Lack of communication, lack of transparency and lack of leadership seems to be the themes of how most county sheriffs feel toward the private course of action Republican Gov. Doug Ducey is taking with the new Arizona Border Strike Force proposal. Many believe Duceys’ plan is to keep a promise he made during his 2014…
A love for kids, passion for teaching, love for the subject, a willingness to change and understanding the role of school in a child’s life. Those are the five qualities that can be found in an exceptional teacher, and for Margie Looney she can be called exceptional. “She helps everyone hands on, she helps improve…
Gov. Doug Ducey’s hope that vacant classrooms and schools can be leased to charter schools might not hold much hope for rural Arizona. The pace of charter school development happens most in urban areas, and many people see no dream of converting the old Tombstone High School into a new educational venture for charter education The…
In early October, when temperatures drop in the north, thousands of Sandhill Cranes flood to the warmer climate of Southeastern Arizona. Some of the cranes are domestic, traveling from Montana and Alaska; others are more worldly, coming from as far as Eastern Canada and Siberia. “They seek large bodies of standing water near agricultural fields,”…
Every morning Antonio Navarro and five other taxi drivers park on the last block, on the last road out of Arizona. There, they wait for clients to cross from Mexico into Douglas. The last block is located directly in front of the U.S. Border Customs station. It is a lonely street; the only movement…
