Archive for the 'Navajo Reservation' Category
Arizona Politics Trumps Economics; Students, Needy Families To Suffer
Mike Padgett - Mar 21st, 2010
March 21, 2010
EDITORIAL
Are Arizona’s leaders, struggling with an overpowering deficit, downsizing state programs too far?
Last week, Gov. Jan Brewer signed the state’s fiscal 2011 budget of $8.9 billion, which is a reduction of $1.1 billion.
Budget supporters called the new budget a streamlining of state government. Critics say it is hardhearted, with more pain to follow.
Arizona’s [...]
Canyon de Chelly’s Colors, Silence and Textures Create Seductive Magic
Mike Padgett - Oct 8th, 2009
Oct. 8, 2009
CHINLE, Ariz. – Time, with its tools of wind and rain, has created giant sandstone tapestries draping the sheer cliffs at Canyon de Chelly.
This maze of meandering canyons with about 400 prehistoric ruins – some dating to 2500 B.C. – is near the middle of the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona. Canyon de [...]