Read Binational border collaboration, written by the Chronicle’s Curt Prendergast and published in the Nogales International: “Thanks to eco-toilets that compost human waste, 75 families in Colinas del Sol, a hardscrabble neighborhood clinging to a hillside just south of the border, don’t have to use homemade latrines anymore. On Saturday, students from the Technological Institute… [Read more…]
February 16, 2012
Read U.S. tightens grip on remote Mexico border areas, written by the Chronicle’s Curt Prendergast and published by Reuters. “(Reuters) – U.S. authorities have upgraded six miles of border fencing in a remote Arizona ranching town with a taller barrier that will be tougher to breach, in the latest effort to tighten their grip on… [Read more…]
February 10, 2012
Read NPD taps illicit cash to pay for a new station, written by Chronicle contributor Marisa Gerber and published in the Nogales International. “Sometimes positive outcomes are born of bad practices. Take, for example, the Nogales Police Department’s planned funding method for a new station. The department, with its 56 uniformed officers and 18 other… [Read more…]
February 8, 2012
Read Gem show’s meteorites give ‘rare’ a whole new meaning, written by Chronicle contributor Will Ferguson and published in the Arizona Daily Star: The rarest rocks on Earth are actually chunks of other planets, and Tucson’s Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase is ground zero for the meteorite-obsessed. Meteorites – space rocks that survived a fiery… [Read more…]
February 3, 2012
Read Shelter marks 30 years of helping deportees, written by the Chronicle’s Curt Prendergast and published by the Nogales International: “For the past 30 years, the San Juan Bosco shelter in Nogales, Sonora has welcomed deported migrants with nowhere else to go. The shelter opened its doors on Jan. 31, 1982 and hasn’t closed them… [Read more…]
January 31, 2012
Read Volunteers pick up after locals, migrants, written by the Chronicle’s Curt Prendergast and published by the Nogales International: “Bright-blue trash bags dotted the Santa Cruz River on Saturday morning as more than 120 volunteers cleaned up the river south of Rio Rico. The cleanup was organized by Friends of the Santa Cruz River (FOSCR)… [Read more…]
February 22, 2012
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