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SC Wire: Composting toilets help sanitation, drainage in sister city

February 22, 2012 by

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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…]

SC Wire: New border fence in Douglas, Ariz.

February 16, 2012 by

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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…]

Book Review: “Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City”

February 14, 2012 by

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Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City, by Andrew Ross, Oxford University Press, 2011, 312 pages. Review by Paul M. Ingram The cause remains a mystery, but in early October 1947, a fire incinerated the entire Phoenix streetcar fleet. The city, suddenly without a public transport system had two choices: rebuild the… [Read more…]

SC Wire: Nogales police looking at seized money to fund new station

February 10, 2012 by

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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…]

SC Wire: San Juan Bosco shelter hits 30 years of helping migrants

February 3, 2012 by

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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…]

SC Wire: Volunteers clean up local, migrant trash on Santa Cruz River

January 31, 2012 by

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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…]