Columns

Another year, another installment of Empty Bowls — the event that supports Prescott-area food banks with a fundraiser.

COVID cases are up. Hospitalizations climbed 24% last week. But the national media make everything seem scarier than it is.

Keeping the City of Prescott clean, safe and free of unsightly debris, litter and trash is an important objective of mine.

When I was five years old and my father worked for a subdivision developer, the Tyree family was giddily comparing floorplans for constructing a new house on a wooded lot next to our crowded domicile.

The arc of Homo sapiens’ success, in only about 6,000 years since widespread use of the wheel, could be many more millennia from its peak of unimaginable accomplishments.

Sometimes when I write about my father’s civil rights work in Mississippi, I get emails telling me that I should be proud of his fight against racism at a time when it was neither easy nor accepted, particularly in a young white man.

The Wild West is known for its wranglers, but I spoke with a Chino Valley lady just the other day who might give the word “wrangler” new meaning.

There’s a lot of sad news to go around, but this Vox story really breaks my heart: animal shelters are overflowing with abandoned dogs and cats again.

In the early minutes of Wednesday's Republican debate, while everyone on stage was studiously ignoring the fact that their AWOL rival is a serial criminal defendant, ...

A recent Talk of the Town by Jeff Pace, “Public schools equivalent to self-licking ice cream cone?” (Courier, Aug. 23) compared our local and state school systems to a “self-licking ice cream cone.”

It’s hard to start over. I think we’ve all been there, where something we took for granted sneaks out the back door in a worn pair of running shoes when you aren’t paying attention.

No matter how you look at it, Babe Ruth swung a big stick.

It was a pleasure to celebrate the citizenship of a fellow Rotarian’s wife this week at the Prescott Sunup Rotary Club’s meeting.

The betting odds say the next election will likely be a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

Recently, the State of Arizona has taken action to eliminate the Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT), or sales tax, on rental property. This new law will go into effect in January 2025, and will result in an approximately $1 million reduction to both the City of Prescott’s General Fund and the Streets Fund.

A comprehensive list of American heroes would be a lengthy one. Such a list would include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Davy Crockett, Harriet Tubman, Audy Murphy, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Teddy Roosevelt, Clara Barton, and Helen Keller, among so many other luminaries.

Is our public school system the equivalent of a self-licking ice cream cone? The crazy sounding term refers to a bureaucracy or organization that is self-contained, that evaluates its own performance, and exists with little reference to or influence from the external environment.

Survivors of the deadly fires in Maui are being offered a $700-per-household payment by FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) and temporary shelter.

OK, we’ve all trundled through the holidays of Easter, Memorial Day, and the Fourth of July in pretty good form.

I hate to be cliche, but I’m going to tell you a proverb you’ve probably already heard a hundred or so times.

Voracious popular culture connoisseur that I am, I have been avidly following the drama surrounding pop icon Lizzo. As an academic who teaches race, gender and sexuality studies, the story has all the intersectional elements that make for a riveting story.

Last week’s column about the “Miracle of Fracking” has led to some responses that remind me of the unfounded myths out there that people still cling to about hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”).

The television program 60 Minutes recently took an in-depth look at the development and current state of Artificial Intelligence.

Another week, another lame Trump indictment.

Many people play the Not-In-My-Back-Yard card. It can be opposition to a new subdivision, business, powerlines, cell towers, … even billboards, or more.