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Day cares and preschools are starting to reopen across Arizona as many parents head back to work and need someone to take care of their kids. But how do you social distance with little kids? How do you keep toddlers from touching their faces?
May 19, 2020
The Scottsdale City Council is set to consider the city’s tentative budget for the upcoming fiscal year May 19, and members are likely looking at cuts of at least $25 million due to lost revenue because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 19, 2020
Activists from California were hoping to help put Arizona comfortably in the blue camp by coming here to knock on doors and get up close and personal with voters. The COVID-19 pandemic has put a stop to that, but remote efforts are still being attempted.
May 19, 2020
The state House is back to holding committee hearings, but hopes to adjourn by May 21. Lawmakers returned to the Capitol on May 18 after their colleagues in the Senate voted to call it quits on May 8. So what is the House hoping to accomplish now?
May 19, 2020
WNBA star Diana Taurasi's recent Instagram comments have drawn attention to the need for more women to own professional sports teams. There are only a handful at this point — with most of those in the NFL.
May 19, 2020
You won’t just be casting votes for president and state officials in this general election. You’ll also be asked to decide on a variety of citizen initiatives.
May 19, 2020
Another 31,901 Arizonans applied for first-time unemployment benefits last week, a slight increase over figures from the prior week. The new figure brings the number of Arizonans who have applied for unemployment during the COVID-19 outbreak to nearly 577,000.
May 19, 2020
Arizona Republican lawmakers are moving to make it harder for someone who contracts COVID-19 to sue the business where they believe they were infected or a company that made a device that did not provide the promised protection from the virus.
May 19, 2020
Arizonans who violate the current or future gubernatorial executive orders may no longer face the possibility of getting locked up.
May 19, 2020
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testify in front of a Senate committee Tuesday — congressional appearances required by a recently enacted coronavirus relief law
May 19, 2020
Arizona completed its statewide coronavirus testing blitz last weekend, but individuals continue to seek out their own tests. There are a variety of types of tests being conducted and each has pluses and minuses.
→ Arizona Testing Still Lags Behind Other States
→ Arizona Testing Still Lags Behind Other States
May 19, 2020
Violence in general has been rising in Sonora, the Mexican state to Arizona's south. The director of a southern Sonora news site was killed in an armed attack over the weekend.
May 18, 2020
The Phoenix City Council could vote on a proposed budget Tuesday, and activists are demanding that elected officals find a way to get relief money for undocumented people during the coronavirus pandemic.
May 18, 2020
In a narrow victory for Democrats, the U.S. House on Friday passed an additional $3 trillion coronavirus response package called the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, or the HEROES Act, that was introduced earlier in the week.
May 18, 2020
COVID-19 is spreading in Arizona prisons. As of May 18, more than 170 inmates have tested positive and six have died. Sixty-four correctional officers have tested positive. Last week, KJZZ discovered that food workers contracted by the state have tested positive as well.
May 18, 2020
As the state of Arizona and the Grand Canyon reopen, the Navajo Nation clamps down. The tribe emerged Monday from the strictest weekend curfew yet.
May 18, 2020
There’s a lot of talk right now that the coronavirus pandemic could spell the end of the kind of push for urbanization and centralization we’ve seen in recent years in cities across the country — including Phoenix. There is also a contingent of urbanists who argue this idea is anything but true. The Show spoke with urbanist Richard Florida about it.
May 18, 2020
The proposed budget that starts July 1 represents no cuts to services and $1 million more in spending than the current fiscal year.
May 18, 2020
Terrorist groups — both domestic and international — are looking at the current pandemic as a new opportunity to expand uncertainty and unrest.
May 18, 2020
The week of May 17 marks 130 years since The Arizona Republican started printing. The Show spoke with Phil Boas, editorial page editor of The Arizona Republic, about the evolution of the paper and the region it serves.
May 18, 2020
