Featured on the August 4th, 2017 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- Nancy Montoya reports from Nogales on a massive sewer pipe break that threatened the Santa Cruz river. It's a potential public health disaster that may take as much as $40 million dollars to fix, leaving many to ask where the money is going to come from...
Santa Cruz County officials touring the extent of the damage from the sewer pipe break in Nogales, Arizona. (July, 2017)
- University of Arizona student veterans are working to return dog tags that were lost in battle to veterans of the Vietnam War and their families. Gisela Telis explores the ways this project is significant to two generations of service members...
- Film writer Chris Dashiell looks back at Lonely Are the Brave, a film from 1962 starring Kirk Douglas that owes its unique take on the Southwest to its source material, a novel by Edward Abbey...
- And, Mark McLemore talks with Sean Prentiss, the author of Finding Abbey, about his personal quest to follow in the Sonoran desert footsteps of the late naturalist, and come to terms with Edward Abbey's complicated legacy...
ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT airs every Friday at 8:30 am and 6:00 pm and every Saturday at 5:00 pm on NPR 89.1 FM / 1550 AM.
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