Mesa Legend

Walt Portman A local band of students creates a new crowd to raise awareness and support on a variety of causes on and off the Maricopa Community College District campuses. … Read More

Joseph Starkloff On Nov. 2, Dana Saar won the Maricopa Board member election for District 2 against runner-up Jerry Walker.Walker, a board member of 6 years, said he felt relieve … Read More

Michael Culpepper Standardized testing has taken a more complex form at MCC with the emergence of the ALEKS Exam.The Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces Exam, or ALEKS Exam, is … Read More

Ryan McCullough With the possibility of the minimum retirement age being raised from 60 to 62 in France, everyone from labor unions to university students have taken to the streets.Airports … Read More

Joseph Starkloff With all the votes having been cast, and in most cases the winners announced, I feel now is as good as a time as ever to gripe about … Read More

Joseph Starkloff Don Covey, the Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools, has selected Doyle Burke, who taught English at MCC for 38 years, as the replacement for former MCCCD board member … Read More

Jeff Moses The MCC Thunderbirds came into Saturday’s game against the Glendale Gauchos very confident for a team with only one check in the wins column.When asked if he was … Read More

Jeff Moses America’s Pastime, baseball, has been going through a makeover of sorts for the last five years. Gone, it seems, are the burley sluggers who belted 450 footers in … Read More

Jeff Moses As the MLB playoffs are in their championship series stage the Mesa Thunderbird Baseball team took the field to play its first scrimmage against the Paradise Valley Pumas. … Read More

Roman Chacon Steve Bass, MCC geography instructor, traveled across the country by bicycle this past summer. Bass shared his experiences in a presentation called “Bicycling Across America: a Geographer’s Prospective.”Bass … Read More