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Town: Ajo

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View from a hill outside Ajo: The great white wall in the distance is a man-made mountain of mining waste; the red-tiled roofs on the left are the historic Curley School, center of current redevelopment activities. Saguaro and organ-pipe cacti throughout
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  • Economic Development

Ajo, Arizona: A Small Town Pushed to the Brink, and Coming Back

  • Deborah Fallows
  • March 30, 2015
What does a town do when most of its people lose their jobs nearly overnight? For the people of this small town, the surprising answer places heavy emphasis on the arts.
We decided not to challenge the Warthogs for airspace above this road in Arizona. (Airman 1st Class Sivan Veazie/ U.S. Air Force)
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  • Aviation

A Calculated Risk I Decided Not to Take

  • James Fallows
  • February 11, 2015
"Here we were doing what was a 'strafing run' down the highway and talking to Snake Eye and looking for the craters at the south end of the corridor." Why we made this last leg of the journey by car.

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