My guest today is Terry Greene Sterling. She and co-author Jude Joffe-Block wrote,
Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Versus
the
Latino Resistance.
Last week we spoke about Arpaio s background as the son of an Italian immigrant, his time at the Drug Enforcement Agency going back to the beginning of the drug war in the US, and his talent for shaping his persona and the narratives around a variety of issues, including immigration.
The book is also an exploration of the fallout of Arpaio s policies and how they inspired a Latino resistance movement in the state that, Sterling says, is asserting its political power still.
Arizona Edition: The Arpaio Era and Its Lasting Impact, Part 2
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Arizona Edition: Yuma County s Budget 50% Higher Than Previous Year
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The Transportation Safety Administration or TSA says over 1.4 million people pass through airport security Thursday. That s up from a little over 230,000 people on the same day last year, airports across the country are seeing improving passenger numbers but people flying is not the only measure of an Airport s health in a community, Gladys Brown is Director of Yuma International Airport last time we spoke, in September, she described a quiet airport terminal where interactions were few and concerns were high, with passenger numbers up I asked what things look like now.
22:17 When the pandemic started it dropped drastically down to maybe on certain weeks 2,830 passengers daily. Then come September it started to get a little bit better. We had some fluctuation over the summer, depending on what was placed in the media, by Sept. we were right about the low 100-180. We were seeing that on a daily, daily departure our arrival that s about how many people were coming through the terminal.
If people were very socially distant, you can tell nobody really looked at each other, everybody, you know pretty much kept beyond the six-foot separation. And then, over the last six-seven months, we started to see a gradual increase, and then just recently with our increase in fight frequencies, people having the vaccines, folks are feeling a little bit more comfortable regardless of whether or not they were vaccinated. We ve seen a good increase and we saw a steady increase over those months, especially with vaccinations coming out, and it being more, mor