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On one of her first days working in an Arizona hospital, Kelsi Shawd placed the bodies of COVID-19 patients into cadaver bags. For months, Katherine Hall watched her patients suffer, not sure whether they would die or recover enough to go home. Some nights, Johnathan Hopper drank 12 beers just to get to sleep after his shift ended at a New York hospital when the city was the epicenter of the pandemic in 2020.

She shuffles the cards with her eyes closed. “Just a few more times until it feels right,” she says. First, she asks you to cut the deck into three piles. Then, she advises you to re-stack them in any order you would like.

The final recommendations for a downtown Latino and Cultural Arts Center were made to the Phoenix City Council during a policy session last month. An ad hoc planning committee, created by former Mayor Thelda Williams in 2019, was a key step towards the completion of a project 19 years in the making.

If you walk across the library mall sometime between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. on Thursdays, you may see a group of students wearing gas masks and handing out flyers. They call themselves the North Texas Students Against Fracking(NTSAF), an unofficial UNT organization created in October by students Angie Holliday and Christina Bovinette.

In the Oct. 13 Phoenix City Council policy session, Councilman Sal DiCiccio received backlash from other members of the council and community for requesting that new OAT staff be ineligible for employment if they have previously engaged in activism.

After a 2018 shooting in Santa Fe, Texas that left 10 dead and 13 others wounded, schools all over the state rushed to prepare for future violent acts. One way they’ve done this is by arming teachers.

A lot has changed in the journalism industry over the last 50 years, but many things have stayed the same, said ProPublica Data Reporter Ellis Simani during the 2020 Investigative Reports and Editors (IRE) Conference.

When most people picture the war in Iraq, they don’t imagine soldiers handing out U.S. rations or sipping chai with the locals. Former U.S. Army Combat Medic Nicholas Van Ishem DelCorpo said these things were common occurrences.

Many museums have been forced to close their doors because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some, like Phoenix’s Pueblo Grande Museum have turned to virtual engagement in the absence of public visiting hours.