Mesa Legend

Brian Bernadel On Nov. 25 Thanksgiving will be upon us, and families across the country will be gathering to spend the holiday together.”Thanksgiving is an American holiday and it began … 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

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

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

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

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