Pakistan and Patagonia are worlds apart and one might be led to believe that they have little in common, but Brad and Aisha Sander have observed that the two places share an exceptional friendliness and sense of community. Since arriving in Patagonia last November, the couple have had numerous locals ask them about Pakistan, so […]
Bob Brandt
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FOSC Implements Three New Measures to Monitor Health of Sonoita Creek
It’s just human nature to pay little attention to something that we do not directly encounter in our daily lives. But when it comes to Sonoita Creek, we ignore it at our own risk. Were this modest stream to become polluted or suffer the fate of rivers such as the Colorado, the Rio Grande and […]
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Town Council Approves Park Plan
The proposal to upgrade Doc Mock Park was approved by the Patagonia Town Council at its December 16 meeting. This action gives the green light to the park’s design team to finish and submit, by January 31, the one-year and five-year master plans required by Arizona Forestry which issued the $14,000 grant that funded this […]
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Single Payer System Long Overdue
Ann Katzenbach’s article in the January PRT about Marshal Patterson’s laudable support of the injured Canadian motorcyclist was just the vehicle I needed to prompt me to write about a topic that has become almost an obsession with me of late: the badly broken US health care system. Marshal Patterson is to be commended for […]