Bullion Plaza Museum featured

Arizona Highways will be doing a feature piece in their August issue on historic schools throughout the state . Photographer, Richard Mack was in town yesterday to photograph Bullion Plaza in Miami which now serves as a cultural center and museum.  The school was “…opened in 1923 as a segregated school for Mexican and Indian children in the area. It became a place of pride and through the efforts of many,evolved from a close-minded,segregated school system, to one of equality and opportunity.  (See our piece on the Mighty Vandals of 1951) . … Continue Reading

Miami’s Sewer Politics Part I

This is part one is a series on Miami’s Sewer woes and the politics of service.

Time to Pay the Piper

The phrase, ‘Up S*&% Creek without a paddle comes to mind when one looks at Miami’s sewer problems. It’s not that Miami is unique in its unenviable position in facing a complete break down of its sewer lines.  Communities from Kingman to Glendale are raising sewer rates, floating municipal bonds and hoping on a prayer and a song that their sewer systems will last just long enough to allow them to find a solution.

In Miami it seems, the prayers have run dry. There is no option but action on a sewer system which has seen one too many repairs. There are places in Miami where sewage has been seen flowing in the streets and down hillsides as a result of broken or over-taxed pipes and several major collapses have cost the city big bucks they don’t have just to make temporary fixes.

It is time to face facts…and pay the piper. … Continue Reading