Opinion

Here comes the summer heat again. We open all the windows every night, then close them when we get up. This works quite well. I haven’t yet been on the roof to flush the cooler or replace its pads. Even more delinquently, I haven’t yet installed our window screens, so while the house is cooling […]

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” (Written by Ben Franklin, sometime shortly before February 17, 1775) After the terrible events of September 11, 2001, I met with my regular group of morning coffee buddies. One was United Airlines’ most senior pilot, a man […]

If T.S. Eliot had lived in Arizona, he might have declared that June, rather than April, is “the cruelest month.” He chose April, as I recall from some long ago English class, because it gives false hope. June has its false hope as well—cool nights and early mornings with brittle blue skies—but the relentless heat […]

Brian and Lindsey Young, who were terminated from their teaching positions at PUHS in May due to a staff reduction, met with PRT in June to talk about their experience there. The Youngs painted a bleak picture of the work environment at the high school, describing it as a stressful atmosphere in which staff felt […]