Arizona prepares for worsening wildfire seasons
Parts of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada are likely to see increases of five or more times current levels of annual area burned by 2038, according to the study.
Fight to remove Arizona’s Confederate monuments fizzle
For years, the East Valley branch of the NAACP fought to remove Confederate monuments throughout the state. Nothing happened. Fueled by momentum after the August 2017 Charlottesville riots and the toppling of many Confederate monuments throughout the South, East Valley NAACP president Roy M. Tatem, Jr. was hopeful that change would finally be made. But…
The miracle of Silas St. John and Arizona’s wild west
He baked in the early morning sun in the Dragoon Springs area of southeast Arizona, tending his wounds from four nights earlier. A deep slice in one of his palms. A large gash cut in his thigh to the bone. And worst of all, a flap of skin was all that held his left arm…
Concert venues ripe with drugs
Lanre Akomolafe, a local Tucson entertainment filmer and photographer, sees it now more than ever. “I was at Mad Decent Block Party, a music festival in Phoenix, Arizona, last year and a man fell to the ground and started seizing right in front of me,” says Akomolafe. Akomolafe brought medical personnel to help. Later, Akomolafe…
Soccer seeks a home in the desert
Major League Soccer not only brings revenue to the Tucson economy with their preseason play, but a bigger idea that soccer is growing in the community. The MLS teams coming to town year after year brings awareness to the growth of soccer within Tucson stemming all the way down to youth soccer. The benefits of…