Invisible fence should rope in mountain lions

Although they are stealth hunters and don't growl, screech or show themselves to their true prey, I tend to agree that the public may need protection from the Sabino Canyon mountain lions. The Arizona Game and Fish Department, however, has rejected every thoughtful recommendation for mountain lion control and insists on killing them instead. That 18th-century mentality will have to be changed sometime before we kill everything wild, so why not change now? [Read article]

Ah, the joys of a Tucson spring. Hailing from Seattle, I am astounded by the climatic wonder that is Tucson, where temperatures reach 90-plus degrees ÷ in the month of March, no less. Meanwhile, conditions in my hometown will remain damp and dreary. It's a place where brief glimpses of the forgotten sun instill fear in the hearts of the natives, the giant yellow orb in the sky is an unfamiliar, alien presence leaving one to regain composure in the nearest double tall latte, bottle of Prozac or Nirvana record that any self-respecting Seattlelites should have in their possession. [Read article]

The best in last week's editorials from college campuses across the nation

University of Rhode Island

It took the Spanish people a very short period of time to realize that the direction they were headed in was one of arguable futility. In the United States, we debate the decision to go to war on a daily basis and it is one year later. When we discuss what has come out of the way, the reason that we were given by our government is lost in the sensationalism of capturing a fallen leader and hidden under a veil of aggressive patriotism akin to the same impulses that drove the Sedition Act. [Read article]