Is hockey dying in the desert?

Average fan attendance for the Arizona Coyotes dropped 13 percent in the last decade. At the end of this NHL season , the team finished 30 out of 31 teams in attendance. The Coyotes attendance average for the 2007-2008 season was 14,820 fans. This season, they averaged 13,040 fans per game. The Coyotes play at…

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Arizona leads nation in female farmers

In Queen Creek, Arizona, you can find a 1.33-acre lot growing oranges, apples, figs, peaches, pears, grapes, sugarcane, lettuce, tomatoes, pepper, eggplant, okra, corn, green beans – and also raising chickens for meat and eggs, sheep for meat and goats for milk. It is one of 7,835 farms in Arizona run by a woman. The…

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UA’s lack of transparency sparks concern

Student data collected by the University of Arizona has ignited a debate. On March 7, UA announced it could use CatCard data to predict a student’s probability of returning for their second year of college. “By getting their digital traces, you can explore their patterns of movement, behavior and interactions,” said professor Sudha Ram, director…

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