Things That Amaze Me, Chapter 1: Even though this would seem an ideal time for businesses to reach out to the community, to improve service, to ensure that customers are left with a positive impression, such initiatives don’t yet seem to have achieved universal acceptance. The result, say some I know, is that our expectations [...]
When you think of an occupation that might involve wandering into a crime scene or being threatened with violence, you think of a police officer, a detective, maybe a journalist. You probably don’t think of a Realtor. Yet Realtor and property manager Tammy Billington has just such war stories, and she wants to do something [...]
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Have you twittered yet? From Shaquille O’Neil to Matt Lauer on The Today Show-even President Obama-people are increasingly plugging in to the social networking phenomenon known as Twitter. Only a few years ago, most of us relied on our pagers to keep us connected. Next it was cell phones. Soon those technologies were eclipsed by [...]
Due to what are said to be increased rates of sexual activity, pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among Arizona’s teens, members of the Kyrene School District’s Health Steering Committee have concluded that a new approach to the district’s sex-education curriculum for seventh- and eighth-graders is necessary. Citing a published report, committee members refer to the [...]
Proposed new textbooks for Corona del Sol, Marcos de Niza and other district high schools are now on display at offices of the Tempe Union High School District. The books will be available for review by the public for approximately two weeks. On Wednesday, April 15, the school board will cast its vote for the [...]
When asked how he created his sculptures, the Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni reputedly replied: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” The ability to carve with artistry, whatever the material, demands that an individual possess steady hands, vision and an imaginative eye. These traits seem [...]
In life we all have our lists. Grocery lists. To-do lists. Get-organized lists. Recently I was able to cross an entry off my favorite list of all-the things-to-do-in-my-life list. I eliminated No. 17, go to Washington, D.C. As a young man and high school student who has been learning social studies and government since third [...]
