Major League Soccer not only brings revenue to the Tucson economy with their preseason play, but a bigger idea that soccer is growing in the community. The MLS teams coming to town year after year brings awareness to the growth of soccer within Tucson stemming all the way down to youth soccer. The benefits of…
On a warm day in September, a young man sits in a soup kitchen on the Mexican side of Nogales. He has just been deported from the United States without his belongings. Here at the comedor, he is surrounded by more than 30 others who have also been deported and are in need of assistance…
According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, Arizona is the fifth worst in the United States for child homelessness. Every year, more than 62,000 children throughout Arizona are displaced through no fault of their own. Homeless youth are four times more likely to drop out of school. Youth on their Own in Tucson…
A massive new housing development proposed in Benson could empty the San Pedro River Valley aquifer, impacting agriculture, ranches and wildlife from Mexico to Winkelman. The builder, El Dorado Housing Inc., plans to build a Tuscan-style complex of 28,000 homes over 12,324 acres along the San Pedro River. Complete with an 18-hole golf course, parks,…
A freight train howls in the distance as a pedestrian sits cross-legged and lights a cigarette, watching curiously as floodlights wash over nearly a dozen actors moving about the Tucson Convention Center grounds on a soft February night. Borderlands Theater is rehearsing Barrio Stories, an unconventional new production that will run from March 3 to…
