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Southern Arizona is dominated by two equal presences: the vast Sonoran Desert, and Tucson, the modern metropolis that rises in the middle of it.
The city of Tucson, and the surrounding communities, are a blend of Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo influences, with a very large Indian presence. This is the area most strongly associated with the "Old West." But for all that, Tucson is a modern metropolis, with world-class spas and golf courses, a major university (the University of Arizona), and a growing population of sunbirds who have come to enjoy the warm, dry weather.
Tucson, because it lies at a higher elevation, enjoys both cooler temperatures and more rainfall than Phoenix. Still, the summers can be very hot; but they're balanced by winter temperatures that rarely dip below freezing. For six months of the year, Tucson enjoys weather that other regions of the country associate with fall: cool, dry, and sunny. Tucson, in fact, averages even more sunny days than Phoenix: 340 days a year.
Outside Tucson lies the Sonoran Desert, home of the unique saguaro cactus. Although nearly all Americans are familiar with the saguaro—indeed, it's probably the first image that comes to mind with the word "cactus"—few realize that this is actually the only part of the West where it grows.
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Staying Safe in a Scary World
Many of today's seniors enjoyed an era where they weren't overly concerned about locking their doors and windows. They were even farther away from a time where they had to exercise genuine caution when talking on the phone or reading their email. Even the Read more...
Local News from Tucson Weekly via Yahoo! News
Mar 19, 2010 6:21 pm
The morning daily reports that a "newspaper article" examining the car-bomb killing of real-estate hustler Gary Triano had Pamela Phillips, who is accusing of hiring Ronald Young to kill her...
Sierra Club: Lawmakers "Moved Foward A Long List of Bad Ideas"
Mar 19, 2010 5:21 pm
The latest dispatch from Sandy Bahr, legislative lobbyist for the Sierra Club: Hi everyone! You would think that after all of the havoc they wreaked last week, the Legislature might give us a small br...
Democrat Nan Walden vs. John McCain?
Mar 19, 2010 9:21 am
There have been persistent rumors that the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is trying to recruit somebody other than City Councilman Rodney Glassman to run for Sen. John McCain's Senate seat, espe...
Rasmussen: Hayworth Closing Gap With McCain
Mar 19, 2010 12:51 am
Rasmussen's latest poll shows Hayworth just seven points behind McCain: Longtime incumbent John McCain now leads conservative challenger J.D. Hayworth by just seven points in Arizonas hotly contested ...
SXSW: Broken Bells at Stubb's Bar-B-Q
Mar 18, 2010 6:21 pm
So I don't really have time here to tell you about the awesomeness of last night's SXSW festival; it's my first visit to the musical madhouse and there's a whole day out there to experience. But, luck...
Mar 18, 2010 6:21 pm
"Market," by Ted DeGrazia, is among the works on display in DeGrazia Paintings from Diego Rivera Studio , continuing through April 30 at the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun , 6300 N. Swan. The g...
Making All Those HiRISE Images Even Cooler
Mar 18, 2010 4:36 pm
We've regularly featured images of Mars from the HiRISE camera on The Range, but now here's video of what some guy did with all those pictures: He created a fly-by using the topographical data taken b...
Mar 18, 2010 3:23 am
Jamie Arrieta serves up drinks and snacks out of his converted 1964 Jeep by Ariel Campbell Tucson has an active bicycle community, and Jaime Arrieta caters to that crowd with his mobile, bike-up caf, ...
Mar 18, 2010 3:22 am
The Cave Singers, The Dutchess and the Duke, The Moondoggies by Linda Ray THE CAVE SINGERS, THE DUTCHESS AND THE DUKE, THE MOONDOGGIES PLUSH Saturday, March 13 After a middling set by The Dutchess and...
Mar 18, 2010 3:22 am
Some 35 years after their groundbreaking show, the New Topographics photogs again share the spotlight by Margaret Regan After a fierce late-winter rain drenched Tucson recently, I happened to be drivi...
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Voyager Resort at The Bay - ELS
The newest development at Voyager Resort, The Bay, is an upscale manufactured home community. Our homes are custom built in Phoenix. These homes ground-set and finished with a beautiful durable sand stucco finish and each is fully landscaped.
Voyager RV Resort has it all... The special feeling of a real community, wonderful friends and neighbors and an endless array of things to do and go – all are part of the Voyager experience. Voyager means discovering all the "Best of the Southwest."
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