Editorial latino perspective july 2006

By James A. Diaz

Tucson Pima Arts Council conducting survey

IRS creating new program to allow direct deposit

The Ability Center has opened it's first location

MCCC receives 899,972 dollar grant

Catherine Anaya and her co-workers at KPHO, CBS 5 tops in ratings

Compass Bank has hired Liliana Salas-Grip

Contrary to rumors, Quepasa.com is alive and hopes to thrive.

By Ruben Hernandez

Boys and Girls Club of Scottsdale gets seven awards

Latina learns size doesn’t matter, but appreciation does.

By Leticia Fields

Hector Martinez Morales has gone from strumming folklore tunes

By Ruben Hernandez

Chicano poet lights cultural pathways for Tucson teachers.

By Anita Mabante Leach

Friends and admirers of artist Luis Jimenez were stunned by word of his tragic death

By .,Anita Mabante Leach,Ruben Hernandez

This month and next, movies about real-life disaster and emotional indiscretion

Who better to imagine the thoughts, feelings and dreams of an Aztec teenage girl.

By Angela Rabago-Mussi

The Arizona Department of Commerce named Armando Contreras

Maribel Cortazar named Multi-cultural Marketing specialist

Lucia Madrid, former community relations director for KPNX Channel 12, has joined...

The AMCA recognized it's board of directors

Cingular Wireless has appointed Nina Segovia as Hispanic Market Manager

July 2006

My Mexican-American mother and Arkansas-American father did not raise a vegeterian. In my mixed-raced and mexed-culture family, vegetarianism and veganism were unknown, weird concepts.

By Nicole Greason

Ricardo Mazal: La Tumba de la Reina Roja from Reality to Abstraction. Showcases the work of Mexican-born abstract painter Ricardo Mazal

By Cristin Crujido

Few options left for those who didn't sign up for Medicare discount drug coverage.

By Erica Zarazua

Experts say childhood health is family responsibility

By Anita Mabante Leach

Dive into a summer exercising program with a splash in the pool

By Georgann Yara

For many of us it's been six months since our New Year's resolutions to be healthier.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences seeks volunteers for its Sister Study research project.

Parents and family members have access to healthcare advise at their fingertips

Writer faces bouts of depression with circle of loved ones – and hope.

By James Garcia

Biosciences scour landscape to add Latinos to work force.

By Angela Rabago-Mussi

Believers turn to traditional folk medicine to heal what ails them.

By Maria V. Piña

Arizona, long considered a cow town in Latino media circles, may be evolving into a Latino J-school capital.

A description for a Polls 101 course says all you need to know about what people can do with their opinions.

Francisco Abarca hikes the Tres Rios wetlands near 91st Avenue and Broadway Road in west Phoenix.

By Ruben Hernandez

Has LA's Assistant Chief Gascon been offered the top police job in Mesa?

Political pundit Will Rogers said.“There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”

Local college program trains Hispanic students for IT jobs.

Maria Muñoz, a doctoral student in history, is among three University of Arizona

By Georgann Yara

The student chapter of a noted law school in Mexico has been named for a University of Arizona professor.

By Georgann Yara,Ruben Hernandez

Arizona State University athletic games will be broadcast on Spanish Radio KIDR 740 AM starting with the 2006-07 season.

By Georgann Yara

For most adults, the biggest changes summer brings are the triple-digit temperatures that continue after sunset and a warm air conditioner

By Georgann Yara