By GABRIELLA VUKELIC Arizona Sonora News It was a news release guaranteed to get the attention of any local news-assignment editor: As the economic jobs picture improves nationally, Tucson was ranked No. 3 nationally, with 4.2 percent employment growth in July, according to federal government data. You may have read that, but here’s the follow-up….
By GABRIELLA VUKELIC Arizona Sonora News Service There are a lot of reasons that medical professionals hear from parents who decline to have their children vaccinated. Nicole Bencs, a clinical instructor and nurse practitioner at the University of Arizona’s College of Nursing, discussed her views on skeptical parents: “I’ve heard so many times that parents don’t vaccinate…
Natalie Guerrero Hernández wants to be a nurse when she grows up. Possibly. “Medicine. Or also architecture or graphic design. Those are the things I like the most,” she said. Natalie is a soft-spoken, hard-working 14-year-old who gets good grades and has big dreams for her future. She’s thinking about college and the importance…
Los contendientes políticos se enfrentan para conseguir atención sobre el tema de qué tan estrictas son las políticas migratorias y sobre qué se puede hacer para reformar el sistema, mientras que a diario personas en Arizona van al desierto a ofrecer ayuda humanitaria a los migrantes. Una pareja, John y Diane Hoelter, son voluntarios con…
Two Southern Arizonan nonprofit organizations, Native Seeds/SEARCH and Tohono O’odham Community Action, are working to promote wild food sources and desert tolerant crops in the region. Before Arizona became known for its cotton and citrus, before farmers moved west to tame the land, before Spanish explorers first set their eyes on the Grand Canyon, the Tohono O’odham…
