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As her second-grade students take out their lunches, teacher Leticia Moreno quickly spots two with forbidden food - a burrito and quesadilla made with white flour tortillas. "I will get them peanut butter and honey on whole wheat," Moreno says, taking away the offending meals. Moreno is a teacher at the Children's Success Academy, a 10-year-old school on Tucson's south side for children in kindergarten through the fifth grade. The school is unique for its food rules - it bans not only white flour, but refined sugar and anything it defines as processed food. "It has to say 100 percent...

The religion of the left seems to be environmentalism, and the everyone knows what happens when religious figures on the right are exposed as hypocrites. Ted Haggard, Jim Baker and others have claimed to stand for one thing and privately lived a life that conflicted with their stated beliefs, and the media covered it non-stop. In contrast, the media ignore that the darling of the Democratic presidential candidates has again been nailed as an environmental hypocrite. Barack Obama was outed as an SUV driver in 2006, who said at the same time, "the blame for the world's higher temperature rests...

SIERRA VISTA — The southern portion of Arizona may be the anchor of an emerging megapolitan area in which the population in the Sierra Vista Subwatershed could double by 2050 to more than 110,000 people. All of Arizona is rapidly growing and major development is along major highway corridors from the north in the Prescott area to southern Arizona, which includes Sierra Vista and a large portion of the western part of Cochise County, said Robert Lang, an expert on urban planning issues. Officials and environmentalists say actions must be taken to ensure that growth is logically accomplished, taking into...

SIERRA VISTA — Growth in the Sierra Vista Subwatershed is mainly caused by the existence of Fort Huachuca, contends one of the leaders of the center for Biological Diversity. Phoenix physician Dr. Robin Silver claims documentation the center received through a Freedom of Information Act requests highlights increase in expenditures on Fort Huachuca. Silver says more money being spent means there are more activities going on at the fort. This, he said, equates to growth on the post and in the civilian community. Garrison Commander Col. Jonathan Hunter says this isn’t true. Silver, the center’s board chairman, is double counting...