OPINION — Body-worn camera videos and surveillance footage of the July 19 incident on Mill Avenue tell a far different story than the snippet of video posted to Facebook.
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OPINION — When people think about financial planning, they usually think about numbers. Retirement balances, investment returns, college savings goals and market performance tend to dominate the conversation. Families spend years building financial security, carefully setting aside resources intended to support loved ones and create a lasting legacy.
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OPINION — Each year, thousands of Arizonans experience sudden cardiac arrest, with the vast majority happening outside of a hospital setting. When the heart stops, blood flow to the brain is cut off, and every minute without cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation reduces the chance of survival. Too often, the outcome depends on whether a bystander knows CPR and whether an automated external defibrillator is nearby.
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Recently, I reviewed Swing Left Maricopa County’s schedule of online events. I emailed and asked why there was no event featuring Bernadette Greene-Placentia. The response was revealing:
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Seventy-nine percent of voters — including 78% of independents — support better access to coverage for Alzheimer’s detection and treatment, according to a poll released in May. Eighty-nine percent say coverage restrictions from Medicare and private insurers are blocking patients from getting the drugs that their doctors want to slow the disease. An equal number worry that doctors avoid Alzheimer’s tests and treatments because insurers might not cover them. They are right to worry.
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OPINION — For months, our community has watched a very public disagreement unfold between the East Valley Institute of Technology and nine East Valley school districts, including Tempe Union. Many parents have understandably asked a simple question: Why are two longtime partners suddenly at an impasse?
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OPINION — I was happy to learn recently that our Attorney General Kris Mayes was able to at least stall Department of Homeland Security’s plan to convert the industrial warehouse in Surprise into an ICE detention facility.
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OPINION — When most people hear the word, “scientist,” they picture someone in a white lab coat working in a laboratory. They probably don’t picture a farmer in southeastern Arizona, a librarian in a small town or a student on the Navajo Nation, but they should.
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OPINION — Two recent letters reveal different versions of the same secular mistake. Alfred Southall claims America is not a Christian nation but a “secular democratic republic,” then defines a …
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OPINION — For years, we have talked about America’s skilled labor shortage as if it is a pipeline problem, but it isn’t. The issue is not that Americans lack interest in pursuing high-demand careers, it’s that the systems designed to connect workers, training and jobs don’t work together.
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OPINION — The reviews of “Toy Story 5” have settled into a comfortable consensus: It’s a movie about children and digital screens, and about the parents who worry over them. Director and co-writer Andrew Stanton has said as much, describing the film’s central crisis as the fact that “nobody’s really playing” anymore. The tears in theaters, the BBC declared, belong to parents watching a child’s loneliness unfold.
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OPINION — The last cycle showed me a lot, especially how much religion influences certain candidates. It also made me wonder how much that should matter to me as a voter.
Let it be clear, …
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