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Media landscape challenges the way newspapers deliver information
For more than 100 years, our state has been an attractive place for entrepreneurs and investment. From miners to bankers, it seems our business climate has been as attractive as our actual climate. But few businesses have been around longer than newspapers. In fact, nearly half of the state’s 12 oldest businesses are local newspapers.
AZ senators reluctant to put Shooter on trial
Democratic Arizona senators, even those once interested in pushing for an ethics hearing into the actions of Sen. Don Shooter at a Yuma charter school earlier this year, now say it’d be a waste of time holding hearings on an issue that police and prosecutors have already dealt with in full.
Phoenix to begin national search for city manager
Phoenix leaders are beginning a national search to find a replacement for outgoing City Manager David Cavazos.
Path of Begay
New senator has lived in many homes far from his district
By all accounts, new state Sen. Carlyle Begay is highly qualified for public office.
He has impressed lawmakers, county and city officials and even the Governor’s Office with his credentials as a student of public health. And he boasts extensive work with American Indian communities as the vice president of [...]
$2.1M for Arizona insurance enrollment helpers
Four Arizona groups that work to promote health care are being awarded more than $2.1 million to help people buy health insurance in new federally run marketplaces that are set to open in October.
Study: Vast majority of immigrants want to become citizens, few do
More than 93 percent of Hispanic immigrants who are in this country illegally say they want to apply for citizenship, but fewer than half of whose who can apply do so, according to research by the Pew Hispanic Center.
Arizona earns a B on report card for financial literacy requirements
Arizona got a B on a recent national report card that graded states for their efforts to improve financial literacy in high schools.
Brewer to meet Obama at airport, ask for fire aid
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will ask President Barack Obama about the status of her disaster declaration request for the Yarnell Hill fire when the two meet at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix Tuesday.
Obama to discuss homeownership Tuesday in Phoenix
President Barack Obama has chosen Arizona for the next stop on his middle-class speech tour.
Phoenix city manager asked to end pension spiking
Although the city manager is being asked to end a policy that allows pension "spiking" by Phoenix police officers and firefighters, no changes are imminent because the city must honor its labor-contract obligations until next fiscal year.
Immigrants bring fight to White House, demand end to deportations
Katherine Figueroa was 9 and watching television reports of a workplace raid in Phoenix when she saw video of her parents being hauled away by sheriff’s deputies.
Report: Insurers charge more to drivers with less education, blue-collar jobs
A Phoenix driver with only a high school diploma could be charged as much as 12 percent more in auto insurance premiums than a plant supervisor with a college degree, according to a report released Monday.
