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Verde River Basin Partnership Sponsors Event

January 10, 20130

Verde Valley AZ (January 10, 2013) – The Verde River Watershed Association in collaboration with the Verde River Basin Partnership…

ADEQ Announces Free Electronics Waste Recycling Event

February 2, 20120

Verde Valley AZ (February 2, 2012) – Arizona Department of Environmental Quality officials announced today that the second free electronics…

The Sad Lesson of Tyre Nichols
By Tommy Acosta
Having grown up in the mean streets of the Bronx there is one lesson we learn early on, and that’s don’t mess with the cops when they got you down, and outnumbered. The beating of Tyre Nichols at the hands of the police preceding his death at the hospital could have been avoided if only he had the sense to not resist them. People fail to understand that on the streets, cops are basically “God.” You can’t fight them. If it takes one, two, five, ten or twenty officers they will eventually put you down and hurt you if they have to in the process of detaining or arresting you. In the Bronx we would fight amongst ourselves but when the cops came it was “Yes, officer. No, officer,” and do our best to look as innocent as possible. People need to understand that cops on the street represent the full power of the state and government. Read more→