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TO: City of Globe, Mayor, Council RE: Marketing money I have always wondered why Globe does NOTHING to market itself outside of its borders. We have Besh ba Gowah, The 1910 Jail, The beautiful Center or the Arts, Pinal Mountain hiking/camping, the lake, Tonto and many other wonderful spots but …
Op-Ed/Letters
November, 2020
August, 2020
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14 August
My Life as a Quaran-teen
By Natalie H. On the evening of February 26th, everything seemed perfect. My grades were good and my mom and I were at a meeting preparing for our school trip to Europe. We were going to Italy and France in March. I’d worked for a year to save for this …
July, 2020
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27 July
Good Rain
I’m in southern New Hampshire, visiting my brother at his new house – he’s just retired from the Army – and helping him put in a new vegetable garden. It’s a beautiful time to be in New Hampshire: temps are in the mid 70s to low 80s, and it rains …
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6 July
Tri-City Waste
By: Fred Barcon It’s with utter astonishment that I write yet another editorial. The Tri-City Regional Sanitary Board (TRSD) marches forward with their project, despite proof from neutral third-party engineering firm, Kimley-Horn, that concurs with what I have been pointing out for over 4 years. A third wastewater treatment plant …
June, 2020
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3 June
White Like Me
By: Diane Post At sixteen, I was traumatized in a ghetto in Chicago when I was there on a two-week work-study event with the Presbyterian Church. We twenty white and rural kids from Wisconsin went to the big city to meet and work with Black teenagers as a step toward dissolving …
May, 2020
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23 May
Resilence
by R.J. Ladd I suppose that for some, the current Corona Virus-19 is the first real crisis they’ve experience. For quite some time, I have been curious about why so many in the “greatest generation,” those who are now in their 80’s, 90’s and some even over 100-years-old, know about …
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21 May
Barcon says Board should not move forward with plans for third plant
By: Fred Barcon On May 18, 2020, the Tri-City Regional Sanitary District (TRSD) Board passed a motion to move forward with their plans to build a third wastewater treatment plant. Many of you are familiar with my past editorials, in which I point out several flaws with the TRSD …
April, 2020
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24 April
Frustration with federal funding programs outlined by non-profit director
I’m part of a small business, a nonprofit that serves some of the most vulnerable people in our community. Like most small businesses in our community, we’ve been substantially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are seeing an increase in demand for our support services, and we are working diligently …
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20 April
This Earth Day sees unprecedented rollback of environmental regulations.
Hidden Effect of the Coronavirus While the nation is coping with coronavirus impacts and precautions, countless Americans are dealing with new realities such as unemployment, food scarcity, and isolation through social distancing. For most of us, this means prioritizing the things in our lives that mean the most such as …
March, 2020
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23 March
A window of opportunity and the need to act
A new website made the rounds this weekend on social media – it uses data and modeling to predict the final window of opportunity that local governments have to flatten the curve and avoid swamping their healthcare system with COVID-19 patients. For Arizona, that window is March 29 through April …