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How to prepare for the outside world and job search
Students stress about the upcoming job search after graduation. Commencement ceremonies, diplomas and job applications. Those things are leaving college seniors with a mix of angst and excitement as...
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Rising stars of Pueblo High School
Pueblo High School is located on South 12th Avenue and West 44th Street. Photo by Adriana Espinosa/ Arizona Sonora News While Pueblo High School may carry a generalization of being in a rough southern...
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DeGrazia: Still a force 30 years later
Ted Degrazia, a UA graduate, is one of the most successful and celebrated artist in SOuntern Arizona. (Photo by the DeGrazia Foundation) More than 30 years after his death, Ted DeGrazia remains a major...
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Dry wilderness, high winds mean fire season
A firefighter fights a massive wildfire in eastern Arizona in June, 2011. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) As the seasons change and the wilderness of Southern Arizona rises in humidity, so does the fire...
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From war to racism: a refugee tale
Noor Dawari sits with his two sons, Yussuf, age 2, and Murtaza, 6. Noor is trying to assimilate his boys into American culture, teaching them English and sending them to American schools. (Photo by...
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Guest worker program used as gateway for labor abuse, trafficking
A comparison between H-2A and H-2B regulatory safeguards after the Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security jointly issued additional regulations in 2015 for the H-2B program....
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Trump’s success lights spark in Latino community
Protestors stand outside Donald Trump’s rally on March 19, 2016, in Tucson. Photo by Arizona Sonora News Donald Trump’s presidential campaign not only hovers over the idea of a bigger wall, but it...
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Judicial shortcomings for domestic violence victims
The Emerge! Center is located at 2545 E Adams St. (Photograph by Ashley McGowan/ Arizona Sonora News) The number of domestic violence-related deaths in Pima County increased by 50 percent between 2014...
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A painter of the desert drives a campaign
Gretchen Baer poses with her Hillary Clinton art car. When Gretchen Baer walks into the High Desert Market, her mid-calf plaid Chucks distinguish her from the already unique art community of Bisbee,...
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The Matriarchal Role of the ‘Abuela’
Of Dolores’ 13 grandchildren, Frankie is the second eldest. Photo by Adriana Espinosa/ Arizona Sonora News The backbone of the family, her authority is the end all be all She is the abuela. “Abuela”...
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New lives for old plastic trash, here and around the world
[Top: Primary school students in Paraguay find creative uses for discarded plastics. Photo by Alex Duello] By Emily Ellis Arizona Sonora News After its journey home as a sack for groceries or books...
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Digging for clues on a mysterious people, one pot at a time
By ELIZABETH EATON Arizona Sonora News Service The Homol’ovi Project isn’t like Atlantis; there’s no mystery as to where this civilization disappeared. Instead, anthropologists like Claire Barker are...
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Pediatricians and the pushback against vaccinations
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...
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In plain English, Huachuca Mayor Taylor defends resistance to ‘Spanish/Mexican’
By AMANDA MARTINEZ Arizona Sonora News Service Huachuca City Mayor Ken Taylor says he felt blindsided by the uproar that followed his terse declining of an email invitation to attend the...
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The stars at night, they’re not so bright. Deep in the heart of Tucson.
By MIKAYLA MACE Arizona Sonora News Service The sun sets in Tucson; street lights blink on; storefronts glow. From downtown, you can see a handful of stars, and quite a bit more if you are in other...
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From Zeer Pot to Evaptainer, from the Middle East to Arizona, how sunlight...
By NOUR HAKI Arizona Sonora News Service Everybody in southern Arizona knows what an evaporative cooler is. This technology, which pre-dated the wide residential availability of air conditioning,...
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Going digital from behind bars, with an iPad
By ALLIE GOODMAN Arizona Sonora News Service Beginning in June 2016 nearly all 2,000 Pima County Jail inmates became officially “logged in” after receiving their own tablet devices. Yes, tablets. As in...
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A primer on Arizona’s ballot initiative to legalize recreational pot
By JACQUELYN SILVERMAN Arizona Sonora News Service Pot or not? That is basically the question Arizona voters will have to decide on Election Day, when the Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act will...
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Need to rent a goat, a donkey or a cow? Here’s how
By LEAH MERRALL Arizona Sonora News Instead of waking up in the morning to the blare of a leaf blower, lawn mower or chainsaw on landscape duty, why not wake up in peace and look out the window to see...
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While big airlines squeeze mid-sized airports, Tucson airport starts new...
By JESSICA KONG Arizona Sonora News Pushing back against declines in airline service that have been seen at all mid-sized and smaller airports in the U.S. in recent years, Tucson International Airport...
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