The fence along the U.S.-Mexico border near Sasabe, Ariz. (Elizabeth Perez, NYT Institute)
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NFL’s Big Show Not So Super for Some Glendale Residents
Frances Durman says she’s a victim of the NFL Super Bowl. She says she was forced to move out of her home so fans can rent it. Durman is one person in Glendale, Ariz., not benefiting from the arrival of the largest single sporting event a city can host.
At a Church Haven for Day Laborers, New Law Brings New Uncertainty
The new employer sanctions law that took effect Jan. 1 has cast a sense of uncertainty over a local church that advocates for day laborers seeking work from by drive-by employers.
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Splitting Loyalties: One Mobster, Two Families
Inside an Arizona funeral home, the most prominent image at the Jan. 6 wake for the former mobster Salvatore “Bill” Bonanno showed him at his 1956 wedding, a picture that symbolized two loyalties he had to honor: the Mafia and his family.
- Also published in The New York Times: Even in Exile, a Mobster Never Forsook His Code
- From the Blog: Bonanno Stare-Down
Sweat. Feed the Soul. 
Improve Life. Sweat Some More.
Long practiced by indigenous people across North and South America, the sweat lodge is having a resurgence among Native Americans and is helping Mexican-Americans in Tucson and beyond reconnect with their indigenous roots.
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Late on a Fateful Night, 3 Young Lives Came to Collide
To find out about the life of Derreck Burruss, Tucson’s first homicide victim of 2008, talk to family and friends who describe him as the guy with a “Colgate smile” stretching from ear to ear.
