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Word of advice to the President and especially to Arizona’s appointed Senator, if the next Supreme Court justice doesn’t unconditionally support protecting pre-existing conditions and upholding the health care law of the land, Arizonans will remember in November and mark their ballot for Joe Biden and Mark Kelly.

Sen. McSally just sent a letter (http://bit.ly/FDAdogtests) to the FDA urging it to expedite efforts allowing drug companies to employ modern technologies like organs-on-chips instead that would get safe, effective drugs—including COVID-19 treatments—to patients more quickly and cheaply.

Online school is an adjustment. Let’s support one another as families adjust to this environment for the first time.

Dear Editor, September is Suicide Prevention Month and it’s important that we are there for each other and take steps to prevent suicide. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s theme for the month is to #KeepGoing, by taking simple actions ...

To reduce strategic vulnerabilities and lessen global environmental harm, Congress should speed the domestic production of key metals and minerals. The U.S. already adheres to the world’s strictest mining safety and environmental standards. It makes no sense to tolerate China’s continued stranglehold over these key commodities.

Dear Editor: Living in the Valley is a dream for most of us. I’m not sure that is still true for some of us.  The friendly atmosphere that I’ve always known doesn’t feel the same.  For a large group of ...

Your vote = your voice, and it is more important than ever that every registered voter speaks out this election cycle.

If Republicans want to play dirty, then they’ll find the fight they’re looking for here. If they think the largest, most diverse, most educated generation in American history will take this lying down, they have another think coming.

We should consider this pandemic a baby trial run knowing that a much bigger monster is on the horizon. Anti-biotic resistant bacteria will inevitably break out before long, expected to kill over 10 million per year by 2050. And, another more lethal virus, perhaps a mutation of Covid19, is certainly waiting out there.

  To increase health care access and decrease cost, government should get out of the way and empower proven health care professionals to do their jobs.  We are practicing Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs, or Nurse Anesthesiologists) and we know ...