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Episode 332: STEM Education For Blind Students

Exploring methods to enrich education for those with visual impairments. Plus, DACA expires in 6 months.

Episode 154: Tucson Helps Harvey Victims

Plus, a visit to a research site on Tumamoc Hill, and a city decision about guns seized in investigations.
Make Way for Books aims to improve access to high-quality early-childhood education.

Episode 153: Mentoring and Caring For Tucson's Kids

Exploring the different organizations and efforts working to serve youth in Southern Arizona.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals has granted status to around 800,000 recipients since 2012.

Episode 331: What's Next for the Program Protecting 'Dreamers'?

A decision will impact 28,000 people living in Arizona who have received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status.
Trump supporters attend a rally in Phoenix, Aug. 22, 2017.

Episode 330: Trump Comes to Phoenix

The president visited border city of Yuma before a rally in Phoenix, which was capped by a protest that ended in arrests.
Students have returned to Tucson for the start of class at the University of Arizona.

Episode 152: The Return of Students, and a Lively Events Calendar

The UA has a new president. See what's new as the school year gets started.
An inmate at the Pima County Jail uses a tablet.

Episode 329: Logging in When You're Locked Up — Tablets in Jail

Pima County has the only facility in Arizona allowing inmates to use tablets.
More than 2,000 people marched in Tucson Sunday in reaction to violent events at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virgina.

Episode 151: Confronting Racism in Tucson After Charlottesville

Also, rediscovering "Woman-Ochre, conversing with an 'umbraphile,' and memorializing lives taken by Mexico's drug violence.
Students line up, their first week back to school in the Tucson Unified School District during the 2017-2018 school year.

Episode 150: Back to School — Leadership, Teachers and Enrollment at TUSD

Also, Tucson crosswalks honor the LGBTQ community, and a conversation with a climate scientist about the future of water in Arizona.
The group Save Our Schools delivered more than 111,000 signatures to temporarily suspend a law expanding school vouchers in Arizona.

Episode 328: Arizona's Tug of War Over School Vouchers

Also, new laws are going into effect in Arizona, and a look at the start of NAFTA renegotiations.
Heavy machinery at the Port of Tucson.

Episode 327: Repairing the Sewer Pipe Crossing the Border in Nogales

Plus: A bipartisan group with a health care agenda, and a look at the Port of Tucson and Arizona railroad history.
City Council candidates, clockwise from top left: Ward 3 Democrats Felicia Chew, Paul Durham, Tom Tronsdal; Ward 6 Greens Michael Oatman and Mike Cease.

Episode 149: Who's on the Ballot for Tucson City Council Primaries?

Interviews with Ward 3 Democrats and Ward 6 Greens.
A Union Pacific train passes.

Episode 326: Past and Present of Railroads in Arizona

Also, a look back at an eventful week in politics, which saw the return of Sen. John McCain following his cancer diagnosis.

Episode 148: Companies Sign on for Planned Sahuarita Tech Center

Plus: Startup Tucson shifts direction after loss of funding to mentor entrepreneurs.
Students attend class.

Episode 147: Making the Grade - Success in High School and Beyond

Plus: an update on the state school board, why the sheriff asked the state to investigate his department.
A U.S. Border Patrol vehicle in the desert.

Episode 325: 1st-Time Crossers Face Tougher Border Policy

The Border Patrol will prosecute first-time crossers; the agency's Missing Migrant Team; a visit to the Kino Border Initiative.

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