Home Buying New initiative offers to chip in 2% at a time when home affordability has never been worse. First-time buyers account for about half of all home shoppers, according to Zillow’s 2023 Consumer Housing Trends Report. – Adobe Stock By Cameron Sperance — Boston.com correspondent September 12, 2023 | 10:33 AM The cost of…
PHOENIX — Just last month, more than 1,000 Arizona consumers turned to our Let Joe Know problem-solvers for help.The number of Arizonans coming to us with frustrating consumer issues has been growing steadily for months.”By the time I contacted you I felt I was at wit’s end,” one consumer said.”I don’t have money for a…
PHOENIX — Some shipping containers that once stood on Arizona’s border to keep people out are now being converted into tiny homes that welcome people in.Wholistic Transformation, a Tucson, Arizona, faith-based nonprofit organization, is using shipping containers from former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s makeshift border wall to build tiny homes for young people transitioning out of…
Table of Contents {{ tocState.toggleTocShowMore ? ‘Show more’ : ‘Show less’ }} Arizona’s sunny weather makes solar power a smart move for the state’s residents. The Grand Canyon State has become one of the foremost states for solar since its Renewable Energy Standard was instituted alongside a solar sales tax exemption in the early 2000s….
Preston now leads local sales, operations, and engagement efforts across Optimum’s West Texas, Arizona, Nevada, and California footprintFLAGSTAFF, AZ, September 07, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Optimum, the local provider of internet, mobile, TV, and phone services, today announces the appointment of Kathleen Preston as Vice President, General Manager of the company’s West Pacific Area serving West Texas, Arizona,…
The Arizona Coyotes and general manager Bill Armstrong have agreed to a multiyear contract extension, the team announced Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know: The terms of the contract extension were not disclosed. Armstrong has been GM of the Coyotes since Sept. 17, 2020. The Coyotes have missed the playoffs in all three seasons…
The Pac-12 Conference hasn’t lost a college football game this season, in case you haven’t heard.All 12 Pac-12 teams won in Week 1 of the season, and USC won in Week 0 as well, giving the conference a perfect 13-0 record entering Week 2.Not bad for a conference that is in the midst of losing…
Scott Shumaker, East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Ariz.)September 4, 2023 at 7:16 AMSep. 4—A Mesa resident who is president of the East Valley chapter of the NAACP says the community must continue to have uncomfortable conversations about racism.The remarks by Kiana Sears, a second-term Mesa Public Schools Governing Board member, were prompted by the Supreme Court’s…
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo., September 01, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pioneer Landscape Centers, a distributor of landscape and hardscape materials with 35 locations in Colorado and Arizona, today announced that it has completed its sale to SiteOne® Landscape Supply, Inc. (NYSE: SITE), the largest and only national full product line wholesale distributor of landscape supplies in the United States.This…
PRESCOTT, AZ — A new home was meant to usher in a peaceful retirement for Martin and Pam Husereau. After falling in love with the community and the beautiful views in Prescott, they bought a new home in a Dorn Homes community. Martin says, however, that just months after moving in, they were facing a…