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Redistricting Commission Adds Tuesday Meeting

January 13, 20120

Phoenix AZ (January 13, 2012) – The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission has scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, Jan. 17, in…

Redistricting Panel Adopts Tentative Final Maps

December 21, 20110

UPDATE: The tentative congressional- and legislative-district maps approved yesterday by the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission have been posted to the…

Hope Is Half of Having
By Tommy Acosta
Not only was that hurricane a devastation in the physical realm, but also a devastation of the soul as well. Try to imagine what it was and is like for those whose homes, properties, businesses, families, friends, hopes and dreams were swept into oblivion by the rampaging floods. No house. No food. No water. No beds. No computers. No toothbrushes. No clothes. No paperwork. No phones. No service. No electricity. No communication with the outside world. No place to bathe. No place to go to the bathroom. No toilet paper, even. No stores to buy anything. No authorities to direct them. Just mud. Devastation. Everything is gone. Panic. Disbelief. Shock as hopelessness plunges its cold blade into the hearts of those who lost all. It’s unfathomable. Can we, living in the comfort of Sedona, imagine the magnitude of that loss? How will these people survive? Where will they go? Will their lives ever be the same? Ten, even twenty years from now? Read more→