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25th Anniversary: Spur Cross retrospective ( Editor’s note: As we continue our retrospective on the incredible 42-month effort to save Spur Cross, we will focus on water which is one of the key elements identified in the last article by Gary Schmitt. Gail Clement was most generous in explaining three separate issues with respect to water, one of which Schmitt referred to as a silver bullet. Clement is a well known environmental scientist and water expert, having spent her career working with ...

But the pace accelerated once that federal law went into effect. one state after another putting on the books an official holiday in celebration of the civil rights hero. but not every state. a few cases, legislators balked at the idea of creating a new holiday. one of those places where it became a seriously contentious issue, seriously contentious battle was in arizona. in 1986, 3 years after that day in the rose garden, the democratic governor of arizona, bruce babbit, on his way out of offic...

Then it was up to the states to adopt it. some had already done so even before the federal law passed, but the pace accelerated once that federal law went into effect. one state after another putting on the books an official holiday in celebration of the civil rights hero. but not every state. a few cases, legislators balked at the idea of creating a new holiday. one of those places where it became a seriously contentious issue, seriously contentious battle was in arizona. in 1986, 3 years after...