Ali
I crossed paths with Muhammad Ali at a book conference at the Anaheim Convention Center years back. The way his security detail — a large group of square …
Shooting Survivor Recalls Crime, Kudos & Threats
“It seems like both a lifetime ago and only yesterday since the shooting,” tweeted survivor Daniel Hernandez, on the fifth anniversary of the January 8th m …
Operation Santa 2 – The Dashing Away
Here’s the back of my car, loaded up as I headed off to the “wrapping party” I had with friends last Sunday. In Operation Santa, the participating post office assigns each child’s letter a number and (modern times being what they are) redacts nearly all private information except for fi …
Operation Santa 2015
These last few weeks, I’ve been busy with Operation Santa, a Christmas-season community program coordinated by the US post office and serving children in nee …
What happens to the millions of dollars donated to help victims of mass violence?
On January 8, 2011, a would-be assassin opened fire in a Safeway parking lot on the outskirts of Tucson just as Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was starting a …
Tucson: Reporter’s Notebook
My field notes from the January 8th shooting site and the youngest victim’s elementary school, one morning in March 2011. — Julia Hutton
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Tucson: You’ve Got Mail
On January 8, 2011 in Tucson, Arizona, a botched assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords left 6 people dead and 13 injured. The killer, a you …