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The Old El Conquistador Hotel - Historic Photos

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Click here. Video Our "classic" mid-century modern ranch house on the east side of Tucson, came with an artifact salvaged from the El Con Hotel - a solid, rough hewed oak beam that adorns the home's family room addition.  Boy, I sure wish I could find a photo of the area of the Hotel in which this beam once existed.

Telemedicine to the Rescue in Rural Arizona

Telemedicine Saves Mayor of Bisbee

It's Another Haboob For Phoenix

What's a haboob, you ask?   See the haboob!  

My Boot Camp Experience

My Boot Camp About a month ago, I got this alert from my Living Social account about a local boot camp one-month membership.  I took the bait and signed up.  It was $20 bucks. What did I have to lose?  Well, about 5 lbs would be a good start.  You may have seen my Facebook entries and Twitter posts about BodyZen Boot Camp from a few weeks back.  How hard could it be? I thought.   I can be at the park a couple of blocks from the house by 6 AM 3 mornings a week.  I am not employed right now.  I exercise regularly.  I'm pretty fit.  I can do this for a month. So what, that I just found out that my hyperthyroid condition has returned and I am now taking two prescriptions to slow down my heart rate and hyperactive thyroid gland.  Exercise is always a good thing. I arrived 15 minutes early the first morning.  At 6 AM, in Tucson AZ in the middle of July, it was already hot and muggy.  Ugh!  The exercise clase is conducted on the beat-up tennis court at Jesse Owens Park.  It

Lightning Over Tucson by Adam Block

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Nature provides the best fireworks.

Big overnight storm contrasts with day

Big overnight storm contrasts with day AZ Monsoons don't disappoint.

FDA OKs first-ever treatment for scorpion stings

FDA OKs first-ever treatment for scorpion stings . Tucson's U of A Viper Institute developed new treatment in partnership with Mexico.