It became a national story. O'Leary was the president of the Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary in Clifton, which is chronicled in 1997's "Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983," by author Barbara Kingsolver, a former Tucsonan.

100 Years Grand, which reminisces over Arizona’s century of statehood. The book covers various historical and cultural events, like the creation of state borders and the opening ceremony of the Arizona Inn. The book also includes a forward with...

It was at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in 2009. He said, “Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me.” I have a further memory, which I’d like to share here in the Corner. In 1988, Bruce Babbitt, who had been Arizona’s...

Babbitt was interior secretary during the Clinton administration. In the summer of 1998 I went to Prudhoe Bay, a major oil field on the North Slope of Alaska, prepared to listen carefully to oil companies eager to expand into the wilderness regions of...

And so Jon Huntsman is now officially the latest in a long line of Former Media Favorites who have taken the long plunge. You could even say he was right about on schedule. Go back over the years, back to Howard Baker and John Anderson in the 1970s and...

Americans observe the first national Martin Luther King Jr. Day. May 9, 1986, the Arizona Legislature rejects legislation to create a statewide Martin Luther King Jr. Day and roll celebration of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln's birthdays into...