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News outlets for years have struggled to figure out how to monetize their content online. We’ll hear about the pros and cons of paywalls. Plus, we’ll look at the winners and losers from this year's Super Bowl commercials. That and more on The Show.
In this time of COVID-19 fatigue, many look forward to the virus becoming endemic, as though endemicity meant crossing a finish line. Really, it might mark the start of a new marathon — albeit one with more rest stops.
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Some state lawmakers are pushing an expansion of the state’s school voucher program, while public schools could face more than a billion dollars in cuts. Our Friday NewsCap analyzes those and the rest of the week’s top stories. Plus, U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on federal voting rights legislation. That and more on The Show.
Arizona’s senior U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has faced dramatic criticism in recent months, especially because of her unwillingness to support changing filibuster rules in the Senate. That stance, at least in part, kept new voting rights legislation from moving forward.
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Rents continue to rise across Arizona, pricing residents out of their homes and leading to evictions. We’ll hear why all that led one constable to walk away from her job. Plus, we take a walk down one Valley street that's stayed quaint even as the city has grown up around it. That and more on The Show.
Ash Avenue in downtown Tempe has long been a cross-section of Valley life. With houses that date back to the early 1900s, the neighborhood is bordered by railroad tracks on one side and ASU’s ever-growing campus on the other.
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A new community bank is opening in Arizona for the first time in more than a decade. We’ll hear why advocates say these kinds of institutions are key to the state’s economy. Plus, the owner of the last Japanese-owned flower shop on a Phoenix road that used to have several of them. That and more on The Show.
In the years following World War II, you could drive along Baseline Road in south Phoenix and see every color of the rainbow — in flowers. And you could smell their sweet scent for miles. Now, only one flower shop remains.
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→ Explore more Arizona history stories
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Lots of people are experiencing COVID-19 fatigue and thinking about making different decisions about what they will and will not do. We’ll explores what goes into our thinking about that. Plus, meet an Arizona maker who yarn by hand and spreads the slow-fashion gospel of knitting. That and more on The Show.
It’s not uncommon to hear complaints about fast fashion and its wastefulness. But Traveling Yarn co-owner Sarah Wharton is about slow fashion.
