Your trusted source for news of the Gila Valley and more.
TweetPinShareColumn By Melissa Martin How do you calm frazzled nerves? While some plug into tunes and others sit down with a cup of herbal tea, others are reading for pleasure. …
Reading for pleasure reduces stress Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By Melissa Martin Bake an old-fashioned homemade apple pie and slather with vanilla ice cream — jumping jamboree! Let’s stop and gives thanks because America is home sweet home. Free Speech …
Celebrate the First Amendment Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald: U.S. Rep. Tom O’Halleran responds to a question during a roundtable discussion when he visited Pima. O’Halleran has called for politicians from both sides of …
O’Halleran urges for bipartisanship Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson Photo/Gila Herald Column By Melissa Martin Picturesque views of sky, sea, and sand. Oceanic experiences with wet creatures, lush vegetation, and tropical trends. Soothing sounds, salty smells, and …
Living in paradise comes with a price Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By Melissa Martin Physical pain. Emotional pain. Spiritual pain. Take a poetry pill, rub on a soothing balm in the form of a poem, or write rhyming or non-rhyming …
Poetry as medicine Read More
TweetPinShareFile Photo By Walt Mares Column By Walt Mares It is the early 1960s. The location is the high-altitude San Luis Valley that straddles the Colorado-New Mexico border and it …
A childhood memory Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By Melissa Martin It’s so curious to me how society is blazing with controversy on gun control, but not on video games that depict characters killing each other with guns. …
Fortnite, another violent video game Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By Melissa Martin Suicide is the second leading cause of death for young people ages 15 to 34, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. A 2017 study (JAMA …
Suicide contagion and teens Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By Melissa Martin My grandmother’s and mother’s generation believed medical doctors were the gods of medicine. Physicians were always right—and not to be challenged on diagnoses or treatment. Medical school …
How to talk so your doctor will listen Read More
TweetPinShareThis photograph shows, from left, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, and Harvey Samuel Firestone – the fathers of modernity – meeting together Feb. 11, 1929. Photo c/o Herbert Hoover Library. …
Should I invest in Ford and General Electric? Read More