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For many, graduation offers a good excuse to move on, leave town, fly this coop. But for Hector Chong, who graduated last week from Creighton University School of Medicine in Phoenix, it’s a reason to stay and help people in his community.
May 19, 2023
"Algorithm of a Culture" is a book of poetry — but we can’t tell you where you can buy it. That’s because author Márquez Price only made 100 copies of the book and sold each of them for $100.
May 19, 2023
A deal has been approved for the University of Idaho to purchase the University of Phoenix — a for-profit university that once had an enrollment of nearly 500,000 students.
May 19, 2023
Construction zones have been popping up overnight on parts of Interstate 10. Earlier this week, a construction worker was killed after a semi truck crashed into the boom lift he was operating near the Broadway curve.
May 19, 2023
A small community west of Phoenix experienced a big loss this week. On Tuesday night, flames engulfed one of Tonopah’s only community gathering places. Firefighters received the call that the Tin Top Bar and Grill was on fire at around midnight.
May 19, 2023
Doug Cole of HighGround and former state House Minority Leader Reginald Bolding joined The Show to talk about Kari Lake having a few more days in court, Tempe voters defeating a plan for a new Coyotes arena and more.
May 19, 2023
Brittney Griner's life and career path have taken a sharp turn over the past 18 months following a nearly 10-month detainment in Russia on drug-related charges that ended with a prisoner swap in December.
May 19, 2023
On a windy day in late April, with dust blowing across an arena on the San Carlos Reservation east of Globe, eight young men, all members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, are gathered around several horses and a trailer workshop.
May 19, 2023
COVID-19 vaccines and boosters still reduce the likelihood of serious illness and hospitalization. But they’re less effective at protecting against symptomatic COVID-19 — and at fighting the immune-evasive strains currently circulating. Now, there’s new guidance from the WHO.
May 18, 2023
The National Insurance Crime Bureau says more than 64,000 catalytic converters were reported stolen to insurance companies in 2022, that’s almost 50,000 more than in 2020.
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May 18, 2023
Arizona’s Kris Mayes is among dozens of attorneys general urging federal lawmakers to have the DEA track an animal tranquilizer found with fentanyl in deadly drug cocktails.
May 18, 2023
A new report from Syracuse University research group Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, shows a significant rise in a type of lawsuit generally filed by immigrants whose applications for things like visas and work permits on stuck in long backlogs at USCIS.
May 18, 2023
The city of Scottsdale wants Gov. Katie Hobbs to veto a bill that would require the city to once again provide water to the nearby community of Rio Verde Foothills.
May 18, 2023
The U.S. government is greenlighting a proposed multibillion-dollar transmission line that would send primarily wind-generated electricity from the rural plains of New Mexico to big cities in the West.
May 18, 2023
The Phoenix metro area is one of six regions nationwide that’s been tapped to participate in a new White House program to address homelessness.
May 18, 2023
The city of Phoenix had the second highest number of new residents of any city in the country.
May 18, 2023
The Show spoke about this with Jere Johnston, youth services librarian for the Red Mountain Library in Mesa, about what she’s seeing in terms of high school students thinking about what they’re going to do after graduation — and the choices they’re making.
May 18, 2023
As the Arizona Legislature adjourns for another break, one item left on the docket is Prop. 400 — a half-cent sales tax in Maricopa County that funds transportation projects.
May 18, 2023
Emma Zimmerman was working on getting a doctoral degree at McGill University in 2009 when her dad, Jeff, had a crazy idea: to reopen Tempe’s historic Hayden Flour Mills. It started as something of a hobby, but, soon enough, it turned into much more.
May 18, 2023
There's an ongoing conversation about some of the morals and ethics of liver transplants — specifically when it comes to liver damage caused by alcoholism. The Show talked through this with Dr. David Beyda, chair of the Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanism at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix.
May 18, 2023
