Category: Archive

Enrique Urrutia When one thinks of the Arizona Cardinals and the Phoenix Suns, Mesa small businesses usually do not spring to mind, much less the idea that they might be … 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

Matt Schaeffer Safety in sports is always a concern. Sometimes the attempt to improve player safety can alter the way the game is played. This can be for better or … Read More

Ryan McCullough Amid more advertising than the year before, MCC’s Homecoming saw what some described as a meager turn out. Whiskey Ranch provided free food; pulled pork or chicken sandwiches, … 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

Walt Porter Boyd Packer’s recent comments on homosexuality have amplified the tension between religion and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual community (LGBT). Packer is the president of the … 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

Joseph Starkloff On Nov. 21 the All Saints Catholic Newman Center at ASU held its monthly Behold event. Young Catholics arrived at 7 p.m. to hear a special guest speaker … Read More

Lucas Hrusovszky A student recently reunited with her biological father and attended his competition in the Arizona Division of the 2010 Special Olympics.Oct. 15 marked the beginning of the Aquatics … Read More

Michael Culpepper The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded the city of Mesa a $3 million grant to help combat the community’s low college completion rate.Being one of only … Read More