Promotoras are community health educators who are lay people that get trained on raising awareness about specific issues among hard to reach communities. Now they're partnering with the water company to also teach and set up rainwater harvesting systems. In a place like Tucson, saving a little water can go a long way to cooler homes, fuller vegetable gardens, and cheaper electricity bills.

These Promotoras Are Bosses of Rainwater Harvesting

The Tucson Pie Party has been an annual tradition for 13 years. This year, a new "homeslice" category rewards those who bake pies that taste and feel the most "close to home." That means a lot of cactus fruit, mesquite flower, and even green chile pork.

In Search of the Best 'Home Slice' of Pie

Zaira Livier is a full-time neuroscience student, a bartender, a self-proclaimed downtown Tucsonan, and a single mother of two kids.
She is also the founder of Latinas for Bernie, a Tucson-based grassroots coalition working to get presidential candidate Bernie Sanders elected. It’s an explicitly brown, feminist, millennial, mother-friendly coalition, and it’s the first national latina-focused grassroots organization for the Bernie Sanders campaign. 

In Political Organizing, a Latina Finds Her Voice

Is Tucson the ugly brother of Phoenix? Do Tucsonans ride around in horses and buggies?
The Dimelo team took to the hill last weekend (Tumamoc Hill, that is) to ask people a slightly touchy question - what stereotypes are there in your community?

What Stereotypes Are There in Tucson? Dímelo Explores

Selfies, the Kardashians, Snapchat and Tumblr– what do these things have in common? They’re topics the students in one Challenger Middle School class say their friends and family would rather discuss than voting.

Students Who Can't Vote Still Feel 'Big Responsibility'

“Oh I have never missed a vote. However, all I can say right now is there is nothing or anyone in the room I would trust with the red button. “ - Lisa Cameron

Reporter Mariana Dale and Sophia Paliza-Carre take to the streets of Tucson to ask you to tell us, dímelo - what inspires you to vote? Or what doesn’t?

Dímelo Asks: What Inspires You to Vote? Or What Doesn’t?

Life-long Tucson resident Gabriel Otero is the program coordinator at KPYT, the voice of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. While he takes a break from work, we sit with him in the corner booth of the Sunflower Cafe at the Casino of the Sun, and he tells us about life, his neighborhood and how sometimes the places linked to our memories get knocked down.

Gabriel's Corner of Tucson: 'Where else can you put your feet up and relax?'

Karen Schaffner, 58, is finally graduating with her bachelor’s degree, after stopping and starting her studies over the course of 41 years.

Four Decades of Perseverance Rewarded with College Degree

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Fingers Crossed (2017 Radio Race)

Sarah Barrett
Martina Castro
Sophia Paliza-Carre
Devika Bakshi

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