How to Plan for Big Purchases Like a Car or Home Planning for big purchases like a car or home is essential to ensure you don’t overspend, take on debt, or face unexpected costs. Here’s how to get started on planning for your next big purchase. Determining the Cost of Your Purchase The first step is to determine the cost...
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When the topic of Incorporation comes to mind, I flash back to my childhood. I grew up in an unincorporated area of Maricopa County that went through what a small number of business people are attempting to do Vail, incorporation. Settled in 1870 by horseback soldiers, the town of Cave Creek was incorporated in 1986. Growing up in a rural...
Dear Editor, In the April 2023 issue of The Vail Voice, there were two articles regarding the possibility of incorporating Vail, AZ as a legal Arizona City or Town. One group, IncorporateVailAZ (www.incorporateVailAZ.org) is the group that supports incorporation and the other group opposes incorporation. The IncorporateVailAZ group has held...
My name is Jesse Bustamante, and I was born and raised in Tucson as a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. My community fought for, and won, formal tribal recognition when I was a boy in the 1970s. My parents were tribal council leaders which gave me a front row seat to the process of building a community, and all the challenges that come with it. I...
Since the day I was born, I’ve faced unfairness: not because of anything that I’ve done, but because of the poor decisions of my parents; another injustice that I was born with. Sometimes people face unfairness and discrimination for the choices and decisions of their parents, even though that has nothing to do with them. That’s...
There are many different types of dreams. However, most dream experts concur that there are three main categories: physical dreams, review dreams, and symbolic dreams. Physical dreams are just that: we have an immediate physical need, hunger, thirst, discomfort and etc., and our brain is sending us messages, by way of our dreaming mind, in order...
Friends and Neighbors, The City of Tucson, in partnership with Pima County, requested a Road Safety Assessment (RSA) be conducted by the Pima Association of Governments (PAG) along Mary Ann Cleveland Way. PAG has accepted our request and will be conducting the RSA along the entire 5-mile stretch of Mary Ann Cleveland Way, both in the City and...
Artwork appears in many forms from paintings to podcasts, architecture to gardening, poetry, film, and many other mediums. Even standing out in nature, we can see the artwork of the Divine reflecting back at us. There is inspiration all around if we allow ourselves to see it. How many times has a piece of music moved you to tears, to dance around...
Was I lost? It depends if lost means you don’t know where you are or if you don’t know how to get where you want to be? I was a little bit of both but not ready to eat humble pie! I missed a left turn on the 675-mile-long Arizona Peace Trail and found myself in an incomprehensible maze of rugged, century old mining roads. I knew I had to go...
Almost everything we do—from making a big purchase of a vehicle or home, to operating a vehicle and interacting with others personally and professionally—can implicate a legal concern. When do you need a lawyer? When might you handle a legal concern without one? Some challenges may be assisted, at least in part, with the help of another...