This has been a busy first six months of 2023 for Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, the City Council, and everyone else that works everyday to make the fifth largest city in the nation what the Mayor calls “the future and city to watch.” From Phoenix hosting the Super Bowl to working on providing affordable housing … Read more
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Phoenix Kate Gallego joined the Governor’s new Director of Resiliency, Maren Mahoney, and other specialists in clean energy at an event sponsored by the Arizona Technology Council that touted the federal government investments in sustainability programs through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. These pieces of legislation have … Read more
“I’ve almost no words to describe what Canadian mining giant Hudbay is doing to the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson, AZ,” said Russ McSpadden of the Center for Biological Diversity. “The first 20 seconds of the video show the Rosemont side, then the ridge line, then the west side. Hudbay plans to remove 2.5 miles … Read more
Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature passed their version of the Prop 400 Extension on road and transportation infrastructure projects for Maricopa County on June 13, 2023. Unfortunately, their idea of good road and transportation projects for infrastructure, according to reporting from AZ Central and other sources over the last several days, did not include … Read more
When giving her State of the City Address, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to include extreme heat in its declared disasters list. In a letter to FEMA, Mayor Gallego, according to an official press release: wrote: “Heat causes more deaths each year than most other natural hazards combined, … Read more