Archive for the 'Grand Canyon' Category
Arizona Politics Trumps Economics; Students, Needy Families To Suffer
March 21, 2010
EDITORIAL
Are Arizona’s leaders, struggling with an overpowering deficit, downsizing state programs too far?
Last week, Gov. Jan Brewer signed the state’s fiscal 2011 budget of $8.9 billion, which is a reduction of $1.1 billion.
Budget supporters called the new budget a streamlining of state government. Critics say it is hardhearted, with more pain to follow.
Arizona’s [...]
Arizona’s Sunrise Walks and Wildlife, Chimichangas and Historic Buildings
March 7, 2010
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Just a few of my Arizona favorites: A lone bull elk grazing on the lawn early one November morning as I stepped out of El Tovar Lodge at Grand Canyon. I never had seen a bull elk, much less been so close to one. Lunch at the Arizona Biltmore Resort [...]
Arizona’s housing crisis fueled by many factors; end not yet in sight
Nov. 21, 2008
Arizona’s housing crisis is a complex issue sparked by a long list of factors, ranging from the current national economic crisis, to inadequate state regulations, to families who accepted mortgages they cannot afford, according to Arizona Town Hall’s newest report.
Other key influences include speculative investing in new and resale houses and the higher [...]
Close encounters of the not-so-wild kind at the Grand Canyon
Nov. 9, 2008
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. – On a moonless night earlier this month, I found myself in the middle of a herd of deer near the edge of the Grand Canyon’s south rim.
I was headed to the parking lot about 10 p.m. But a few feet outside the front door of the El Tovar Hotel, [...]
