Alarming news about head injuries in football may have some parents thinking twice about allowing a child to suit up as school football-camp programs approach this summer. But a 16-year-old junior at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, who has suffered multiple concussions, is one of the large number of players who maintain that the risks…
On Monday, the Senate met at 1:30 p.m., only to recess for caucus until 4, when they adjourned until Tuesday morning, despite a long Committee of the Whole calendar. The House was a little more active, when they heard a few bills in the Committee of the Whole, including a strike-everything bill that would call…
The birds of prey made their last majestic swoops over the desert on Sunday, April 20, during the season finale for the “Raptor Free-Flight” show of the season at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. The raptors that star in the show always get the summer off, when many of them molt and grow…
On the wooden storefront of North End Tent right across from the Grand Palace Saloon, the Mountain Saddle band sang tales of the west with twanged harmonies. While the band may hail from vast swath of the south and west known for country music, don’t call them country. They’re cowboys, pardner. Keep in mind that…
During the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base’s “Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona” air show this past weekend, pilot Greg ‘Slick’ Aguirre was off again into the wild blue yonder, as the Air Force song goes. He and his friends in the Desert Rats Warbirds team were among the highlighted performances at the air show. During the two-day…
