Discussion

Christmas has come fast, and many of you will be traveling or having family come to you for the holidays. How many will be spending the holidays here in the desert? And how many elsewhere? Let us know below! Where will you be spending the holidays?

Re: Work being done by Intermountain Slurry Seal, Inc. on Highway 72 Project # A(275)A/H802901P The amount of semis running that road has not been lessened during this work, and they are running at typical speed. Coming to work this morning, I got a stone chip on my windshield, many paint chips on my jeep, and a headlamp shattered. No …

Hello. I used to come to this site multiple times a day, as it seemed like a great place to come for things that were happening in Parker. Now it seems like the only thing you are covering are Quartzsite. What happen to covering other things before the Pioneer did? – Anonymous Take a look at the Pioneer this past …

Current affairs in Quartzsite have been big news in recent months, and have brought with them charges of corruption, troublemaking and nepotism. On that last charge, a Parker Live reader comments: “We live in the land of political nepotism. If an employee is accused of theft, the police are all too zealous to show up and slap on the cuffs, …

Readers, Parker Live has a very good reputation for promoting free speech in our area. Not only do we try to update the site as often as we can with news pertaining to Parker and La Paz County; we also allow one of the most open comments systems on sites such as this (most news website contributions from readers are …

La Paz County Sheriff Press Release Recently I have received several phone calls regarding my stance on the political issues in the Town of Quartzsite. People are wondering what I am going to do to “fix” the problems down there. They are also asking if the Sheriff’s Office is supporting one side over the other. In an effort to help …

Happy Friday! I’ve recently heard from some of you that the process of registering on Parker Live (which is required once in order to leave comments on the site) is more difficult than it should be. I hear you. The reason registration is needed at all, and the reason it isn’t simple, is largely because of the amount of SPAM …

An email from a reader says: Did you know that Google Earth’s picture of Parker was taken on Tube Float day and shows all the tubers coming down the river? He’s right. Check out the satellite image below. Tubers tend to collect on the Arizona side of the river as can be observed in the image. What a happy coincidence! …

Jim Willett, owner of Yakima Company, issued this letter to Parker Live: After two years of meaningless reassurances by Dan Field and the Supervisors we now know what they meant when they said that the Yakima problem was going to turn out “just fine.” Fine for them, everyone else gets tossed under the bus. Let`s check the facts. A month …

A ‘Cronkite News’ report on the building destroyed by fire last week in Parker, originally part of the Poston Internment Camp, can be seen HERE. We think they get most of their facts right, with some exceptions. (The report is put together by students of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.)