While the long journey for equality in Tucson’s schools has taken a leap forward, questions still abound over what the judicial decision means for the indisputably successful Mexican American Studies curriculum.

With the daily silica-laced blizzard from five million pounds of toxic explosives in the background, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth and Rep. Louise Slaughter reintroduced the biggest no-brainer bill of the year for Congress — the Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act.

Askew’s fifth novel jumps into the timely debate over immigration with Grandpa Robert John Brown’s "conviction of the heart," written in the rawboned, heartfelt and often funny prose that has defined much of her earlier acclaimed works on the Great Plains.

While the president’s plan included measures to streamline legal immigration and "keep families together," the truth is that the record number of families broken by our flawed immigrant enforcement policy still remains in the shadows of the immigration reform debate.

In a line: The Pico Youth and Family Center should have its budget doubled, and its programs and leadership models replicated across the state of California and the country.

As we transition into President Obama’s second term, and as coal consumption in the global energy market continues to climb, Clean Break is the most inspiring and downright revelatory book to cross my desk this year.

While fumbling Tucson school officials await the fate of the outlawed Mexican American Studies in a federal court desegregation order, the prestigious Prescott College announced it will grant college-level credit for a banned Chicano/a Literature course.

If the U.S. Congress can’t even move off its own use of dirty energy — so symbolically small — is it any wonder that the annual UN climate talks result in such pathetic action?

After waging a tireless six-year campaign in the historic Spoon River region of central Illinois, residents in the small town of Canton are celebrating a state hearing officer’s proposed denial of a permit to a rogue coal company for a devastating stripmine.

While it is not clear if Acting Governor Bennett, who once challenged the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate in Hawaii, can refrain from carrying on Brewer’s weekly gaffes, the state is hopeful.