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Dr. Leyba Ruiz attends Mesa Legend’s education open forum

The Arizona Student Vote Summit brought a day of voter education to Mesa Community College

MCC hosts Mesa Public Schools open forum ahead of election

A directional sign on Mesa Community College's Southern and Dobson Campus

Higher tuition creates financial challenges for international students

The Mesa Thunderbirds women's cross country team pose for a selfie

Thunderbirds cross country chases titles

Mesa Legend hosts education open forum

Candidates (from left) Rachel Walden, Jason Smithson, Josh Chilton, and Jennifer Echols participated in a forum on Sept. 16 at the Mesa Public Schools Governing Board Room hosted by the Mesa Chamber of Commerce. (Photo: Mesa Public Schools)

Mesa Community College hosts public forum for the Mesa Public Schools Governing Board election

Gas prices advertised at a Quiktrip location in Mesa, AZ on April 7, 2026. (Photo: Jak Holdcraft)

MCC says ongoing fuel crisis has changed their spending habits

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 

Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Skip the Holiday Episode
Opinions

Skip the Holiday Episode

Sydney Ritter 01/28/2020

There is no worse episode of television than the ‘holiday episode’ that pops up-while you’re binge watching your favorite show. I’m not a complete Scrooge. I enjoy a good holiday … Read More

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Women’s Basketball Coach: Kori Stephenson
Sports

Women’s Basketball Coach: Kori Stephenson

Nienke Onneweer 11/06/2019

Last year, Mesa Thunderbirds head women’s basketball coach Kori Stephenson was named the Region I – ACCAC Coach of the Year, but you’d never hear it from her. Despite leading … Read More

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Sports

Campus hosts Special Olympics

Brock Blasdell 11/06/2019

Special Olympics Arizona (SOAZ) hosted the bocce ball section of the Arizona special olympics at the Southern and Dobson campus on Saturday, Oct. 5. Over 100 athletes signed up to … Read More

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Sports

Thunderbirds Take It To Overtime

Brock Blasdell 11/06/2019

Mesa Community College’s (MCC) men’s soccer team competed against Phoenix College last Saturday in a home game that marked the eleventh game of the season. The Thunderbirds lost five minutes … Read More

Sports

MCC’s Unique Sports Shop

Allison Cripe 11/06/2019

Mesa Community College (MCC) is the only two-year college in the Maricopa county to have an online sports store. This idea was a collaboration between Director of Athletics, John Mulhern … Read More

Featured Athlete: Kennadee Coplen
Sports

Featured Athlete: Kennadee Coplen

Sydney Ritter 11/06/2019

Kennadee Coplen has been playing volleyball since eight years old. At first she wasn’t as skilled as she is now. “Starting out was kind of rough,” Coplen said. “I would … Read More

Featured Athlete: Flynn Fuhrmann
Sports

Featured Athlete: Flynn Fuhrmann

Sydney Ritter 11/06/2019

In Flynn Fuhrmann’s family, you pick a sport and continue with it through high school. For his brother and sister, it was baseball and soccer respectively, but Fuhrmann decided to … Read More

Featured Athlete: Caitlyn Waller
Sports

Featured Athlete: Caitlyn Waller

Sydney Ritter 11/06/2019

Caitlyn Waller has grown up around soccer players her whole life. Her father, mother, older and younger brother were all soccer players at one point. Now her father coaches and … Read More

Opinions

Stop freaking out over Halloween candy

Allison Cripe 11/06/2019

The cautious view Halloween as a night of crime, delinquency, and mischief. This has further been fueled by reports of isolated incidents which have needlessly turned into urban myths and … Read More

Opinions

Sex-ed doesn’t sexualize

Marcus Campbell 11/06/2019

Recent changes to the states sexual education curriculum have re-ignited an old debate amongst Arizonans but has given it a new sense of hate. Arizona sex-ed has a number of … Read More

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