Arizona air pollution has decreased by 62 percent in all emissions over the past 40 years, according to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ). This report comes after a record low last summer when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Southern Arizona had the worst air quality report since 2012. “We do have our…
All across the nation, national parks, like Saguaro, will have ticket price increases this year implement programs for veterans and active duty service members. Ticket increases will also go toward building new community gathering centers that groups like Wounded Warriors and The Mission Continues could meet at prior to entering the parks. National Park Representative…
Nahid K. grew up in Iran, where 90 percent of the population is Muslim. Her parents, however, were not very religious. When she was 25, Nahid converted from Muslim to Catholicism, something that is very rare, especially because the Islamic law condemns conversion. According to Dr. Konden Smith, a lecturer of religious studies at…
Teens sickened after eating Tide Pods became part of a viral social media campaign earlier this year that awakened concerns about why such silliness ever gains momentum. “Trends like this can come from the bottom rather than through mass media,” said Carrie Brown, the director of social media journalism at The City University of New…
Somedays, Shirley Pinkerton is Larcena Pennington, the wife of a wealthy farmer in 1881. On other days she is Annie Neil, an Afro-Native American woman who fought her way up to becoming a business owner. Or somedays she dresses like as a miner as Pearl Hart, a stagecoach bandit in 1899. For 12 years Pinkerton…
