“I don’t like nothing free,” she says. A smile crosses her face, but the eyes remain fierce. Her dark hair is pulled back in a smart bun, and her lipstick is a confident cherry red. Four of seven piercings in her right ear are filled with studs, and another is centered in her bottom lip. “How…
The Cat in the Hat and Grandmother Goose greeted children at El Rio’s Congress Clinic on a Friday afternoon in late February. Tables were set up for cookie decorating, coloring and puzzles. But more important, were the tables piled high with books. More than 250 of El Rio Community Health Center’s young patients received books…
[ASNS Video, production by Isaac Cox] The tough cowboys and bull riders from the La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, also known as the Tucson Rodeo, are nursing their aches and bruises now that the rodeo is over. For the bull riders, trying to spend eight seconds atop a snarling 1,700-pound bucking bull that can leap five…
http://youtu.be/9I7uJ7SmXCU The Accenture Match Play Championships’ eight-year stay may be over for southern Arizona, putting an end to more than just golf. “It would mean I have no job, so that’s what it would mean,” Executive Tournament Director Gerald Goodman said. “But, it would be a loss of an economic impact here for the community.”…
—-[Updated March 7 — The Border Patrol today issued revised guidelines to address incidents of Border Patrol agents shooting to death Mexican youths for throwing rocks across the border at agents, ordering agents to avoid using deadly force in such incidents and instead seek “tactical advantage,” including by moving to a spot where they can’t…
