Fast-casual pizzerias, the kind that let you build your own pizza and have it ready to eat in three minutes or less, are popping up throughout Arizona. Tucson alone has seen three fast-casual restaurant open since early August — two of them located across the street from the University of Arizona campus and the third a…
Visitor spending reached an all-time high for Arizona last year, and is expected to be even higher by the end of 2014. Last year, 39.1 million visitors spent a record $19.8 billion in counties across the state, said Sherry Henry, executive director of the Arizona Office of Tourism. This surge in tourism generated local, state…
Arizona receives triple the number of refugees it did almost 20 years ago, creating both volume and diversity challenges for resettlement agencies. The Office of Refugee Resettlement has been fair in allotting funds to Arizona over the years, said Charles Shipman, Arizona’s state refugee coordinator. The key task has been adapting services to an increasingly…
Catherine Radachi, a 22-year-old associate consultant at Microsoft, hiked the hills and valleys of Arizona enjoying the solitude while sharing her adventures with the world. Radachi, now working for Microsoft in Washington, finds value in using social media to share her exploits outdoors. “People document their experiences all the time at parties and on vacations,…
A professor at the University of Arizona is giving sight back to those who once saw. Since 2002, Dr. Wolfgang Fink, an associate professor in the UA Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, and colleagues have been working on a new way to give sight to those whose vision has been…
