Archive for the 'Chinle' Category
Arizona Politics Trumps Economics; Students, Needy Families To Suffer
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 [...]
Read More..>>Arizona’s Sunrise Walks and Wildlife, Chimichangas and Historic Buildings
March 7, 2010 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Just a few of my Arizona favorites: A lone bull elk grazing on the lawn early one November morning as I stepped out of El Tovar Lodge at Grand Canyon. I never had seen a bull elk, much less been so close to one. Lunch at the Arizona Biltmore [...]
Read More..>>Canyon de Chelly’s Colors, Silence and Textures Create Seductive Magic
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. [...]
Read More..>>