Byrd Baylor, award-winning author of many beloved children’s books, and model, mentor and landlady for the No More Deaths camp outside of Arivaca, is recovering from cancer surgery. Although Medicare has covered her hospitalization, she has huge expenses to pay for the chemo treatments.
Several readers called me or wrote me after I wrote a column critical of the upcoming Ken Burns’ documentary on WWII. They basically had the same response: Latino soldiers in WW 2 were Americans. The men and women in the Army, Navy and Marines came from all ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds.
Ernesto Portillo, Jr., a.k.a Neto, is a columnist for the Arizona Daily Star. But when he's not stirring the pot on issues such as illegal immigration and Downtown redevelopment, Neto can be found listening to jazz music and enjoying Southern Arizona culture and cuisine. In this blog he shares some of his favorites things about Southern Arizona and Latino culture, and hopes that you'll respond with some of yours.
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