by William Heuisler Ethnic studies is in the news again as hundreds of individual students leave Tucson Unified School District classrooms to assert collective victimhood from a U.S. society that delivers more freedom than the society they fondly bemoan in Mexico. Ironically, two current educational movements, Ethnic Studies and No Child Left Behind, purport to represent what...
My new year’s list of folks who never would be missed By Emil Franzi, Special to The Explorer Explorer News | • All the Tea Party constitutionalists who opined on talk radio that Gingrich and Cain would have made a great GOP ticket missing the constitutional...
Here’s my Christmas gift list. You’re all welcome: New UA football coach Rich Rodriguez—A clock with a loud-ass alarm that goes off after the Wildcat players have participated in 20 hours of offseason workouts each week. The only thing worse than a team with...
This weekend, just a couple of days after having joined their fellow Americans in celebrating Thanksgiving, Catholics from all over the United States are going to look to the heavens, arms outstretched, and say in unison, “What in the hell’s going on here?!” For...
It is important to remember that the Rio Nuevo legislation is a partnership between the state of Arizona and the city of Tucson. Both entities have a vested interest in its success. Tax-increment financing (TIF) legislation is a legal template used across the country...
