Thursday, December 11

Month: December 2025

A Call to Action: How Your Work Can Put the Community First at PCC 
10Dec By Emma PetersonNo Comments
Business, Opinion, Pima News

A Call to Action: How Your Work Can Put the Community First at PCC 

By Caroline Hansen Supporting the Learner: Building a Better PCC Experience When a person decides to go to college, it is one of the most important decisions they will make in their life. When a person is starting out at their local community college, they most likely have not led a privileged life. When an older person comes back to get a degree and they qualify for FAFSA, chances are they really need the financial aid and need to get that degree as quickly as possible.  There are many reasons students might experience financial hardship, especially coming back to school later in life. Maybe it was a car accident, a divorce, an injury, or a job layoff. Perhaps they were disenfranchised from their former job or their field has been taken over by AI. Chances are, they aren’t b...
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A Look at Oro Valley’s Annual Tree Lighting 
9Dec By Emma PetersonNo Comments
Arts & Entertainment

A Look at Oro Valley’s Annual Tree Lighting 

By Jackson Melin The flyer for the Oro Valley Festival of the Arts and Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration. Photo courtesy of orovalleyaz.gov. The 14th annual Oro Valley Festival of the Arts and Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration took place Saturday, Dec. 6, from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The official tree lighting began at 6 p.m. at the Oro Valley Marketplace. Admission is always free. The event featured a wide selection of local artists, vendors and performers, ranging from artists and food trucks to jazz bands. Each year, the hope for the event is to attract attention from both tourists and residents. More than 150 artists and over 500 student and community performers showed up. Participants took pictures with Santa and built mini wo...
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9Dec By Emma PetersonNo Comments
Politics

MTG M.I.A? Trump Loses a Loyal Supporter 

By Jackson Melin Photo by Annabelle Gordon for Reuters. One of President Donald Trump’s biggest supporters has been Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Since 2019, Greene has vocalized support for the MAGA movement and gained Trump’s endorsement.  However, the president has been in office for just a year, and one of the biggest scandals has been the Jeffrey Epstein files. Multiple photos, videos and emails of the convicted sex offender have been linked to Trump, and that might have been the final straw for her.  This is not the first issue Greene has pushed back against. Throughout his second term, she’s challenged Trump on his handling of the cost of premiums and rising grocery prices.  Trump has since called Greene a slew of names, including “...
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9Dec By Emma PetersonNo Comments
Opinion, Reviews

Creating a Personal Streaming Service, Part Two

By Quinn Smalley Previously, we discussed what happens when we subscribe to streaming services. We end up discreetly spending hundreds of dollars each year to access just a handful of shows we want to watch. More importantly, we forfeit our ability to own our media.  It may not sound important to own a few of your favorite movies or shows, especially in an age of convenience and minimalism. Physical media takes up space and can be inconvenient having to get up and change the disc when you’re ready for the next bit of entertainment. But with that convenience, you needlessly open your wallet and sacrifice the all-too-important right of ownership and control. What if I told you that you could have the convenience we crave and maintain control over your media library? Having a DV...
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