Fernanda Santos covers Arizona and New Mexico as the Phoenix bureau chief for The New York Times. Before moderating a panel on rebuilding neighborhoods after foreclosure, she talked the trials and tribulations of learning Italian, finding the journalist within herself, and how to party with Arizona lawyers in the Zócalo green room.
How do we rebuild neighborhoods after the foreclosure crisis, and how do we keep people in their homes? New York Times Phoenix Bureau Chief Fernanda Santos opened a discussion at …
State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream by Jeff Biggers
The nutshell: Author and Arizona native Biggers chronicles the last few years in Arizona …
When Alberto “Beto” Escoto was 5 years old in Guadalajara, he would tap the kitchen tabletop in rhythm with the military band marching down the street. A fork and spoon …
Long before the Interstate 8 connected Arizona and San Diego, there was the Old Plank Road. The name is what it sounds like. Wooden planks provided cars with a way …
I didn’t appreciate how odd our courtship was until Virginia gave me up for Lent. We were both 16.
“I can’t see you for a while,” she told me on the …
How do we rebuild neighborhoods after the foreclosure crisis, and how do we keep people in their homes? New York Times Phoenix Bureau Chief Fernanda Santos opened a discussion at …
Arizona, with fewer than seven million residents, generates an outsized share of national headlines. Its rapid population growth, tough-on-crime politics, campaign finance laws, illegal immigration, and its distressed real estate …
Arizonans: Only Connect!
Despite what you might believe as a result of last year’s contentious immigration debate and this month’s horrifying shooting in Tucson, Arizona is not some rogue state populated …
One hundred years ago, Arizona was a very different place. From 1910 to 1916, Arizona was among the most broadly democratic, pro-labor, citizen-oriented, reform-embracing states in the nation. Its new …
