If you think Arizona wine doesn’t compare to wine made in Sonoma or Napa Valley, you’re right. Arizona wine doesn’t compare, but not for the reasons you may think. Robert Leopardi, Southern Arizona director of sales for Quench Fine Wines, has been working his way up the wine industry for 40 years. In his current…
PHOENIX — This week saw a host of memorials, resolutions, and other bills going through the Senate and House. While lofty-sounding and sometimes addressing big international issues, these are merely suggestions or tokens of goodwill. Outside of that, the Capitol was rocked by a (minor) scandal, as prominent lobbyist Cathi Herrod of the Center for Arizona…
Count with me. Eight, seven, six, keep it up, five, four, three, don’t let go, two, one. Sure eight seconds might feel like a blip in time for most, but for the Southwestern warriors of the rodeo, eight seconds is an eternity. Go ahead and ask any rodeo cowboy how they got into this life,…
Tyler Stewart, a 24-year-old Flagstaff police officer, was dispatched to a domestic abuse incident in 2014, outfitted with the department’s newly purchased body cameras. Within minutes of speaking with a man about the incident, the situation turned tragic. In an instant on the chilly afternoon of Dec. 27, the man pulled out a gun from…
Seventy. That’s the percentage of fourth graders in Arizona who don’t read proficiently. If that isn’t alarming enough, a whopping 56 percent of third-graders failed the reading portion of the AzMERIT test in 2017, meaning they scored neither proficient nor highly proficient. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 65 percent of fourth-graders nationwide…
