The Business of Sports: New era of media consumption pivotal for Arizona’s pro teams

Considering the Phoenix metro is home to established professional teams in multiple leagues, Valley residents have myriad options to engage with those teams, and more tech-based platforms are on the horizon.As the sports content marketplace continues to grow, the Arizona Diamondbacks, Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Mercury, Arizona Coyotes and Phoenix Raceway are trying to stay at…

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Arizona Contractor’s 30-Year-Old Business Begins with a Father’s Promise

Starting with a wheelbarrow and a shovel in Scottsdale, Arizona, Pete Jones learned concrete and construction through the “inspiration of desperation.” With a background in banking, he learned plenty about business operations, having turned around a company that makes fresh-squeezed orange juice from near bankruptcy. It was out of that success, a bout of unemployment and, above…

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Arizona Editoonist Steve Benson Retires

After almost 45 year years of editorial cartooning Steve Benson is retiring. Jim Small, Editor In Chief of The Arizona Mirror, announced Steve’s decision today: Since the 1980s, he’s been skewering Arizona leaders and politicos on a regular basis, in between reminding us exactly how amazing our state is and how we need to protect…

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Read full transcript of Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ 2024 State of the State address

PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs delivered her second State of the State speech in Phoenix on Monday. Here’s the transcript of Hobbs’ speech: Speaker Toma, President Petersen, members of the House and Senate, Attorney General Mayes, Secretary Fontes, Treasurer Yee, Superintendent Horne, State Mine Inspector Marsh, Corporation Commissioners, Chief Justice Brutinel and members of…

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Arizona proposes framework for converting wastewater into purified drinking water

Recently, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality released a proposed roadmap outlining plans to convert treated wastewater into purified drinking water.“Advanced water purification has the potential to provide a reliable source of purified water that can alleviate water scarcity issues faced in much of Arizona,” said Randall Matas, deputy director of the water quality division…

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Why a 100-year supply? How Arizona got its famous, yet arbitrarily numbered groundwater rule

Arizona’s 100-year water supply requirement came into sharp focus this year when Gov. Katie Hobbs announced news of a potential shortfall.It came up again recently when state Senate President Warren Petersen publicly discussed why the requirement is 100 years and not some other number.Petersen, R-Gilbert, said the number is arbitrary during a meeting about the…

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