Three Sonorans: News from the Borderlands Resistance
Uplifting the Latino voices of Southern Arizona with a special focus on education, social justice, and indigenous issues. Former college math instructor, turned aspiring author after surviving cancer 🙏🏽
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Another summer of surprise giant utility bills finds mobile home residents with few options (opens the original)
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📰 A DA Says His Office Never Independently Investigated the Cornell Case. A Tucson Thread Shows Why That Matters. (opens the original)
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The CruxA Tucson debate over a Cornell sexual-assault case reveals how easily “withhold judgment” can become a judgment built on incomplete information. When a prosecutor acknowledged his office had relied on campus police rather than independently investigating, commenters supplied evidence that changed the frame—and the columnist publicly changed his mind.Subscribe now<span style="color: rgb(109
🌸 What’s Left When You Can’t Look Away? (opens the original)
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Three unrelated Bashō haiku, translated by Kimiko Hahn and set beneath three headnotes of a news anchor reporting from the next room, become one poem asking what a mind does with beauty it can no longer afford to look away from.Read close enough, and the sequence isn’t about escaping the news — it’s about how far a person has to retreat from it just to keep functioning, and what that retreat costs.Poem a Day — a recurring lo
✊🏾 A Piece of Cochise Stronghold Is Apache Land Again (opens the original)
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The CruxA tribe descended from the Chiricahua Apache has bought back 55 acres in Cochise Stronghold — part of the ancestral reservation that once covered roughly 2.7 million acres. The purchase is tiny by historical scale but significant against the Fort Sill Apache’s own land base, raising a larger question: what does “land back” look like when a tribe can actually put a deed in its name?Subscribe now<
🏫 TUSD Candidates Take Questions From Voters at Tonight’s Governing Board Forum (opens the original)
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The CruxTucson Unified voters have a chance to hear four Governing Board candidates answer questions directly from the community tonight. Skye Fernandez, Tre’Davon Rhodes, Val Romero, and Pilar Acosta Ruiz will appear at a public forum from 5:30–7 p.m. at the CWA Local 7000 Union Hall, with audience questions at the center of the event.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1100738879121789/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A%2229%22%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3A
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