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Maricopa County Fair Now Open at the Arizona State Fairgrounds

Maricopa County Fair Now Open at the Arizona State Fairgrounds

Come one, come all, to the Maricopa County Fair! If you don’t want to wait until the State Fair in the fall, then be sure to make an appearance the County Fair this weekend. With carnival rides, fair food (nothing

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Study: Arizona’s Gender Wage Gap Costs the State’s Women Nearly $6 Billion Per Year

Study: Arizona’s Gender Wage Gap Costs the State’s Women Nearly $6 Billion Per Year

(Washington, DC) – On average, Arizona women employed full time, year round are paid just 84 cents for every dollar paid to men – a yearly pay gap of $7,029. That means, in total, women in Arizona lose nearly $6 billion every year,

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The Scottsdale Culinary Festival to Delight Valley Foodies This Weekend

The Scottsdale Culinary Festival to Delight Valley Foodies This Weekend

Do you want to support the arts in the most delicious way possible? Thanks to the Scottsdale Culinary Festival, you can do just that. What began as a fundraiser for the Scottsdale League of the Arts some 37 years ago,

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Street Food Cinema Presents: ‘The Princess Bride’ this Saturday, April 16th

Street Food Cinema Presents: ‘The Princess Bride’ this Saturday, April 16th

The perfect movie, is there such a thing? Some might say it’s inconceivable, but fans of The Princess Bride may protest. The perfect film, with food trucks you say? Now we’re talking. Brought to you by Street Food Cinema, this

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Phoenix Offering Free Tax-Filing Services through April 18

Phoenix Offering Free Tax-Filing Services through April 18

The city of Phoenix’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) campaign helps working families who earned less than $54,000 in 2015 with free tax preparation and filing services. Sixteen primary sites, located in Phoenix, are still offering free tax preparation and

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Airline Performance Was Up, but So Were Passenger Complaints in 2015

Airline Performance Was Up, but So Were Passenger Complaints in 2015

By: Marisela Ramirez Cronkite News (Washington, DC) – Airline passengers got slightly better service last year – but they weren’t happy about it. That was the finding of the 2016 Airline Quality Rating, which said domestic carriers did a slightly better job with

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El Niño’s Dry Conditions May Spur Bad Arizona Wildfire Season

El Niño’s Dry Conditions May Spur Bad Arizona Wildfire Season

By Kendall Bartley | Cronkite News (Flagstaff, AZ) – Fire officials in Flagstaff are preparing for wildfire season as El Niño unexpectedly left Arizona with dry conditions that can spark fire danger. Southwest dry this fire season “El Niño was expected to

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Phoenix’s Growing Warehouse District Attracts New Events Venue, The Vintage 45

Phoenix’s Growing Warehouse District Attracts New Events Venue, The Vintage 45

By: Gilbert Cordova Cronkite News (Phoenix, AZ) – Eneyas Freitas grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He’s now the executive director of The Vintage 45, a new multipurpose events space in Phoenix’s burgeoning warehouse district. He said the space – and the community

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Arizona House Speaker Bans Media From Floor After Reporters Refuse Background Check

Arizona House Speaker Bans Media From Floor After Reporters Refuse Background Check

By: Miguel Otarola Cronkite News (Phoenix, AZ) – Arizona Statehouse reporters, in protest of a new “invasive” background check instituted by House Speaker David Gowan, covered Thursday’s session from the public gallery instead of the House floor. The background checks are the

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Recap of Chingona Soles: A First-Friday Shoe Show at Luna Culture Lab

Recap of Chingona Soles: A First-Friday Shoe Show at Luna Culture Lab

By: Rosa Cardenas, Blush Boutique I can’t concentrate in flats! – Victoria Beckham On April 1st, I had the opportunity to put on a shoe show for Chingona Soles by Luna Culture Lab and TMC Communications. Chingona Soles is an

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