37 Publications:


Bethel, Kathleen Withey. “We must find ways to fix the nation, not break it,” Special to the Arizona Daily Star, September 23, 2025.

https://tucson.com/opinion/column/article_9e6f8d8a-0a18-4db9-baaa-8eff50c5c962.html

Bethel, Kathleen Withey. “Experiencing Congressional Whiplash,” Special to the Arizona Daily Star,  Lead story, March 23, 2025, Page A14. https://arizonadailystar-az.newsmemory.com/?publink=062596fe5_134f8f7


Bethel, Kathleen A. “Sister Suffragettes’ Secret Weapon? Successful Men” Special to the Arizona Daily Star, Lead story, November 9, 2024. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-sister-suffragettes/169142313/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “We must be ready for the aftermath,” Special to the Arizona Daily Star, October 31, 2024, Lead story, Page A8. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-the-aftermath/169142216/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “The women in the box are the perfect gift.” Special to the Arizona Daily Star, Lead story, August 28, 2023, updated October 1, 2024.

https://tucson.com/opinion/column/local-opinion-the-women-in-the-box-are-the-perfect-gift/article_23a50ce6-15ee-11ee-a168-935ae35ecbb1.html

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Old Age” in Oberon Poetry Magazine, 2024.

Bethel, Kathleen A. “It’s a Barbie world and we won’t go back.” Lead story, Special to the Arizona Daily Star,  Tucson Opinion, July 26, 2023. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-barbie-world/169143323/

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Time to take back the American flag,” Arizona Daily Star, Lead story, July 5, 2023, Page A10. https://www.newspapers.com/image/980040861/?match=1&terms=Kathleen%20Bethel


Bethel, Kathleen A. “An ideal day to find your Irish roots,” Arizona Daily Star, March 17, 2023, Page A10. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-irish-roots/169143447/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “No more new year’s resolutions,” Arizona Daily Star, January 17, 2023 Page A6.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star/169143081/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Teachers deserve awards for valor,”  Arizona Daily Star, April 2, 2023, Page A14. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-teacher-awards-for-va/169143209/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “This brave old lady ready to take on the legislators,” Lead story, Special to the Arizona Daily Star, June 29, 2022, Page A6. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-brave-old-lady-takes/169143031/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Therapy is wonderful, even if you don’t need it.” Arizona Daily Star, Page A4, Lead story, April 13, 2022.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star/169142907/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Make a wish,”  Arizona Daily Star, December 19, 2021, Page A6.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-make-a-wish/169142850/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Lessons from COVID-19,” Special to the Arizona Daily Star, April 17, 2021, Page A6. Lead story. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star/169142697/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “A donation can be a defiant end to a hard year.”  Lead story, Special to the Arizona Daily Star, December 30, 2020. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-2020-article-about-do/104609398/


Bethel, Kathleen A. “Call me doctor, I earned it,” Special to the Arizona Daily Star, December 16, 2020, Lead story, Page A6. 

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104609712/2020-call-me-doctor-article-by-kathleen/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Keep your kids home, they will turn out fine,” Lead story, Special to the Arizona Daily Star,  July 21, 2020, Page A4. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104610235/2020-keep-your-kids-home-article-by/?xid=637


Bethel, Kathleen A. “Envisioning a remade America focused on education, other rights,” Arizona Daily Star, June 16, 2020, Page A4-5. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-part-one-envisioning/169143556/?xid=637, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104611763/2020-page-2-ideal-america-article-by/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Tips on parenting when the whole family is stuck at home.” Lead story, Special to the Arizona Daily Star, May 20, 2020. https://www.newspapers.com/image/665216866/?match=1&terms=Kathleen%20Bethel

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Science, Book Fairs make for an exciting weekend.” Special to the Arizona Daily Star, March 02, 2020, Lead story, Page A4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-2020-article-on-event/104609223/

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Quality Preschools matter for kids and their entire communities,” Arizona Daily Star,  October 1, 2019, Page A4. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104610528/2019-preschool-article-by-kathleen/?xid=637


Bethel, Kathleen A. “Little green men, a cheese moon, and looking back on our planet,” Special to the Arizona Daily Star, June 05, 2019, Page A6.  https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-little-green-men/169856468/

Bethel, Kathleen A. “There are a million reasons to give to Tucson’s nonprofits.” Lead story, Special to the Arizona Daily Star, April 2, 2019. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star/169144057/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. SARSEF helps kids make a better world.” Special to the Arizona Daily Star, Lead story, March 5, 2019. https://tucson.com/opinion/local/kathleen-bethel-sarsef-helps-kids-to-make-a-better-world/article_0b2da722-5f39-5e11-9737-beb8c80cef11.html

Bethel, Kathleen A. “The future is bright and so are our students,”  Arizona Daily Star,  April 9, 2019, Page A10.  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104608707/2019-future-is-bright-article/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Thinking critically is a critical skill for Trump, kids.” Lead story, Special to the Arizona Daily Star, Page A9, October 28, 2018. https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-2018-article-by-kathl/104609575/

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Another Voice: The President could take a cue from young learners”, Buffalo News, October 16, 2018.

https://buffalonews.com/opinion/article_63580409-995c-5267-92bc-f971cb15e92a.html

Bethel, Kathleen A. “To improve our kids’ thinking, we should ask better questions,” Special to the Arizona Daily Star, August 02, 2017, Page A08. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104608522/2017-ask-better-questions-article/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Science, like responsible journalism, can filter out the lies,” Arizona Daily Star,  March 1, 2017, Page A7. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104610302/2017-article-about-responsible/?xid=637


Bethel, Kathleen A. “It’s science fair season in Southern Arizona,” Arizona Daily Star, March 11, 2015, Page A11.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104609148/2015-science-fair-season-article-by/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Great things happen when community, curious kids join forces,” Arizona Daily Star, August 24, 2014, Page A07. https://www.newspapers.com/image/213606156/?match=1&clipping_id=new

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Science, engineering a plus for young minds,” Special to the Arizona Daily Star, August 29, 2007, Page A17. https://www.newspapers.com/image/213734742/?match=1&clipping_id=new


Bethel, Kathleen A. “Hungry school children due food, not judgment” Arizona Daily Star, January 10, 2007, Page A1.


Bethel, Kathleen A. “Segregation is coming to our schools next year,” Arizona Daily Star, January 22, 2008, Page A07.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/213690121/?match=1&terms=Kathleen%20Bethel

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Tucson’s Best Schools,” Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Voices, April 15, 2001, Page A14. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104613666/2001-test-scores/?xid=637

Bethel, Kathleen A. “Parents: Stay involved through high school.” Tucson Citizen, August 9, 2004, Page A2. https://www.newspapers.com/image/580203671/?clipping_id=104609941&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjU4MDIwMzY3MSwiaWF0IjoxNzQ0MTE5ODc0LCJleHAiOjE3NDQyMDYyNzR9.h9uwk3b5SZzcf5nmIgIavUCtO05Hdb0zM36cMdL2Gpo

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Gardner, Jeff. “SARSEF CEO Kathleen Bethel Retires.” Tucson Public Media, September 27, 2022, July 2, 2019.

https://www.tucsonlocalmedia.com/news/sarsef-ceo-kathleen-bethel-retires/article_55e2464a-9cdc-11e9-bc6f-6765f0dc6d4f.html


Bolding, Betsy. “SARSEF CEO Retires: Looking at Kathleen Bethel’s Impact by the numbers” Arizona Daily Star, June 25, 2019.