Commentary

As to whom they’ll all dote over that day, Doreen will still be the matriarch. For the first time, though, she will not have her own mom on Mother’s Day.

One particular group of students, however, observed the end of the school year in a comparatively reserved but nonetheless celebratory way.

In other words, as we have said many times, we aren’t looking under rocks for headline-grabbing sensationalism.

Marketing/public-relations director and designated broker for real estate superstar Michael Pollack, Patrick Cassidy sits back on the wrought-iron chair at a Tempe Starbucks and launches into a story about a woman who awoke one morning hearing her 2-year-old son screaming in agony.

We are still in the midst of a strong seller market—both locally in the Kyrene Corridor and throughout most of the Valley.

Sure, other community newspapers do it. But we’re not like everyone else.

Any time a tragic event happens, you remember where you were when you heard the news. That’s how it was for me and the Boston Marathon bombing.

A fundraiser for a Tempe Union High School District student battling a rare, life-threatening illness, takes place 5-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 24 at The Foothills Golf Club, 2201 E. Clubhouse Drive, Phoenix.