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Arizona hiking already has enough challenges – heat, lack of water, cacti, critters, crowds – to foil many without strong constitutions. Now try adding a layer of red tape. While most of the best hikes in the state are on BLM or Forest Service land, requiring nothing but shoes and a smile to get in, a few really extraordinary journeys lay tucked behind the gates of bureaucracy. A good hiker should know how to climb over obstacles. Here’s an insider’s guide to five of them.

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The jury has spoken! The votes have been tallied and our fifth annual list of the Valley's top legal eagles is a matter of record. From AI law to criminal defense to malpractice litigation, these peer-selected attorneys will always do your case justice. 

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Judgement Day is upon us, friends. In observance, we humbly offer this no-holds-barred handicap of the critical statewide and congressional races to be settled on November 3 – and attempt to explain why down-ballot offices that never mattered much in the past, suddenly do.