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How I survive scorching Phoenix summers

The midsummer heat of Phoenix is unbearable to an adult human being - unless you take a lesson from the desert wildlife, and adapt.

by Aaron Gilbreath, Sep 15, 2011
How I ran for a U.S. Senate seat, and what I learned

A first-hand account by a longtime Arizona investigative reporter, John Dougherty, about his surprising Senate campaign.

by John Dougherty, Oct 25, 2010
The Growth Machine is Broken

Phoenix land-use planners want to use a chunk of state trust land as a laboratory for future, more sustainable real estate development.

by John Dougherty , Apr 27, 2009
When good times go bad

After years of prosperity and breakneck growth, Phoenix and its Western siblings have crashed hard thanks to the recession. And the food banks and other social services are very busy.

by Emily Steinmetz, Apr 24, 2009
Surprise!

Surprise, Ariz., exemplifies the Arizona real estate collapse along with what many see as the rise and fall of the car-dependent Western exurb.

by Rob Inglis and Jonathan Thompson , Apr 24, 2009
The street hierarchy

Aaron Gilbreath mulls the very large difference between being a pedestrian in ultra-cool Portland, Ore., and in sprawling Phoenix, Ariz.

by Aaron Gilbreath, Sep 15, 2008
Heard Around the West

Biodiesel pirates; dinosaur bones for sale; archaeological developments; hot weather and cool bankrobbers; what to do with a big dead moose.

by Betsy Marston, Jun 09, 2008
Planning for uncertainty

A Phoenix symposium on dealing with drought and global warming echoes the larger uncertainties facing public-land and national park managers throughout the West.

by Paul Larmer, Feb 04, 2008
Dry to the bone

Despite a relatively snowy winter here in western Colorado, the season itself seems to have shrunk, with spring arriving weeks earlier than it once did in a trend with ominous consequences for the desert Southwest, particularly Phoenix.

by Paul Larmer, Apr 16, 2007
Phoenix Falling?

Craig Childs lifts the rug of modern-day Phoenix, Ariz., to examine the remnants of the civilization that preceded it – the Hohokam people, who also built a great city in the middle of the desert, and flourished until the day they ran out of water.

by Craig Childs, Apr 16, 2007