Opinion

Cavanaugh Responds to Supervisor Miller

Before I begin my response to Supervisor Stephen Miller taking a knee in support of the CDC's bad policy, I would like to address him attacking my staff.  I hired four of the hardest working people in Pinal County.  Each week they read over one-thousand...

Pinal County Supervisor, District 1

On Wednesday, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors rejected over $3.3 million dollars from the federal government. The $3.3 million dollars would have required Pinal County to create a Vaccine Equity Coordinator who would be in charge of federal communications...

Chairman Offers Apology

On Sept. 1, 2021, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors acting as the board of directors for the Public Health District meeting turned down 3.2 million dollars of federal grant money to help the county with the COVID-19 pandemic. In my opinion, this decision was...

AFGHANISTAN: A soldier’s perspective

By Gary Michiel Montiel Anyone who is old enough to remember the events of 9/11 and the vivid imagery and raw emotion that day instilled in our country understands the reason we invaded Afghanistan. We were attacked on our own soil and we were compelled to defend...

Rural Arizona Redistricting and the 5 Eastern Counties

Many of you are learning about this redistricting issue for the first time. It happens every 10 years following the national census. In Arizona, we have a commission appointed to draw the new districts for Congressional and Legislative districts in our state. We...

Mayor’s Minute: Catching up on all things Superior!

Mayor Mila Besich What a busy year 2021 has been – it is hard to believe that half of the year has passed!  It’s been a while since I have written a  Mayor’s Minute column, and I wanted to take a minute to update our residents on a broad range of important...