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A flower to the Pima County Board of Supervisors for agreeing to deploy as many as 10 fixed photo enforcement units and 10 mobile van units around the county. Tickets will be issued when vehicles are caught on camera going more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. While the photo units could raise an estimated $1.5 million a year, County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry correctly noted that's it's not about the money. "This is in response to a known traffic safety hazard, which is speeding in unincorporated areas," he told the Star's Erica Meltzer. The state and the city of Tucson have similar systems. Studies show that photo enforcement slows traffic, saves lives and reduces the number of accidents. That's the point.

Dried pine needles to the people who are chucking their old Christmas trees on the side of the road instead of taking them to an easy drop-off recycling location.

We've seen several sad Christmas trees abandoned this week, ditched on the roadside or left in the middle of the sidewalk.

There's no reason for this large-scale littering. Tucson and Pima County's tree-recycling program offers plenty of places throughout the metro area to take your tree — where it'll be picked up and turned into mulch — for free.

The tree-recycling program continues through Sunday.

For more information about TreeCycle, call 791-5000 or go to www.tucsonrecycles.org online.