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Five Native American artists from across the country have spent the past week at ASU School of Art in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts on a printmaking project with graduate students. Thursday night they debut the results of their work.
Sept. 20, 2013
Some national evangelical leaders have announced a new effort to persuade conservative Christians and lawmakers they should support federal immigration reform.The effort is called “I Was a Stranger.” The campaign asks churches to spend 40 days studying scripture related to immigration.
Sept. 20, 2013
The Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center is the latest oncology hospital in the Valley to announce it’s expanding. As KJZZ’s Nick Blumberg reports, the announcement comes a little more than a year after the center first opened.
Sept. 20, 2013
The Phoenix Suns are off to their worst start in twenty-five years and fired Head Coach Alvin Gentry last week. The Arizona Republic's Bob Young talks about the team's problems and how long it will take to find solutions.
Sept. 20, 2013
Benedictine
University is hiring eight new faculty
members for its satellite campus in Mesa. Judy Baker answers questions for prospective students at Benedictine University's branch campus in Mesa. (File photo by Peter O'Dowd - KJZZ)Arizona’s
first Catholic university will begin classes this fall.
Sept. 20, 2013
What if your office was the one attacked by somebody with a gun? Would you know what to do? Are security measures in place in your workplace? Security Consultant Dwayne Tatalovich says industry standards recommend companies perform safety drills, but few actually conduct them.
Sept. 20, 2013
Arizona will be part of a global event taking place in 189 countries on Valentine's Day. It's an effort to end violence against women everywhere. It's the idea of author/activist Eve Ensler, who decided serious attention needed to be brought to the issue.
Sept. 20, 2013
Governor Jan Brewer is expected Monday morning to
release her proposal for simplifying the state sales tax. Last May, she created
a task force to look into the issue, saying Arizona has one of the most complex
systems in the country.
Sept. 20, 2013
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee today that immigration reform can't only focus on border security. Deporting the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country wouldn't just be impractical, she said, but runs contrary to American values.
Sept. 20, 2013
The Arizona Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on whether
to give voters a chance to re-think a decision they made less than three years
ago. From Phoenix, KJZZ’s Mark Brodie reports.
MARK BRODIE: The proposal would ask voters to move the deadline for
filing initiative petition signatures from four months before an election, to
six months prior.
Sept. 20, 2013
As new construction slowly comes back to Phoenix, its shaking up the Valley's labor needs. Contractors are scrambling to recruit workers, and that's creating a ripple effect in other sectors. KJZZ's Jude Joffe-Block reports.
Sept. 20, 2013
The
Arizona House has taken the first steps toward restricting the use of isolation
rooms, in public schools. A bill by
Representative Kelly Townsend, to require a parent's permission before putting
a child in isolation, has won preliminary approval in the House.
Sept. 20, 2013
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has lowered the age of missionaries. That has led Utah's legislature to propose a bill to modify how many out-of-state students are eligible to go to a Utah college or university.
Sept. 20, 2013
Visitors to Las
Vegas this weekend may be taking a gamble outside the
casinos. The drivers for one of the largest cab companies in Vegas have
authorized a strike at midnight Sunday. If it happens more than 1,700 cabbies
could be parking their cars.
Sept. 20, 2013
The Food Research and Action Center
reports that 21 percent of Arizonans say they lacked money to buy food at least once
last year. That ranks Arizona 14th
in the United States.
FRAC President Jim Weill says the benefit levels of the SNAP, or food
stamp program, aren’t high enough to enough to enable people to purchase enough
food.
Sept. 20, 2013
The lure of retiring in Central America has brought Americans in droves
to tropical countries like Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Cheap living. Good
food. Vibrant culture. Some Baby Boomers call it Pura Vida -- the Pure Life.
Sept. 20, 2013
New numbers from ASU show an almost unheard of jump in
Phoenix-area home prices. KJZZ’s Mark Brodie reports.
MARK BRODIE: Mike Orr, with ASU’s WP Carey School of Business, says an
increase of more than 35 percent has only happened once before, and that was
during a bubble.
Sept. 20, 2013
Agriculture officials are trying to prevent
an insect-borne disease from wiping out citrus in western Arizona.
Adult Asian Citrus Psyllid (Photo by David Hall/USDA ARS)
The Asian Citrus Psyllid is only about as
big as the tip of a ballpoint pen, but it can do a lot of damage.
Sept. 20, 2013
Funding for non-profits arts organization has been difficult to come by, but Ben Cameron – inaugural Thought Leader in Residence for the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust — argues that arts and culture must react to changing demographics.
Sept. 20, 2013
