The mere act of flicking on a light switch is something that can’t be taken for granted on the Navajo reservation, where tens of thousands of homes still lack electricity. Nowhere else in America do so many live in darkness, a fact driven home by this eye-popping stat: More than 18,000 households on the reservation […]
Entries Tagged as 'Arizona'
Turn Off the Dark
October 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags:Arizona·corruption·crime·Native Americans·Navajo·New Mexico·politics
By the Time I Get to Arizona
September 14th, 2010 · Comments Off on By the Time I Get to Arizona
Heading to the rural Southwest this morning for work, so please absorb this dreamy slice of soul as I zoom through American airspace. Back tomorrow, motel WiFi willing.
Tags:Arizona·Black Ivory·music·R&B
The Men With Weathered Hands
April 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment
Given that our stance on immigration tends to dovetail quite nicely with a certain hoity-toity newsmagazine, we can only shake our heads at Arizona’s latest legislative shenanigans. Sure, we probably shouldn’t be surprised by anything that comes out a state that often seems content to go its oddball way (to Chuck D.’s tremendous displeasure). But […]
Farewell, Sonny Jim
October 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Sad news out of New Mexico this morning: Sonny Jim, a true legend of the Indian rodeo scene, was gunned down during a property dispute. A man of Modoc descent who’d long lived in Navajo country, Sonny Jim was the nation’s top Indian cowboy during the early 1970s, renowned for his long, luxuriant hippie hair […]
Tags:Arizona·cowboys·crime·New Mexico·rodeo·Sonny Jim·sports
“Gambling, Golf, and Gangsters”
February 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on “Gambling, Golf, and Gangsters”
An excellent New York Times piece on the murder of Oakland newspaper editor Chauncey Bailey is today’s must-read, at least if you (like me) are something of a journalism geek. The article’s one flaw is an all-too-brief namecheck of The Arizona Project, a multi-paper investigation into the 1976 assassination (via car bomb) of Arizona Republic […]
Tags:Arizona·crime·journalism