Of all the medical services you can get for free or nearly free in community clinics around the state, dental isn’t one of them. Eighteen percent of the state’s population has no health insurance, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the urgency to provide medical services has never seemed greater….
Bollywood dancing —fists pumping in the air, crazy mad core gyrations and furious cardio bursts — is quickly becoming the new Zumba for exercise enthusiasts, spreading much like the Latin American dance that sparked one of the biggest exercise crazes of the last decade. “Bollywood teaches simple and fun dance steps that everyone can catch on…
The demand for foster care in Arizona continues to climb, while funding to support the systems continues to fall. In 10 years, the demand for foster care in Arizona jumped 62 percent while nationally almost 22 percent fewer foster care children entered the system. This year, 6,000 more children entered into the state’s foster care system…
Robert Knight, a professional hairdresser and a peer counselor at the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF), has been living with AIDS for almost 18 years. His biggest goal right now is to educate the youth so they can be more aware of a disease that is far from being eliminated. And he has a…
The money being contributed to this election cycle shows just how much some are willing to spend in their pursuit of victory. More than $490 million has been spent on 811,800 political advertisements for state races across the country in 2014, according to the Center for Public Integrity. Arizona came in at seven on the…
