School districts across Arizona are scrambling to fill vacant teaching positions as disinterest in the field soars because aspiring and existing teachers are fleeing to other states where pay is higher. During the 2014-2015 school year, 387 open teaching positions were listed in a survey carried out by the Arizona School Administrators Association. In September…
Dwayne Manuel discovered his interest for spray painting Native American themed modern art in 1998 when his sister started buying hip hop magazines and brought them home. “She started bringing these magazines in and these magazines had little graffiti sections in there which were pretty cool,” Manuel says. Manuel has been drawing since he was…
Tucson’s Vero Amore owner Aric Mussman is giving Yelp zero stars. Last month Mussman plastered a sign outside of his Italian restaurant with bold, black letters spelling out “Say No to Yelp.” After years of turbulence between the review site and business owners across the Untied Stated, the Tucson restaurateur is taking a public stand against the multi…
Senior drivers are causing a larger number of auto accidents, and the number is expected to increase in the years ahead. The number of licensed elderly drivers is the highest it has ever been, and that number is predicted to skyrocket as the Baby Boomer generation continues to age. Policymakers are worried that this growing…
The closing of the city’s lone hospital was the talk of the town. It’s been nearly four months since the closing of Cochise Regional Hospital in Douglas, but some Douglas residents talk about it like it happened yesterday. “People were shocked and appalled,” said Tom Allen, owner of a local café in town. “Suddenly, they didn’t…
