Menos comerciales, y más melodías y pláticas están a punto de llegar a las ondas de la radio de Arizona. Este año, 41 estaciones de radio no comerciales y de baja potencia, se lanzarán por todo Arizona, más del triple de las 13 estaciones de baja potencia existentes que recibieron su licencia en el 2001. “Y ya era…
Cuando Jimmy Wells de Tucson compró una casa antigua en el año 2011, la actualización de accesorios de uso eficiente del agua era su prioridad. Él compró una lavadora de carga frontal, un electrodoméstico eficiente en cuanto al consumo de energía y agua. Él transformó el patio a ser un espacio próspero con árboles y arbustos a…
More and more Arizonans are getting back to their roots through community gardening. Community gardens in Tucson, Phoenix, Mesa, Flagstaff and other cities across the state are in full bloom, as part of city initiatives or through private organizations. In Tucson, community gardens have doubled from 12 to 24 since 2010, according to Veronica…
Some are vacuumed. Some are swept. Others are crushed, baited or trapped. The rest are kept out with caulk, window screens, door sweeps or, as a last resort, sprayed with chemicals. In some schools, the spray comes first. “We have a season that never stops,” said University of Arizona entomologist Dawn Gouge, about school pests…
Peter Pilat walks from room to room in a massive “Food Factory” warehouse in Phoenix, overseeing as Maricopa County inmates assist guards in packaging peanut butter and washing fruit. The county’s roughly 8,000 inmates are no longer served meat, and they’re learning to adjust. As Food Service Commander, Pilat has managed a gradual switch to…
