Booking beachfront villas on the Amalfi Coast and vacationing on private yachts for the 1 percent will soon be replaced by trips that rocket outside of Earth’s atmosphere as innovations in space tourism continue to flourish in Tucson and around the United States. Commercial space travel may become a realistic goal as early as 2017,…
It was supposed to be a busy Labor Day weekend for the Tombstone Oil and Vinegar Co. The holidays always brought a surge of tourists into the old western town. But when the wall of a next door business collapsed, so did the oil company’s revenue for the weekend. “We were forced to close because…
The absence of on-campus daycare centers, the cost of tuition, and a traditional university structure are factors that tend to isolate single mothers attending college and challenge their success. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, there are over 2 million single mothers attending college in the United States. Women with children tend to…
It was a routine traffic stop in Cincinnati, Ohio, in July that started it all. Former campus police officer Raymond Tensing pulled over Samuel DuBose because his car did not have a front license plate. Tensing reached into the car to restrain DuBose and after Dubose refused to take off his seat belt and get…
When he left the cold winters of Michigan in 1976 even Joe Flanarty himself didn’t realize the deep roots he would dig. He fell in love with a university and town and never left. Now a retired high school teacher and aspiring women’s basketball coach William “Joe” Joseph Flanarty acquired the nickname “Super Fan” among…
