December 20, 2024 / Modified dec 20, 2024 3:52 p.m.

The Buzz: Catching up with some of our 2024 interviewees

We check back in on four stories we covered this year to see how they are doing.

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The Buzz for December 20, 2024

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Each year, the staff of The Buzz talk to more than 100 people for the episodes we bring you. To wrap up 2024, we decided to check in on some of the people we talked with to see how the rest of the year went for them.

In this episode, you'll hear from Dr. Kristin Olson-Garewal. whom we spoke with in May, about her non-profit The Homing Project. It was preparing to build a set of temporary tiny homes on a plot of land in midtown Tucson, but for this interview, she took us to another spot that the group will soon be building on.

We also catch up with Steve Kozachik, who left his spot as the longest tenured member of the Tucson City Council in March to take a job with Pima County. Kozachik's first task was to get construction of a public private partnership known as The Mosaic Quarter underway. We hear about the two jobs he is now working on for the county.

And show producer Zac Ziegler gives us the latest on how opioid settlement money is being spent and a quick update on a segment he did on our episode about organ and tissue donation where he detailed his experience of becoming a tissue recipient after having cartilage allograft surgery in his knee.

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