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Figueroa appointed to Yuma County position focusing on economic prosperity for region Published: 12 May 2021 12 May 2021 Yuma, Arizona - Yuma County Administrator Susan Thorpe has announced the appointment of Julio (Alejandro) Figueroa as the County’s Economic Development and Intergovernmental Affairs Director. This position is responsible for planning, organizing and directing economic development activities to include attracting new industry, business and investments to Yuma County. The job also entails proposing and tracking local, state and federal legislative initiatives to benefi...

Why do words matter? A conversation with communities of color about the importance of words As a way to be a more inclusive community, we have created a space to start a conversation about the impact certain words can have in someone's life. We invited members of our Asian, Latino, Black, and LGBTQ communities to this conversation. and last updated 2021-04-01 22:06:28-04 ABC15 has been reporting on the importance of words and how discrimination can occur against communities of color when using certain words. As a way to be a more inclusive community, we have created a space to start a convers...

At the new large-scale vaccination site at State Farm Stadium in Glendale on Monday, Arizona officials performed vaccinations on a group of educators and law enforcement, members of the new 1B vaccination eligibility phase. The site will open at midnight July 12 and run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by appointment.

Trash is piled near the U.S.-Mexico border, where sewage from Tijuana flows through. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz On a stormy day, 1 billion gallons of water can rage down the river crossing from Tijuana to San Diego. None of that water is captured for reuse now among the two desert cities it splits, which are regularly prone to drought, because it’s considered polluted by sewage spills on the Mexican side. If successfully recycled, that water could prove to be valuable as the Southwest grows more water-uncertain due to climate change. Even so, the occasionally raging river is starting to turn...

Earning his doctorate from Purdue University’s Program in American Studies, Lee Bebout is a professor of English at ASU, where he is affiliate faculty with the School of Transborder Studies and the Program in American Studies. His articles have appeared in Aztlán, MELUS, Latino Studies, and other scholarly journals. His book, "Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies" (Minnesota 2011), examines how narratives of myth and history were deployed to articulate political identity in the Chicano movement and postmovement era. His second book, "Whiteness on the Border...