Enter a bar on a Saturday night and the scene is the same everywhere. Groups of people drinking together or alone to savor a few moments of evasion from their hectic lives. Some drink more than others, some do drugs, but the outcome is the same. Escape. Why does our human population feel the need…
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…
PHOENIX — Gov.Doug Ducey, true to his pledge, now has a plan he hopes will stop the preponderance of opioids and reduce addiction rates. How? By giving bad doctors a slap on the wrist and locking up addicts. Ducey called for an end to Arizona’s opioid epidemic in his 2018 State of the State address, promising…
PHOENIX — The Arizona State Legislature started this week with Gov. Doug Ducey’s State of the State address, followed by the reading of over 100 bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and then finally the unveiling of the executive budget for fiscal year 2019. Doug Says No to Drugs and Yes to…
For six years, Joanie Smith led a double life. To most she was Joanie, the young single mother putting herself through cosmetology school. To others, she Regina, the woman who danced for money. “At the time I was a single mom, it seemed like the easiest thing to do,” said Smith. “I was desperate…
