In a speech that went on for about 35 minutes, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego delivered her annual State of the City Address before an audience at the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce that focused on the themes of gratitude, achievement, and unleashed potential for the Grand Canyon State’s Capitol City. From the first moments of … Read more
In a speech filled with tributes to families, colleagues and friends, a list of accomplishments during her tenure, and a desire to steer the fifth largest city in the country toward tomorrow, Kate Gallego was sworn in for her second term as Phoenix Mayor earlier today. Urging her colleagues on the City and in the … Read more
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and the organization she is the chair of, Climate Mayors, is pushing back against Musk/Trump/Vance’s efforts to cut off funding for FEMA operations and the program designed to aid low-income families in getting monies to pay for their summer air conditioning. On the drive to cut off FEMA funding to National … Read more
Last week (February 10, 2025,) the organization Climate Mayors mailed a letter, signed by 133 Mayors and local officials, to the Chairpersons and Ranking Members of both the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees calling on them not to repeal the clean energy tax credits contained in the Inflation Reduction Act. Originally reported … Read more
In 2019, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and the then Phoenix Council unveiled, of the COVID 19 Pandemic and Recession that dominated in 2020, the Housing Phoenix Plan that was designed to create or preserve 50,000 housing units by 2030. Fast forward five years and Gallego and the current Phoenix City Council announced that the 50,000 … Read more