If you have an opinion on how Tempe can improve its streets, listen up. Whether you think your neighborhood needs more speed bumps, more bike lanes, or needs to take a different approach to bringing in businesses, the only way your opinion can be heard is if you show up and let it be heard. [...]
Their careers may have only recently started, but three graduates of the Public Relations Lab at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications already have achieved a major milestone. The grads, Cassidy Olson, Rachel Steingard and Samantha Womer, comprise the creative team being credited with developing a community-wide, educational approach to curbing underage [...]
Members of Buena Vista Mavericks 4-H Club, based at the Buena Vista Ranchos neighborhood in south Tempe, are on the fundraising trail again for a cause they’ve long supported. The group is selling tickets to Macy’s seventh annual one-day Shop for a Cause charity shopping event, scheduled Aug. 25. BV members are selling passes for [...]
Tempe police say they’ve increased their watch for people who may be under the influence of bath salts, an easily ingestible designer drug that can lead to violent behavior. Bath salts were banned for sale in Arizona earlier this year after reports of severe reactions among users around the country, including a bizarre case of [...]
As interim pastor at Mission del Sol Presbyterian Church in south Tempe, Dr. Larry Corbett stays busy every day with a variety of jobs that are typical for most pastors.He leads Bible studies, and the weekly worship services, too. He writes his weekly sermon every Friday like clockwork, and he counsels church members who are [...]
More than 1,000 employees are expected to relocate to a new operations center being planned by QBE First, an international insurance group, when it takes over a 183,000-square-foot facility near the Chandler mall. The company has signed an 11-year lease that will house a call center, according to Steve Lindstrom, regional operations executive. QBE, through [...]
Cryptographic technology to ensure secure voice and data transmission for military, government and some Fortune 500 companies is now being produced by Cummings Engineering, a tenant in the landmark Innovations Incubator facility in west Chandler. Cummings, established in 2007, calls SecureMobile 1.0 its flagship product that is now a standard-setter for mobile security. Darren Cummings, [...]
Budget planning for Tempe’s 2012-13 fiscal year was due to wind down June 28 with a final City Council vote, including the councilmembers’ decision on the city’s property-tax level and rate. The fiscal year begins July 1. Economic recovery is coming to Tempe as predicted, say officials, with monthly sales tax revenues improving modestly. Yet [...]
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Though crime rates are dropping in Tempe, the mall at Arizona Mills remains one of the highest crime areas and one of the most likely places to have your car stolen. According to Tempe police, the city experienced a decrease in all crimes including homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor-vehicle theft and arson [...]
