Tim Valencia is the youth and education program manager for the City of Phoenix. Before participating in a panel on why Arizona is holding back third graders, he confessed to listening to Kelly Clarkson, explained how he came to eat grass-fed meat before it was trendy, and talked about the teacher who changed his life in the Zócalo green room.
When Michael M. Crow, the president of Arizona State University, introduced Craig R. Barrett, the former CEO and president of Intel, he called Barrett “a singularly important actor in one …
Fernanda Santos covers Arizona and New Mexico as the Phoenix bureau chief for The New York Times. Before moderating a panel on rebuilding neighborhoods after foreclosure, she talked the trials …
Long before the Interstate 8 connected Arizona and San Diego, there was the Old Plank Road. The name is what it sounds like. Wooden planks provided cars with a way …
Americans are trading places. The more affluent are moving into city centers, and the lower classes are being displaced to the suburbs. It’s what urbanologist Alan Ehrenhalt calls a “demographic …
“How many people here are natives of Arizona?” asked Flinn Foundation President and CEO Jack Jewett. Only a few hands in the large audience at Tucson’s Hotel Congress, at an …
