OPINION — The reviews of “Toy Story 5” have settled into a comfortable consensus: It’s a movie about children and digital screens, and about the parents who worry over them. Director and co-writer Andrew Stanton has said as much, describing the film’s central crisis as the fact that “nobody’s really playing” anymore. The tears in theaters, the BBC declared, belong to parents watching a child’s loneliness unfold.
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PHOENIX – Five minutes after stepping into a beaver pond on the Little Colorado River, Chase Newlon realized Arizona wasn’t the fishing desert about which he had been warned.
The water was …
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Gilbert-based nonprofit The Undie Chest provides new underwear to students facing hygiene poverty, working with Arizona school districts to help keep children comfortable, confident and in class.
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OPINION — For the first time in several years, America has encouraging news in the fight against suicide. New data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, based on the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show that suicides have declined modestly since reaching a record high in 2022. Expanded access to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, greater public awareness and improvements in crisis response may all be contributing to that progress.
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The Arizona Department of Transportation and its project partners will conduct a virtual public information meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 5, regarding construction work scheduled on another segment of …
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The Trump administration has announced it is ending a temporary Biden-era Medicare Part D premium stabilization subsidy on Dec. 31, eliminating roughly $3.6 billion in insurer subsidies. That could …
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OPINION — As a blind professional and proud team member at Arizona Industries for the Blind, I know firsthand that blindness is not a barrier to success; outdated public policies and misconceptions are.
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PHOENIX - The head of the state prison system wants a federal judge to give him a little more time to fix problems in its healthcare system before seizing control of it.
In a new court filing, …
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A Maricopa County eviction diversion pilot program plans to launch by the end of August.
The program aims to help county residents who have fallen behind on rent and face possible eviction.
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Three people died, including the suspect who was shot by police, following fatal stabbings Saturday night at a home near Lindsay and Elliot roads in Gilbert, authorities said.
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Salt River Project last week celebrated the completion of the Gilbert Road Pipeline project, which is designed to enhance water reliability and flexibility throughout the Valley, SRP officials said.
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