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Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center's 27th Annual Community Breakfast presenting the new Arizona Support Autism license plate. From left to right : Daniel Openden, President and CEO of SARRC; Joe Bradley, Support Autism license plate artist; Arizona state senator Flavio Bravo (D) District 26; and Denis Resnik, founder, president and CEO of First Place AZ hold their own personalized license plates. The event was held in the Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom at the Arizona Biltmore Resort on April 17, 2025. (Photo Courtesy of SARRC)

Pride in plain sight: the story of the Arizona Support Autism license plate and the autism-self-advocate artist who brought it to life

Gas prices at a Circle K location in Mesa, AZ on April 7, 2026. Standard fuel has up to a 10% ethanol blend, labeled 'octane 87.'

Live in the Phoenix-metro area? You probably won’t have access to E15 gas 

Vaughan (right) teaches his students about the history of Clonmacnoise, a 6th century monastic community, during the Study Abroad Ireland 2022 trip. There were no cities in Ireland until the 9th century, so communities like these were the only representations of advanced knowledge in early Medieval Ireland. (Photo: Barry Vaughan)

MCC’s Study Abroad program returns next summer

Gas prices at a Quiktrip station in Mesa, AZ on April 7, 2026. Arizona's statewide average is $4.57 per gallon as of April 21, according to AAA, over one dollar more than the statewide average in 2025. (Photo: Angel Marcos)

Arizona political leaders encourage EPA to issue emergency fuel waiver

Brian spends hours a day on the field carefully supervising and mentoring the Thunderbirds men's soccer team. (Photo: Erick Romero)

Thunderbirds men’s soccer coach reflects on his career at MCC

Gas pump fueling up a car

MCC students share how the fuel crisis has affected them

Final day for students to vote for next leaders of the Associated Students of Mesa Community College

Voters waiting in line outside of the SRP headquarters in Tempe on April 7, 2025, the last day to drop off ballots. (Photo: Gwendolyn Owen/The Legend)

SRP election saw high turnout, Turning Point loses majority

Cesar Chavez (center) on march from Mexican border to Sacramento with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California. (Photo: John Malmin/Los Angeles Times)

Mesa removes Cesar Chavez honorary plaque, street signs

United States Supreme Court building (Photo by Wally Gobetz, Flickr)

Future of mail-in voting uncertain

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Category: Opinions

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Movie franchises, the one thing millenials can’t kill

Mesa Legend Staff 05/14/2018

Marcus Campbell MesaCC Legend Millennials get a lot of grief for nearly every aspect of their lives; from how we choose to spend our time to how we choose to … Read More

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Campus parking chaos

Mesa Legend Staff 05/14/2018

Alli Cripe MesaCC Legend ‘The early bird gets the worm,’ is the saying for those who want to get things done.  The same could be said for scoring a parking … Read More

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Music videos finally mean something again

Mesa Legend Staff 05/14/2018

Jack Carroll MesaCC Legend Since the decline of MTV, the once giant purveyor of music videos to the masses, people have occasionally thought that music videos were a dying art.  … Read More

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It doesn’t make you a bad person if you like ‘House of Cards’

Mesa Legend Staff 04/29/2018

Jack Carroll MesaCC Legend It is practically impossible to escape these days, you turn to the news and see that one of your favorite movie stars or musicians have been … Read More

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Media saturation leaves people uncomfortably numb

Mesa Legend Staff 04/29/2018

Kian Hagerman MesaCC Legend The media can desensitize one to more than the grotesque or extreme that the world has to offer. Just about everything the world has to offer … Read More

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Baseball and bobbleheads: plastic toys make lasting memories

Mesa Legend Staff 04/29/2018

Rob Steiner MesaCC Legend People love a freebie, and sports franchises realized a favorite of their fans is the popular bobblehead of a favorite athlete. It seems there is an … Read More

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Sitcoms: The new source for right-wing comedy

Mesa Legend Staff 04/10/2018

  Jack Carroll MesaCC Legend As of April 2018, there are eleven late-night entertainment programs where politics, especially right-leaning politics, play the primary butt of the joke.  With shows like … Read More

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Teachers striking in Arizona deserve pay raise

Mesa Legend Staff 04/10/2018

Andrew TerHark MesaCC Legend Teachers in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arizona have began protests for higher wages in their field. Teachers and support staff in West Virginia went on … Read More

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Championship chaos: when winners become losers

Mesa Legend Staff 04/10/2018

Rob Steiner MesaCC Legend There are two things that are often guaranteed going into any sports season; a champion team that will be crowned, and a city will be left … Read More

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Legend’s VIEW

Mesa Legend Staff 04/02/2018

Self-driving cars could end Arizona highway woes According to the Arizona Department of Safety, there were over 740 wrong-way driver accidents from 2016 to 2017.  This issue has gotten to … Read More

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