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POLITICO Chaos and confusion: Back to school turns ugly as Delta rages Nearly 18 months into the pandemic, there’s no consensus on how to keep students and staff safe. Masked students work on computers at Tibbals Elementary School in Murphy, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. | (LM Otero/AP Photo) Link Copied School boards are at war with governors over masks. Superintendents are developing contingency plans on the fly. And schools that only just opened have had to shut down. Welcome to sophomore year for Covid-19. The Delta variant, which few had heard of when classes ended in the spring, is...

Gary’s Glimpses: Goodbye, COVID; Hello, Arizona! A flag in Prescott, Ariz. Gary Herron photo. Finally — after two years without a trip out of state — we “got out of Dodge.” (A few years ago, we literally got out of town to visit Dodge … City.) But this much-needed trip was another adventure into a part of the West we’d never seen: Prescott, Ariz. (By the way, it’s pronounced, as we learned there, “Press-kit.”) It’s an extraordinarily clean city, although there were too many loud cars speeding through the pedestrian-friendly downtown and, it seemed, everyone in Arizona sm...

Prescott National Forest officials say bark beetles have infested thousands of acres of ponderosa pines in the area.

Contested Voter ID Bill Dies In State Legislature A contested bill that sought to provide new identification requirements for voters using mail-in ballots

Coconino County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested an Ash Fork man for allegedly pointing a gun at a car during a road rage incident Monday.