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A wet winter and spring followed by a hot, dry summer can be a dangerous combination in the Western U.S. The rain fuels bountiful vegetation growth, and when summer heat dries out that vegetation, it can leave grasses and shrubs ready to burn.

By By Camille Stevens-Rumann and Jude Bayham February 20, 2024
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Jesse Owens was the grandson of enslaved people and the son of Alabama sharecroppers. Luz Long studied law at the University of Leipzig and was the physical embodiment of Hitler’s nationalistic ideal.

By By The Foundation for a Better Life February 20, 2024
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Booze. Fights. Arrests. A music festival like Coachella? Perhaps a rap concert? Nope. “The Greatest Show on Grass” is always a raucous event.

By Judy Bluhm February 17, 2024
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August 2023 marked my awareness of concerning behaviors from the Cottonwood City Council and members of the Mingus Union High School board.

By Nell Faust, My Turn February 13, 2024
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Bill Mouskondis is always smiling. He is the son of a Greek immigrant who started a food service company with an old truck and cases of dented cans scavenged from railroad cars.

By The Foundation for a Better Life February 13, 2024
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With the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers set to face off in the 2024 Super Bowl, another conversation now begins in earnest about the TV commercials that will run during one of the most-watched television events of the year.

By Linda & O.C. Ferrell, Auburn University February 11, 2024
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Oh, Stanley Cup, how we love thee. No, not talking about the championship trophy awarded each year to the National Hockey League’s playoff winner. This “Stanley” is the 40-ounce tumbler that is taking over the world. One cup at a time.

By Judy Bluhm February 10, 2024
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Books can be educational, fun, adventurous, crazy, inspirational, stupid, boring, dishonest, scary and disgusting - just like the people who write them.

By Raquel Hendrickson February 6, 2024
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In 1929, as the American economy crashed and one-quarter of the workforce was unemployed, Joe Rantz stood on the planks of a dilapidated porch and watched his father, stepmother and younger brothers drive away.

By The Foundation for a Better Life February 6, 2024
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Like many parents whose youth have attended, currently attend, or will soon attend Mingus Union High School, I have witnessed the MUHS Board’s majority advancement of a conservative agenda with alarm.

By Erin Whitesitt, My Turn February 3, 2024
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Tucson has long been a place with the romance of the Wild West, even in the years right after World War ll, and that’s what drew all kinds of people there during the late 1940s and 1950s.

By The Foundation for a Better Life January 30, 2024
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When you reach for that bottle of wine this Valentine’s Day, do you know how healthy it is?

By Deidre Popovich, Texas Tech University January 27, 2024
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Goodbye, goofy road signs. Oh, Arizona Department of Transportation, we have had many giggles from your wild and witty electronic messages that give us, the bored and tired drivers, something to ponder. Now the Feds have sent their own message to all states – “Electronic Road signs must be simple, direct, clear and brief.” Why take away our joy?

By Judy Bluhm January 27, 2024
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Business growth is a delicate thing. The local economy can be impacted by something as far away as Wall Street and as gossamer as a petty rumor.

January 23, 2024
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Seeing the inner workings of a hand, or the nervous system surrounding the spleen, doesn’t seem appealing to most people. However, “Gray’s Anatomy,” the corpus of medical students and artists for over 100 years, has the staying power of the world’s greatest novels.

By The Foundation for a Better Life January 23, 2024

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