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June 2016
Language Barrier's music is somewhat poppy, with tinges of sadness and thoughtful lyrics.
June 24, 2016
When you think of landscape art, what comes to mind? Maybe open meadows, calm ponds and forests? Well, that’s not the subject of Tony Winters’ exhibit, called “Desert City/River City.”
June 24, 2016
The Phoenix City Council this week voted to sell one of downtown’s most iconic buildings – the Jefferson Hotel, also known as the Barrister Building, on the southeast corner of Central and Jefferson.
June 24, 2016
Downtown Phoenix's progress has been highlighted in The New York Times.
June 24, 2016
New numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau show the country’s Hispanic population grew by more than a million people between July 1 of 2014 and the same date a year later – that’s a more than 2 percent increase.
June 24, 2016
It’s something we all like to forget about, but, every day, 130 million gallons of wastewater is sent from our sewer system to a treatment plant near 91st Avenue and Broadway Road. There, it’s broken down, treated, and almost entirely reused.
June 24, 2016
The Coyotes will soon have a Southwest neighbor in the NHL—as the league has announced an expansion franchise has been granted to Las Vegas.
June 24, 2016
The Arizona Board of Regents held a special meeting this week in Phoenix. On the docket was an in-depth discussion regarding concerns about leadership transitions at the University of Arizona Medical School Campus downtown.
June 24, 2016
A new case of measles was diagnosed Wednesday in Pinal County, bringing the total to 18 in an outbreak that began last month at a detention center in Eloy.
June 24, 2016
How many Arizonans use power and pay for it could soon change. The state’s largest power company has proposed shifting most households to a new kind of rate – one that no major utility in the country has ever required.
June 24, 2016