Tag: tackles

City Council Tackles Meter Reading Problems and Customer Billing Issues

This article summarizes a meeting held by the City of Nogales on September 3, 2025, addressing ongoing issues with discrepancies between water meter readings and billing. The discussion focused on the challenges residents face due to inconsistent billing cycles and the city’s efforts to enhance accuracy and customer service. The meeting kicked off with a […]

Recognizing efforts: A proposal from Tennessee Republicans tackles testing issues.

Concerns Over Standardized Testing in Tennessee Education As teachers across Tennessee return from their summer breaks, they are, perhaps, eagerly looking forward to what they genuinely enjoy—teaching students. Yet, over the past 25 years, the landscape of public education has become increasingly bureaucratic. From mandatory testing to debates about fair teaching methods, educators find themselves […]

New cold case unit tackles unsolved mysteries in Flagstaff area

Flagstaff, Arizona (azfamily) – Flagstaff’s new cold case unit is working to find the answer in unresolved cold cases, which are often overlooked. According to the report, roughly 346,000 cases have become colder and remain unresolved in the US. Project Cold Case. They can often sit for decades without answers, some never resolved. Jonathan Mosher […]

Rep. Ruben Gallego touts bill that tackles doctor shortage

A shortage of doctors is a problem in Arizona and is expected to get worse. As the state’s population grows, the state’s doctors are getting more gray hairs. By 2024, About a third of Arizona’s doctors According to 2020 data cited by the Association of American Medical Colleges, Arizona ranks 42nd in the nation for […]

Blind Veteran Successfully Tackles Mount Everest

A visually impaired veteran who refused to ignore his disability successfully climbed Mount Everest with the help of an organization working to inspire and serve disabled veterans. Former Navy Petty Officer Ronnie Bedwell lost his sight in a hunting accident in 1997. Yet Bedwell continued to challenge himself and “eventually became a well-known extreme sports […]

Tucson Family Food Project tackles food insecurity

Tucson, Arizona (KGUN) — Arizona has the third-highest rate of food insecurity among western states, and Tucson is highlighted as a problem area. A nonprofit provides affordable meals to students and their families while also teaching them how to cook. More than 100,000 people in Pima County suffer from food insecurity. The Tucson Family Food […]

Many questions remain as city council tackles NAH plans

We all agree that we need good medical facilities with adequate capacity. However, being familiar with Flagstaff Medical Center’s emergency and surgical services, I have my doubts about the proposal to move the FMC to a location south of town. — Does it make sense to have all services in one place? Even with new […]

Arizona Tackles Housing and Educator Shortages Together – Conduit Street

Arizona is developing a “Tiny House” craze to simultaneously address ongoing educator and housing shortages. Arizona, like the rest of the country, struggles to hire and retain public school educators and to provide an adequate inventory of affordable housing for those educators and other residents. there isand creative effort To address both issues at once, […]

First-Generation Student Tackles Poverty in Tucson: Jailyn Sloane, ’23

Jaylin Sloane Jalyn Sloan Graduating from Major Sociology Recipient of the Spring 2023 SBS Student Success Award, given to graduates who are the first generation of university students. Raised by her grandparents, Jaylyn is a first-generation student who graduates at age 27 after facing difficulties in earning her degree. Sociology professor Brian Mayer, who nominated […]