“The Tucson City Council will likely vote Tuesday on a city staff recommendation to keep the elephants in Tucson and expand their enclosure at Reid Park Zoo, giving them several acres of sand pits, pools, grass and a mud wallow instead of their current half-acre space.” - Arizona Daily Star
“In response to Star editorial columnist Jim Kiser’s Feb. 12 piece, quite frankly, deciding what to do with Reid Park Zoo’s elephants is not an “Enormous Dilemma,” as stated in the headline.” - Arizona Daily Star
“What’s best for Connie and Shaba? This is the primary question we should ask. More than 4,000 Tucson residents and zoo patrons have signed petitions urging the City Council to transfer the elephants at the Reid Park Zoo to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee where they will have free access to hundreds of acres of natural habitat.” - Arizona Daily Star
“People have big hearts for elephants. I say that with some authority after seeing the response to my Feb. 12 column, in which I suggested Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo should give up its two elephants, for humane and financial reasons, and concentrate instead on improving conditions for its other animals.” - Arizona Daily Star
