Peter O'Dowd

During the GOP Primaries, likely nominee Mitt Romney preached an immigration policy of “self-deportation”. It just so happens that in the wake of the passage of SB 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law, many of that state’s undocumented immigrants are practicing self-deportation. But they’re not necessarily going back to Mexico. Instead, many are crossing the border […]

We have both the Arizona and Michigan primaries tomorrow. And while much of the debate is over Romney and Michigan, we’ll leave that to the pundits for the time being and focus on Arizona. Often our reporting from that part of the country has been informed by Peter O’Dowd, news director from KJZZ in Arizona. […]

Mitt Romney has had a hard time garnering support among social conservatives. But since he’s a minister in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, you’d think that unanimous support among Mormons would be a given.  That’s not the case in Arizona, where strict adherence to Mormon teachings have led some to adopt libertarian […]

The American Southwest has seen their once thriving housing and construction industries decimated by the recession. Economists have suggested that the region may never fully rebound from the historic housing crisis it faced.  Fronteras, a multimedia collaboration focusing on the Southwestern border between the United States and Mexico, led by KJZZ  in Phoenix and KPBS  in San Diego, […]