Eighteen cents. That is the difference between a woman and a man working in Arizona. According to data by the Institute of Women’s Policy Research’s (IWPR) project Status of Women in the States, Arizona ranks 17 out of 51, which includes the 50 states and D.C. For every dollar a man earns in Arizona, a…
Just north of downtown, a wrought-iron fence surrounding a simple white building gives no clue of the historical importance of what’s inside. A barber academy in a small classroom and a dance academy in a standard school auditorium don’t hint at anything special, either. But behind an office door labeled “Staff Only” in the back of the…
Tucsonan Hashem Khazdooz is Muslim. He does not have a beard and he is not a terrorist. “A terrorist is anyone who kills innocent people regardless of their religion, race, gender or beliefs,” said Khazdooz. “Those terrorists are not humans, they are animals.” A great majority of Muslims in most countries say that suicide bombing and…
