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Why the Phoenix council vote to name transit hub was controversial
Phoenix City Councilwoman Laura Pastor is upset over her colleagues’ moves to name a new downtown transit center after a former mayor and current congressman.
May 16, 2024
Senators, elections officials clash on early voting changes
Over the objections of local and state election officials, Republicans in the Arizona Senate Elections Committee advanced a plan to ask voters to make changes to the way elections are run in the state.
May 16, 2024
Body found at Grand Canyon believed to be missing Santa Fe man
The discovery of a body downstream from Lee's Ferry raises speculation that it could be Thomas Robison, who embarked on a Colorado River journey last month. Park officials are awaiting autopsy results for confirmation while stressing the importance of river safety measures.
May 16, 2024
AZ teens struggle with mental health at high rates, report says
Arizona youth between the ages of 12 and 17 are struggling with mental health at higher rates than their peers in other states, but many aren't getting the help they need. That’s according to a first-of-its-kind report on adolescent health in the state released Thursday.
May 16, 2024
Phoenix population growth is relatively stagnant, newly released census data shows
Maricopa County did have some of the largest gains in the number of new housing units built.
May 16, 2024
Hobbs says she wont take sides on judge retention following Arizona abortion ruling
Supreme Court Justices Clint Bolick and Kathryn King provided two of the four majority votes allowing for enforcement of the 1864 near-total abortion ban. They’re up for retention in the general election.
May 16, 2024
Mother of former UA student, charged in professors murder, testifies
Former University of Arizona grad student Murad Dervish is on trial for the 2022 on-campus shooting and murder of professor Thomas Meixner. Patricia Grace, Dervish’s mother, took the stand.
May 16, 2024
AZ residents are fighting the SunZia project. Heres why
Wyatt Myskow covers environmental news in the Western U.S. from Phoenix as the Roy W. Howard investigative fellow, and has been following this story. He joined The Show to talk more about the project and why some Arizona residents continue to try to challenge it.
May 16, 2024
The National Archives are looking for volunteers to decode old pension records
The Archives has also featured the pension records of African-American veterans of the Revolutionary War. With The Show to talk about this project is Suzanne Isaacs, community manager for the National Archives Catalog.
May 16, 2024
Tiny Desert Concert: Watch Pijama Piyama perform in Phoenix
Phoenix psychedelic cumbia band Pijama Piyama joins The Show for the latest installment of our Tiny Desert Concerts. Phoenix native and bandleader Jonathan Saillant talks more about the band's start during the COVID-19 lockdown.
May 16, 2024
Mexicos cases against gun manufacturers, dealers say violence is coming there from the U.S.
Ieva Jusionyte, an anthropologist and associate professor of international security and anthropology at Brown University, talks about guns flowing from the U.S. to Mexico in her newest book, "Exit Wounds."
May 16, 2024
Its getting harder to keep vulnerable people safe in the AZ heat
It might still officially be spring, but it’s certainly starting to feel like summer here in the Valley. Jessica Berg is the chief program officer at St. Vincent de Paul. The Show spoke with her more about her organization’s role in preventing heat deaths — and how much harder it’s gotten.
May 16, 2024
AZ Legislature sends bipartisan affordable housing bills to Hobbs
Older neighborhoods of single-family homes near the downtowns of large Arizona cities could see major makeovers into more dense developments of duplexes, triplexes and even fourplexes and townhomes under a zoning reform measure headed to Gov. Katie Hobbs’ desk.
May 16, 2024
Mesa Public Schools sees improvement in chronic absenteeism
Chronic absenteeism has been a major issue across K-12 schools in Arizona, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. But Mesa Public Schools is seeing improvement in that area.
May 16, 2024
Mesa now one of the highest paying districts in Arizona
Mesa Public Schools has approved pay increases for all of its 8,500 employees, effective July 1. The increase makes Mesa one of the highest paying school districts in the state.
May 16, 2024
Truck driver killed in incident at TSMC site in Phoenix
Cesar Anguiano-Guitron, 41, was taking waste material away from the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plant site in a tractor trailer Wednesday, police said.
May 16, 2024
6 Dems who want to take on U.S. Rep. David Schweikert in CD1 struggle to stand out in debate
The six Democrats vying for the chance to unseat Republican Congressman David Schweikert in Arizona’s Congressional District 1 struggled to differentiate themselves from one another at a debate in north Phoenix on Wednesday.
May 16, 2024
Here’s where light rail could be built in west Phoenix
Five years after rejecting a plan to extend light rail into west Phoenix, the city is changing direction.
May 16, 2024
Shes an Arizona lawmaker, and hes on Supreme Court. They split on near-total abortion ban
Shawnna Bolick’s vote to repeal the near-total ban her husband, Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick, helped reinstate underscores the increasingly chaotic philosophical and legal landscape surrounding abortion access in Arizona.
May 16, 2024
Negotiator says 7 states are close to a water sharing deal
Policymakers say they’re getting closer to an agreement between seven Western states on how to manage the Colorado River in the future. But details from those closed-door negotiations have been limited.
May 15, 2024

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