Jimmy Magahern, Author at PHOENIX magazine

Hillcrest Prep in Phoenix helped produce the top two picks in the 2018 NBA draft and has already spawned a Scottsdale competitor. Is the Valley’s first “basketball factory” a slam-dunk for hoops prodigies, or an academic foul-out waiting to happen?

A new ASU study finds the suicide rate of Arizona seniors is rising among men. Is it a crisis to be solved, or an increasingly accepted “pre-emptive” choice?

Phoenix now lead the nation in officer-involved shootings, uniting both activists and officers in concern. But the two sides remain dangerously divided on who’s to blame for the surge.

How Filiberto’s became Arizona’s most ubiquitous and endlessly copied restaurant chain – while building its true success south of the border.

Now that the Mormon church has opted out of the girls-welcoming Boy Scouts, what will happen to scouting culture in the LDS-heavy East Valley?

To fill Arizona’s teacher shortage, some school districts are recruiting teachers from abroad. Coul this hurt in-state teachers battling for higher pay?

Two Valley women were busted for performing dental work without a license. Arizona’s attorney general says this type of “dangerous fraud” happens more than most realize.

As budgets tighten, teachers and administrators clash within the state’s largest community college system.

How Arizona’s young student activists – and their teachers – are learning the new tools of protest together in the age of Trump.

Citing budget woes, football programs are being cut at Maricopa County’s four community colleges. But players and coaches aren’t going down without a fight.

Having tripled its campus footprint and grown twentyfold, Grand Canyon University sets its sights on respect from the higher-education community.