President Joe Biden signed a two-year agreement - a compromise between Republicans, who wanted larger spending reductions, and the White House, which wanted no spending cuts - to suspend the debt limit until Jan. 1, 2025, with both cuts and increases in federal spending. Read more»
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The launch of 2nd Saturdays Downtown is Saturday from 5-10 p.m., and features live music at several venues, an outdoor stage, and out on the thoroughfare. Does this new event have the formula for resurrecting a downtown tradition? Read more»
In a new book, Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All, the staff of The Washington Post writes about various provisions of the new health law. Here is information on mandatory insurance coverage. Read more»
Tucson’s “First Lady of Fashion,” Cele Peterson, died Thursday morning. She was 101. Read more»
We don't really have much of a choice when it comes to the Proposition 100 vote. Would you rather pay a temporary 1-cent sales tax to educate children and fund public safety or a permanent property tax to pay for more jail cells? Read more»
Things are turning ugly in Greece. Three people were reportedly killed in Athens Wednesday, after protesters set a bank ablaze — the first fatalities of the widespread unrest now gripping the unhappy Greek capital. Read more»
The study to determine whether Phoenix should maintain a racial preference program in awarding concession contracts at Sky Harbor International Airport is still unfinished almost two years after the original deadline. Read more»
Former Suns star Charles Barkley and Gov. Jan Brewer might not make for a great matchup on the boards, but what about in the war of words? Barkley is calling for professional sports to boycott Arizona because of SB 1070. Brewer penned an op-ed for ESPN saying a boycott is "the wrong play." Read more»
Oil's well that ends well? Not for the fish, not for the birds, and not for the fishermen and residents of coastal towns on the Gulf of Mexico. Read more»
Tucson will mount a legal challenge to Arizona's controversial new immigration law, SB 1070, the City Council decided Tuesday. Read more»
The American Bar Association is being pressured to cancel its conference set for next week in Phoenix. Read more»
The dark side of the global economy - here's why the math is ugly. Read more»
Many increasingly popular news outlets in the United States are global information powerhouses, and successful modern reporters will be those able to best deconstruct our globalized world. Read more»
Support for Democrats by independents on several issues has slipped in the past year, according to a poll by a conservative research group. Read more»
There is growing evidence that fraud was at the heart of the current financial crisis. But so far, no high-level bank executives have been hauled off to jail. Read more»
55 percent of Americans rate the nation's health care system as good or excellent, compared with 44 percent in February and 35 percent when President Obama first proposed his health care legislation. Read more»
