The University of Arizona profited more than $9.8 million on the play of 13 scholarship basketball players last year. The athletes earned a $36,000 scholarship and $1,500 every month for food and housing. Their work generated $22.7 million of revenue for the university. They received 4 percent. Critics say the pay is paltry and the…
Blues music is a pleasant sound for Southern Arizona. Marty Kool, face of blues in Arizona, has been reviewing blues on air for 30 years at 91.3 KXCI. Kool tells a love for music from R&B of the 50s to blues music he now plays on the radio. “There’s a magic about blues that seems…
With winter lettuce season starting in November, farms and the agriculture industry are rushing to find workers for harvest. A difficult task, made more difficult with the anti-immigration rhetoric coming from the current administration. For Arizona, the stakes are high, especially for the Yuma area, where roughly 90 percent of national lettuce and leafy greens…
Brinkley is only 1 1/2 years old. She takes six medications a day. One combats the infection in her bones. Three suppress her pain. One supplements her joints, and the last is an antibiotic that fights her additional health threats. Brinkley suffers from a severe case of valley fever, a disease that is crippling dogs…
Traducido por: Vanessa Ponce Ayala Dieciocho centavos. Esa es la diferencia entre una mujer y un hombre que trabajan en Arizona. Según datos del Instituto de Investigación sobre Políticas para la Mujer (IIPM, por sus siglas en ingles) del proyecto Estado de la Mujer en los Estados, Arizona ocupa el lugar 17 de 51,…
