cartoonist's hacienda.

 Our hearts are empty, but the spittoons are full

I share my great wisdom with the graduating Class of 2019

The past lives of our parents are never readily apparent

Down at the Arroyo Cafe progess is debated over coffee and eggs

One gardener's struggle with Sonoran daydreams and hammocks

A son of the border finds Easter's soul in the migrant

A veteran shares his stories and hopes over buttery Artichokes

I'm too young to host the Pima Council on Aging gala

What could be more American than white power worshipping combat weapons

As democracy loops, dives and rolls on the news.

Thirty plus years and thousands of kids later the dream persists

We want local cartoonists to submit their cartoons to the editor

Who can understand the challenges of the life a loved one has chosen?

I have a national emergency I'd like to see addressed hoy con todo lo que tenemos

Where the saints still walk with the least among us

A tale of sin, heartbreak, revenge and redemption

A recent round of layoffs takes down a legendary political inkslinger

With a shout out of thanks to the KGB for the transcripts

This garrulous geezer never met a tax he didn't like

Walls go up between old friends when talk turns to immigration