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Since arriving in Prescott in 2006, I have worked as a physician and a hospital administrator to ensure that residents have access to the best possible healthcare.

When I was a kid, I spent a week each summer at a Campfire camp in Boone, Iowa.

It took some time, but the Democratic Party establishment finally recognized what had become apparent to most of the political universe many months ago — If the congressional midterm elections became a referendum on the Biden administration, defeat and the loss of both houses of Congress was inevitable.

The City of Prescott conducts a lot of events, and their mobile stage – for which they’ve done more than 500 events – is deteriorating.

Starvation. Poverty. People struggling to buy medicine and fuel. Disaster happened after one government fell under the influence of the world’s environmental extremists.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently lowered its drinking water Health Advisory Levels (HALs) for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perflourooctane sulfonate (PFOS) to concentrations far below what can be measured.

Chino Valley resident Tim Frandsen graduated from the University of Maryland in 1993 with a degree in business administration. Shortly after graduation, his college roommate suggested that he teach English in Japan.

Last month we had a couple of guests from Spain. Call it the unofficial Part II of our exchange program.

Question: “Your job is done, right?” Answer: “Definitely not! There is much more to do.”

Mike Fogel and I first met in 2015. I’d just started a long-term substitute teacher assignment at the local high school and Mike was the librarian....

Over the past couple of weeks, a few people have approached me as the chair of the District Governing Board for Yavapai College regarding athletics at the college.

Since 1912, when Arizona achieved statehood, groundwater pumping and surface water diversions have severely impacted major groundwater basins and seriously degraded five of Arizona’s major perennial rivers: Colorado, Gila, Salt, Santa Cruz, and much of the San Pedro, all sacrificed for economic development.

Midway during the Major League Baseball owners’ lockout of its players, I promised myself that I was done.

Growing up, I never sat at a politically divided dinner table, and throughout my years most conversations I have had with those on the “other side” have been nothing too exciting, issues were discussed, and our views shared. End of story.

One of the things I like most about my home is the landscaping, if you can call it that.

Returning to the state where he launched his candidacy — and the one that handed him the White House in 2020 — President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Americans to join him in a fight to preserve democracy and to beat back the forces of extremism.

We live in an incomparable town.

In recent days, the hormonal distribution in my household has become slightly more balanced as two of my three teenage daughters and several lines of credit are now off attending college.

The 2022 IRS budget is $12.6 billion, and for 2023 it requested $14.1 billion.

On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order to advance racial equity and to support underserved communities, an admirable goal, and one that most Americans share.

Last week, we set out to show our guests from Spain, in the United States for the very first time, the beauty of the American west.

“Half of that goes to the bank for your college fund!”

I recently had the pleasure of checking off another adventure on my Arizona bucket list.

The Democrats in Washington are doing another one of their zillion-dollar smash-and-grabs.

As a special House election loomed in an upstate New York swing district, conventional wisdom decreed that Democrat Pat Ryan would surely lose.