Lee Shappell
Lee Shappell became a journalist because he didn’t become a rocket scientist! He exhausted the math courses available by his junior year in high school and earned early admission to Rice University, intending to take advantage of its relationship with the Johnson Space Center and become an aerospace engineer. But as a high school senior, needing a class to be eligible for sports with no more math available, he took student newspaper as a credit and was hooked. He studied journalism at the UofA and has been senior reporter, copy desk chief and managing editor at several Valley publications.
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The 3 ‘P’s’ to prosperity
Aspiring medical student. Snowmobile repairman. Sled-dog musher. Working with indigenous people in Canada. Man of the cloth. They’re all part of his life’s journey that shaped him and step by step brought Kevin Hartke to be mayor of Chandler.
2 Tempe ruggers on U.S. team take place in spotlight in Tokyo Olympics
Brett Thompson, of Marcos de Niza High and the University of Arizona, and Maceo Brown, of Corona del Sol and Grand Canyon University, shine in Tokyo on U.S. Olympic rugby team.
BACK TO SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Difficult times prompt creative...
Arizona’s state funding for education remains among the lowest in the country. The talent pool can make more money doing something else so recruiters must think outside the box to land them.
3 1/2-year, $777 mil Broadway Curve project work to begin Friday, July 23
A nearly four-year, 11-mile massive rebuilding of Interstate 10, including the headache-inducing Broadway Curve in Tempe, begins Friday, July 23.
Testing of Tempe’s ‘Green Machine’ begins along 3-mile streetcar route
The Tempe Streetcar system, which is expected to take traffic off busy downtown streets, is to make its debut late this year.
10W30 INSTEAD OF PINOT GRIGIO … Oil-change shop goes up on S. Tempe lot where neighbors wanted wine bar
Despite overwhelming opposition from neighbors, it appears that plans are moving forward for an oil-change pit at McClintock and Warner in South Tempe.
Tempe OKs $104M for Police Dept. in new $1.2B budget although police task force work not quite complete
Tempe attempting to return to fiscal normalcy after COVID-19 pandemic caused belt tightening in an austere budget a year ago.
Chandler seeks ‘return to normalcy’ in adoption of $1.1B fiscal-year budget
There will be a slight reduction in property-tax rate, to $1.1126 per $100,000 of assessed valuation from $1.1201, due to increased property valuation in Chandler.
Lee Shappell
Lee Shappell became a journalist because he didn’t become a rocket scientist! He exhausted the math courses available by his junior year in high school and earned early admission to Rice University, intending to take advantage of its relationship with the Johnson Space Center and become an aerospace engineer. But as a high school senior, needing a class to be eligible for sports with no more math available, he took student newspaper as a credit and was hooked. He studied journalism at the UofA and has been senior reporter, copy desk chief and managing editor at several Valley publications.
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