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Arizona Spotlight for October 3, 2014

Tucson business report update; Voices for the Cure returns; Borderlands Theater presents new play; Tucson school district hopes to be more inclusive of transgender, gender creative students.

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Featured on the October 3rd, 2014 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

  • Zac Ziegler and Inside Tucson Business editor Thelma Grimes discuss requirements for starting businesses in the towns that border Tucson...

  • When recently divorced, newly unemployed Kim broke the news that she had breast cancer, her friend Jen says she knew what to do. Jen and her husband offered their home as a sanctuary for Kim during her treatment and recovery. In the process, the best friends formed new bonds as a family...

  • The Borderlands Theater's current play is They Call Me a Hero, based on the memoirs of Daniel Hernandez, the intern who saved Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s life. Luis Carrion talks with actor Luke Salcido and Borderland's founding artistic director Barclay Goldsmith, who is retiring after the production...

  • Inès Taracena looks at Southern Arizona school districts that have added gender identity to their non-discrimination policies in an effort to make classrooms more inclusive...

ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT airs every Friday at 8:30 am and 6:00 pm, and every Saturday at 5:00 pm, on NPR 89.1 FM / 1550 AM.

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