Natalie Guerrero Hernández wants to be a nurse when she grows up. Possibly. “Medicine. Or also architecture or graphic design. Those are the things I like the most,” she said. Natalie is a soft-spoken, hard-working 14-year-old who gets good grades and has big dreams for her future. She’s thinking about college and the importance…
Marana’s Erin Parsons is very familiar with rodeos. She comes from a well-known Tucson-area rodeo family and began competing in junior events at age 6. Now 29, she is a professional barrel racer and participates in about 20 rodeos each year, including La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, better known as the Tucson Rodeo. The Tucson Rodeo takes place once…
Facing an enormous and growing debt in both police and fire department pension accounts, the City of South Tucson may soon become the 10th local government in the United States to file for bankruptcy since 2010. Due to poor financial planning and a major hit to South Tucson’s investment assets during the economic recession in 2008, the city…
Considere un retrato omnipresente color sepia de una indígena americana, con un tocado puesto de diseño elaborado, expresando un cierto tipo de solemnidad desplazada. Este tipo de imagen le molesta a Will Wilson. La representación estereotípica corresponde a Edward S. Curtis, el famoso fotógrafo al comienzo del siglo XX. Curtis creó una gran cantidad de fotos que…
En San Luis, el parque llamado Friendship (amistad), se encuentra abandonado y en ruinas. Este parque, donde antes los niños jugaban béisbol y donde las familias llenaban las mesas de picnic, será la respuesta al congestionamiento diario de humanos o continuará representando un fracaso en el puerto de entrada de San Luis, cerca de Yuma….
