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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Escape through alcohol

Sara Harelson April 28, 2018

Enter a bar on a Saturday night and the scene is the same everywhere.  Groups of people drinking together or alone to savor a few moments of evasion from their hectic lives.  Some drink more...

The crowd dances at 191 Toole.
(Photo by: Paige Carpenter / Arizona Sonora News Service)

Concert venues ripe with drugs

Angela Vera March 20, 2018

Lanre Akomolafe, a local Tucson entertainment filmer and photographer, sees it now more than ever. “I was at Mad Decent Block Party, a music festival in Phoenix, Arizona, last year and a man fell...

Ending the epidemic by slapping wrists

Ending the epidemic by slapping wrists

Erik Kolsrud January 19, 2018

PHOENIX -- Gov.Doug Ducey, true to his pledge, now has a plan he hopes will stop the preponderance of opioids and reduce addiction rates. How? By giving bad doctors a slap on the wrist and locking...

Christianna Silva / Arizona Sonora News Service

Legislative Roundup – New Year, New Bills

Erik Kolsrud January 12, 2018

PHOENIX -- The Arizona State Legislature started this week with Gov. Doug Ducey's State of the State address, followed by the reading of over 100 bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate,...

From the eyes of a stripper

Natalie D'Anna May 3, 2016

  For six years, Joanie Smith led a double life. To most she was Joanie, the young single mother putting herself through cosmetology school. To others, she Regina, the woman who danced for...

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