Join us for Episode 6 with special guest, Ernest Portillo. Ernesto is the Public Information Officer in the Department of Housing and Community Development in the City of Tucson. He has over 40 years of journalism experience and came to the PIO position after being an aide in Ward 3. For 19 years, Ernesto was at the at the Arizona Daily Star. While at the Arizona Daily Star, Ernesto, an award-winning journalist, was a Metro Columnist, writing about Tucson, it’s people and neighborhoods, regional culture and history. In addition, for the last 10 years at the Arizona Daily Star, Ernesto also worked as the editor of La Estrella de Tucsón, the Star’s weekly Spanish-language publication.
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