Muchos recursos de salud reproductiva en el Condado Cochise se enfocan en prevenir los embarazos entre las jóvenes y en promover la planificación familiar, mientras que la educación sobre el aborto y las relaciones sexuales es limitada. Las limitaciones incluyen una inclinación hacia la abstinencia, basada en una educación cristiana, la cual se práctica en…
Freshly cleaned shot glasses are stacked underneath the handles of local draft beer. Bright red maraschino cherries have been plucked and placed within the bartenders reach. More than a dozen bar stools, upholstered in different colored leathers, line the refurbished wood and tin bar. The eclectic Saint Charles Tavern, 1632 South 4th Ave., is ready…
Riding in traffic, proper hand signals, and general bicycle safety. South Tucson kids ages 6 to 11 are learning to properly ride their bikes at the Ochoa Bike Club at the John Valenzuela Youth Center of South Tucson. BICAS, Safe Routes to School of South Tucson, and the Youth Center teamed up to provide an…
The young musicians line up on stage and prepare rows of cellos and violins. Small hands with slender fingers quickly tune their strings. The conductor approaches and raises his hands. The Tucson High Magnet Orchestra begins to play. The patio is filled with onlookers dispersed across small, circular tables. Indigenous art and brightly painted walls…
I met up with two of the women behind Tucson’s new Black Lives Matter chapter on one of those Arizona days where you see blue skies to the south and thunderstorms rolling in from over the Catalina Mountains. Katie Litchfield greets me at Sky Bar on Fourth Avenue, her 2-year-old daughter Sage trotting close behind…
