In Mesa, we’ve seen the extraordinary impact that infrastructure investment can have on our local economy. Since the Valley Metro Rail first opened in 2008, the Phoenix Metropolitan area saw over $11 billion in development along the light rail route and the creation of over 50 million square…
Gideon J. Tucker was writing about his home state of New York when he penned this famous observation: “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session!”
Her name was Maria Eliza Sebastian Ruiz, 77 years old. She was married 60 years, a mother of five, a grandmother. She died early July 6 on her front porch in Phoenix, mauled by a pack of four hulking Staffordshire terrier mixes.
Love means you never have to say you’re sorry,” or so Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal told us in the 1970 motion picture, “Love Story.” But over a half century later, the love of money has Hollywood falling all over itself to apologize to Communist China.
One of the things I miss most about America was how people used to believe certain topics shouldn’t be discussed in public.
You may find the description below distasteful, disturbing and overwrought. But after reading this column, you may very well agree with the assessment.
As faith leaders, we understand that we are living through a critical moment in which we are called to love our neighbors in word and in deed. That call to love extends to all of our neighbors, even those who have made mistakes.
Shell games involving subterfuge, confusion, and separating people from their money. That’s exactly what’s happening right now in the City of Mesa – a massive shell game being used to pay for a new $100 million ASU campus at the expense of public safety.
Serving as mayor of Mesa for the last six years has been a humbling and inspiring experience.
You’ve heard the old joke about the minister who uses the invocation he delivers at a political banquet as both a warning and a teaching moment: “Oh Lord, make our words sweet, for one day we may have to eat them!”
