By CHRISTINA DURAN Arizona Sonora News (Christina Duran is a reporter for El Independiente) Down Morley Avenue, one side of the street is lined with storefronts selling girls’ party clothes and bright plastic toys. On the other side, tents and tables occupy what’s usually a vacant parking lot. Each table is laden with an assortment…
By MICHAELA WEBB Arizona Sonora News We Americans flush an average of 10 gallons of drinkable water down the toilet every day. That’s 3,650 gallons per person per year. In Tucson, a year of flushing sends the equivalent of enough energy to power a 100-watt light bulb for between 450 and 5,550 hours (depending on…
By MIKAYLA MACE Arizona Sonora News [UPDATED] Everyone in Arizona knows what haboobs are: A towering wall of dust, sometimes a half-mile high and a hundred miles wide, caused by summer monsoons rolling in over Tucson and southeast Arizona, and slamming the dry, loose dirt into the air. This monster sweeps across the desert northward…
By HARRISON REED Arizona Sonora News It is impossible to miss James Huffer’s house, at the corner of North Beverly Avenue and East Patricia Street in Tucson’s Old Fort Lowell neighborhood. It is surrounded by sculptures – many of them large abstract pieces fashioned out of scrap metal and wood, placed around the yard from…
By NOUR HAKI Arizona Sonora News Eight months ago, Besan Adnan, nine years old, a Syrian refugee from Jordan to the United States encountered a world of different people, a different language, different lifestyles. The school system and teaching methods were also different — until she enrolled at the Al-Rahman Sunday School where she felt her identity…
