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August 2017
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President Trump recently announced his support for a bill that would reduce legal immigration to the U.S. Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue who introduced the RAISE Act, which stands for Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy. While cutting the number of legal immigrants, the act would increase the percentage who are highly skilled.
Aug. 17, 2017
Arizona education officials have come up with specific goals for students in the state. It’s part of the Arizona Progress Meter, which measures where students are, and determines where they need to go, in a series of metrics — including high school graduation rate, and success in eighth-grade math and third-grade reading.
Aug. 17, 2017
A new documentary Troubled Water investigated drinking water systems and pollution across the country. It was part of a project produced by students in the News21 program, which includes several universities, and is headquartered at ASU.
Aug. 17, 2017
The Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame is celebrating its newest class of inductees on Thursday, including a handful of the state’s most well-known artists.
Aug. 17, 2017
The Arizona Secretary of State's Office says workers there have finished counting signatures on the petitions turned in last week to refer the state's new school voucher law to the ballot.
Aug. 16, 2017
It seems like every few months we have to make a new password for something. And it always has to be really complicated — and you’re supposed to have different passwords for each online account. It gets crazy really fast. Those complicated passwords are going to be a thing of the past.
Aug. 16, 2017
Like fall in New York, there’s a season that it seems all Arizonans look forward to — the monsoon. But unlike the Big Apple, monsoon weather is unique to the Southwest — and you never quite know what it will bring. For a series exploring personal relationships to the monsoon, producer Paige Phelps talked to Jacob Moore, assistant vice president of tribal relations at ASU.
Aug. 16, 2017
If you’ve seen a car driving around town lately with what looks like a camera on top, it just might be a self-driving car. That’s because Google, Uber, Waymo and now Israeli company Mobileye are all using Arizona as testing grounds for the development of these autonomous vehicles.
Aug. 16, 2017
In 2013, it came to light that more than 6,000 reports of child abuse and neglect had been set aside — marked as “not investigated.” Today, the number of investigations are down over the last year, even as the number of calls coming into Arizona’s child-abuse hotline stays steady. That’s according to a new report from The Arizona Republic.
Aug. 16, 2017
Drive around many corners of the Valley looking for a restaurant serving delicious food, and you’ll find influences from all over the world. But how authentic are the dishes? Are the owners and chefs actually the people who’ve lived in the culture and with the recipes? Those are some of the issues the co-hosts of the Racist Sandwich podcast address on a regular basis.
Aug. 16, 2017
