An event organizer had no idea it was being offensive, or creating a controversy, when it advertised a performance by a Texas touring troupe called Extreme Midget Wrestling as part of the upcoming Rockin’ Taco Street Fest in downtown Chandler.
The Arizona Department of Transportation is touting another distinctive feature of the South Mountain Freeway.
Moved by the plight of Texans hammered by Hurricane Harvey, some of Ahwatukee’s youngest residents reached out to touch the victims last week.
The only Ahwatukee member of the Tempe Union High School District governing board failed to stop his colleagues from approving 3-2 a request by Honeywell International Inc. for a real estate and personal property tax break that will cost the district about $112,000 over the next five years.
Bart Walker’s first team sale of his new kind of saddle shoe hit a special place in his art.
A Tempe company was one of four firms named last week to build the first prototypes of President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico, Customs and Border Patrol officials announced.
A new restaurant coming to Ahwatukee next month is going on a hiring binge – looking for what the company calls “snoozers.”
Bart Walker’s first team sale of his new kind of saddle shoe hit a special place in his art.
A Tempe company was one of four firms named last week to build the first prototypes of President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico, Customs and Border Patrol officials announced.
A new restaurant coming to Ahwatukee next month is going on a hiring binge – looking for wha…
Retirement complexes aren’t anything new, but Tim Hutchinson has a description for the lates…
In a world of caretakers, guardians and probate lawyers, Don Scher sees a near void.
Colorado-based Dispatch Health has brought its mobile urgent care platform to Tempe with plans to expand service to the rest of the East Valley later this year.
Zzeeks Pizza has become the second business to engage an Ahwatukee couple’s idea of using gl…
Climbing summer temperatures can make it both unpleasant and dangerous for owners to exercise their dogs outside, but a new company, RunBuddy Mobile, has created a convenient solution.
As Arizona’s fashion industry continues to take root, a business at Tempe’s fashion incubato…
Some represent happy hearts and others came from broken ones. Still others were brought in d…
One year ago, Clate Mask, co-founder and CEO of Infusionsoft, delivered a powerful keynote message at the East Valley Partnership Economic Forum.
The first time someone ever mailed me a swastika was back in my New Jersey days, when I made a full-time living peddling opinions in newsprint. Some members of the Aryan Nation announced an upcoming rally to protest gay rights and, to honor the event, I explained that Neo-Nazism seemed to me like a disease begging to be cured at the business end of a Louisville Slugger.
I have been in a blue funk since the Charlottesville uprising. I have been in this kind of funk too many times now because if in fact Black Lives Matter, how do we explain and morally and spiritually reconcile the deaths of Tamir Rice holding a toy gun (2014), of Jordan Davis playing music t…
It was a massive rowhouse fire on a tight street in Trenton, New Jersey, a block of older houses connected by a common attic and burning like kindling, that taught me a cardinal rule of journalism. This was 23 years ago, so some nuances have faded, but I remember word-for-word the question from our newspaper’s hard-ass publisher.
The neurosurgeon speaking about the glioblastoma assailing Sen. John McCain described this form of brain tumor using terms like “aggressive” and “relentless,” a warrior force that can be slowed down, stymied for the time being, but never defeated.
Many Ahwatukee residents now believe that not only is the South Mountain Freeway a “done deal” but also that the lawsuit contesting it is over.
Two tales teeming with cruelty happened side by side last week, as if to present an object lesson in human beings’ nearly endless capacity to act without thinking. The second story, the more tragic of the two, filled Wednesday’s newscasts.
If there is one topic that unites Ahwatukee Foothills, it's education – our great schools and how to support them.
When I was a young man growing up in Ahwatukee, I made the typical mistakes young people do.
It’s tough this time of year to get one’s head around an election.
The tough competition doesn’t stop with last weekend’s defeat of Chandler High as Mountain Pointe High will see where it stands against the Arizona’s top football talent in the coming weeks. Read more
Before Desert Vista High School’s road tilt with Basha High last Friday, Thunder quarterback Derek Kline wasn’t feeling like himself. the victim of a flu bug that’s been making its way around the team. Read more
From the start, you could tell it weighed heavy on their minds. Read more
Desert Vista pummeled Skyline Friday night by a score of 44-13, but the Thunder didn’t leave the field without a few bumps and bruises of their own. The game was physical from the outset, and some Desert Vista coaches took an exception to it. Read more
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