2026 Best of the Valley2026 Best of the Valley: Our Favorite People & Media
Our editorial picks for local personalities and media consumables.
Our editorial picks for local personalities and media consumables.
Does Jay Feely re-identifying as a Phoenix-Scottsdalian to run in CD-1 make him a carpetbagger?
Following a humiliating 2024 election – and the even more-humiliating ouster of their new chairman this summer – Arizona Democrats look for a way to clean up the mess.
Face it, Arizona Democrats – your party leaders screwed Election Day from the get-go.
Valley politicians Yassamin Ansari and Abe Hamadeh are all but certain to debut as House lawmakers this January. How their rise to office changes things in Arizona – and changes nothing at all.
Like it or not, and even if the perceptions themselves are faulty, presidents get blamed for the economy – good or bad.
From athletes and educators to artists and entrepreneurs, our 2023 class of superlative Valley dwellers is raising the proverbial bar.
Fitzgerald took a time-out from his duties to talk about his kinda-sorta retirement, strategies for exiting a party gracefully and plans not to run for Arizona Governor.
From sports to technology to that bullet train to Tucson we’ve always wanted, peer into the Valley’s collective future.
A glimpse of the goings on in Phoenix this fall.
Our editorial picks for local personalities and media consumables.
Arizona's new state climatologist eschews personal politics in favor of dispassionate dispatches.
From public servants to entrepreneurs, these 48 Phoenicians are raising the bar in the Valley and beyond.
Politics, the Pandemic and the Pulpit: Valley churches grapple with how – or if – to address COVID-19 in an increasingly political world
Lobbyists are all sleazy guys in suits, right? Not so, says Phoenix sports lobbyist Rana Lashgari.