Arizona Republic Lays Off 30 to 40, Announces Closure of Chandler Offset...
"Yes?" No. About 40 people have been laid off at the Arizona Republic, which also announced plans to close a Chandler press that prints USA Today and various inserts. The local pink slips come as part...
View ArticleHealthcare Cuts for Arizona's Poor Upheld by Judge
Hundreds of thousands of impoverished Arizonans with health problems apparently will have to tough it out following a court ruling today that upholds healthcare cuts.Maricopa County Superior Court...
View ArticleArizona Immigration Laws (and Joe Arpaio) Called Out by Cato Institute for...
The Cato Institute -- a libertarian think-tank -- needed just seven words to sum up its report today on how Arizona's immigration laws are affecting business, and put those words right at the front of...
View ArticleAmazon Will Start Collecting Arizona Sales Tax in February
Online retailer Amazon will no longer be Arizona's duty-free store.Amazon noted in its latest FEC filing that it's going to start collecting Arizona sales tax on purchases in the state, which currently...
View ArticleArizonans Break the State's All-Time Record for Money Spent on Lottery Tickets
Nothing reeks of desperation like Arizona residents breaking the state record for buying lottery tickets.Arizonans forked over $692.9 million for their 1-in-a-zillion chance at getting rich in fiscal...
View ArticleArizona's Going to Have the Fastest Job Growth in the Nation, According to...
Remember this in the case that we're all living in shanty towns in five years -- Forbes has some remarkably good predictions for Arizona's economy.Forbes projects that Arizona will have faster job...
View ArticleYoung People Actually More Responsible with Credit Cards, According to ASU...
You know what's worse than a 19-year-old with a credit card? A 40-year-old with a credit card.Despite the common belief that young people are the absolute worst when it comes to credit card use, a...
View ArticleArizonans' Financial Situations Are Generally Horrible, Study Finds
A study of financial data shows Arizonans generally are not in good financial shape, compared to the rest of the country.For example, about 32 percent of Arizonans, the fourth-hightest rate in the...
View ArticleASU Real Estate Report: Phoenix-Area Home Prices May Not Go Up This Year
The "rebound" of home prices in the Phoenix area might be over, according to the monthly real estate report from Arizona State University's Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice.According to the...
View ArticleASU Professors: Arizona Still Two Years Away From Full Economic Recovery
It's 2014 and some professors at Arizona State University say the state is still two years away from recovering from the economic crisis.Professors from ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business held their...
View ArticleMost Arizonans on Welfare Have Jobs
The majority of federal and state dollars spent on Arizona anti-poverty programs go -- not to the unemployed -- but to college professors, home-healthcare nurses, child-care specialists, and other...
View ArticleArizona Workers "Fight for $15"
Inside the McDonald's at 1205 South Rural Road in Tempe, dinner guests sipped on soft drinks, munched on burgers, and surfed Facebook on their laptops. Outside, 600 protesters lapped up against the...
View ArticleWill Kicking 1,600 Off Welfare Inspire Arizona's Poor to Get Jobs?
Arizona legislators are framing their recent determination to impose a 12-month lifetime cap on welfare benefits and cut off assistance to some 1,600 families as a way to motivate the poor to take care...
View ArticleAnimas River Spill Renews 1872 Mining Law Debate and Fears About Uranium Mining
As more than 3 million gallons of heavy metal-laden sludge from a spill at the Gold King Mine in Colorado has worked its way down the A nimas River and toward the San Juan River and Lake Powell, many...
View ArticleTempe-Based Vemma Scammed ASU Students with Pyramid Scheme, FTC Says
Tempe-based multi-level marketing company Vemma Nutrition duped impressionable college-student sales people out of millions of dollars by paying them little or nothing, according to a Federal Trade...
View ArticleScottsdale Couple Are Pioneers in Tiny-Home Movement in Arizona
Young, environmentally conscious Phoenix-area residents are facing obstacles in attempting to downsize into incredibly small homes. Chris and Ashley Clemmons are among the Arizona pioneers in the...
View ArticleStruggling Phoenix Workers Demand $15 Minimum Wage
Eviela Carrera came to the United States, like many immigrants do, to give her four children a better life. But, making just $8.30 an hour assembling chicken sandwiches and cleaning the broiler at a...
View ArticleArizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva Announces Bill Banning Uranium Mining Near...
U.S., Representative Raúl Grijalva will announce a bill this afternoon designed to permanently ban uranium mining in the Grand Canyon watershed. The Tucson congressman's measure, officially called the...
View ArticleNational People's Climate Movement Demonstrations Planned in Phoenix Today
Mere hours after U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told the American public that the greatest danger to national security is climate change, a large crowd is expected to descend on the Arizona capital...
View ArticleArizona Officially Sues EPA Over Clean Power Plan
Arizona is now one of 24 states officially suing the Environmental Protection Agency over President Obama’s flagship carbon-emissions-reduction initiative, the Clean Power Plan. Arizona Attorney...
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