By Curt Prendergast – Nogales, AZ — It looks like President Obama didn’t have to pull an all-nighter to get his message on immigration ready for the State of the Union address. Here are his comments on immigration in Tuesday’s State of the Union address: “Let’s also remember that hundreds of thousands of talented, hard-working students… [Read more…]
El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, by Ioan Grillo, Bloomsbury Press, 2011, 291 pages Review by Curt Prendergast Millions of eyes around the world are watching a wave of violence sweep through Mexico, leaving a trail of beheadings and dismembered bodies in its wake. Without an understanding of the historical roots and cultural context of… [Read more…]
Read UA researchers fine-tune crops for biofuels, written by the Chronicle’s Paul M. Ingram and published in the Green Valley News: “Reaching beneath the mashing gears of a sugarcane mill, Donald Slack uses a dropper to gather liquid from the hopper. He dribbles the fluid on a flashlight-like instrument with an angled head called a… [Read more…]
Read UA scientist unravels Neptune mystery, written by the Chronicle’s Paul M. Ingram and published in the Green Valley News: “A University of Arizona scientist recently solved a 165-year old mystery. By examining images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager 2 spacecraft, Erich Karkoschka, a senior staff scientist at the UA’s Lunar and… [Read more…]
Read Iconic restaurant celebrates 40 years, written by the Chronicle’s Curt Prendergast and published in the Nogales International: “Despite the decline in tourism that has crippled many businesses south of the border, one Sonoran restaurant has managed to hang on long enough to celebrate its 40th anniversary. At El Balcon de La Roca Restaurant, located… [Read more…]
Her husband lifted her right arm, so that her hand rested above her heart. It was the only help Rep. Gabrielle Giffords needed from her husband Mark Kelly before she led a crowd of thousands in the Pledge of Allegiance. Her voice was confident, but her face had the mark of intense concentration as she… [Read more…]
January 25, 2012
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