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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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Category: Opinions

Opinions

‘Get Hard’ not so funny in age of mass incarceration

Mesa Legend Staff 04/15/2015

It’s all funny and cute until someone gets expelled from school.  With colleges operating more like businesses these days,  Oklahoma University had no choice but to protect its image when … Read More

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Freedom for businesses should be a given

Mesa Legend Staff 04/15/2015

Businesses across the country have recently made news as a result of what many are calling discrimination.  Most recently, Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) came under fire.  The bill, … Read More

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Early elections evade essentiality

Mesa Legend Staff 04/15/2015

Much like Christmas, every year it seems that politicians’ announcements of their candidacy, for this office or that, come earlier and earlier.  Unlike the December holiday however, the perpetual election … Read More

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Responsible gun ownership prevents tragedies

Mesa Legend Staff 04/15/2015

It’s around 9 in the morning on March 18, and I am sitting at my desk typing away on my computer. My 14-month-old son is on the living room floor … Read More

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Legend’s VIEW

Mesa Legend Staff 04/15/2015

We grew up around mass hysteria. As children and teens, we fell asleep and woke up to ’round the clock reports of terrorist attacks and two never ending wars. We … Read More

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Public dazzled into ignorance by viral images and stories

Mesa Legend Staff 03/31/2015

Is the dress black and blue or white and gold?  These are the types of questions that consume the brain cells of my generation. A generation addicted to solving irrelevant … Read More

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Net neutrality negatively impacts Internet

Mesa Legend Staff 03/31/2015

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed legislation enacting Net Neutrality on Feb. 26, meaning the Internet will take on a different role than in years past.  Though the FCC refers … Read More

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Brain pain leaves people not the same

Mesa Legend Staff 03/31/2015

The science is in, and what has become utterly undeniable is that athletes who compete in contact sports get head injuries.  Such injuries, sustained over a career that for many … Read More

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Pop culture’s power to overthrow other cultures

Mesa Legend Staff 03/31/2015

Can pop culture get too popular for its own good?  We should share some concern about the possibility of it becoming the only culture we can  identify with. It might … Read More

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Legend’s VIEW

TheMesaLegend2 03/31/2015

The effort to become socially connected Facebook is now trying to help offer suicide prevention resources by sending notifications to users who may post something that may appear suicidal. It’s … Read More

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