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MCC student leads makeup design for Julius Caesar theatre production

MCC brings back marching band competition

Residents push back on Mesa PD’s 16-year-long agreement with ICE

Chandler Museum expands Japanese American exhibit

Send Me Anything / Children’s Playground, Manzanar, California; archival pigment print on rag paper. Photo by Dean Terasaki. Letters courtesy of the T.K. Pharmacy Collection, Densho.

Chandler Museum debuts exhibit featuring Japanese American internee letters through photographer’s lens

Mesa Councilmember Julie Spilsbury embraces a supporter at an Election Day watch party on Nov. 4, 2025. (Photo by Gwendolyn Owen/The Legend)

Turning Point-backed candidate defeats Mesa councilmember in recall election

Turning Point USA backs recall effort against Mesa councilwoman over homeless housing, Harris endorsement

MCC hosts zine workshop for World Mental Health Day to help students de-stress

Federal work study change affects MCC students. Here’s how

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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Category: Opinions

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Free college education and the financial aid system

Mesa Legend Staff 10/12/2015

Joe Jacquez Mesa Legend Since I arrived at Mesa Community College, I have noticed one major difference between the average high school student and the average college student: college students … Read More

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Legend’s VIEW

Mesa Legend Staff 09/27/2015

What we need is people power There’s a story of a man who was boarding a train in Perth, Australia, who had slipped in the gap of a train carriage … Read More

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Insecure belief systems engenders war

Mesa Legend Staff 09/27/2015

Kathryn Yslas Mesa Legend What do teenagers, religious extremists and Kim Davis all have in common?  No, it’s not a misguided sense of importance. It’s not because they think they … Read More

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Cultural appropriation vs. Cultural integration

Mesa Legend Staff 09/27/2015

  Cultural appropriation Karlyle Stephens Mesa Legend People who want to believe that racism doesn’t exist or is not that bad, have much in common with those who see nothing … Read More

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Common courtesy, respect lose out to digitization

Mesa Legend Staff 09/27/2015

Adella Helton Mesa Legend With such an emphasis placed on one’s digital presence today, the focus on effective, respectful communication seems to be changing.  Many young people these days shun … Read More

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Sexuality breeds contradictions in America

Mesa Legend Staff 09/14/2015

Katie Yslas Mesa Legend We’ve all seen that commercial: beautiful young woman licks her full red lips before proceeding to slide an overpriced hamburger into her mouth in a way … Read More

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Words hold power

Mesa Legend Staff 09/14/2015

Sebastian Miguel Mesa Legend Words have the potential to produce positive or negative consequences.   They have the ability to build a person up or tear them down. A spoken verse … Read More

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Tribalism prevents people unifying

Mesa Legend Staff 09/14/2015

Kian Hagerman Mesa Legend People all too often run to the relative safety of what they know when confronted.  Instead of looking at a thought or idea contrary to our … Read More

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Be mindful of Facebook associations

Mesa Legend Staff 09/14/2015

Adam Dangerfield Mesa Legend What’s in your Facebook? That’s a question I have been asking myself lately. I am, by no stretch of the imagination, a social media butterfly.  If … Read More

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Legend’s VIEW

Mesa Legend Staff 09/14/2015

Mass media influences violence Following the on air murders of 2 journalist in Virginia, many are expressing despair with the frequency of these senseless violent acts, and also with the … Read More

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