By RuthAnn Hogue
PINAL COUNTY (Aug. 30) — Paul Babeu wants voters to choose him to be their next sheriff because he’s “the most well-rounded” candidate.
That’s among the qualifications the Chandler Police officer related to audiences in recent candidate forums in both the city of Maricopa and Gold Canyon designed to help voters select future leaders.
While [...]

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FLORENCE (Aug. 14) – Sept. 1 is the deadline for filing for the Senior Property Valuation Protection or more commonly known as the ‘Senior Freeze.’
“This is an important program approved by the state that allows us to freeze the full cash value of a primary residence,” Pinal County Assessor Paul Larkin said. “What [...]

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The Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Custom Enforcement Division on Aug. 7 completed its second annual compliance audit of the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office Adult Detention Center with positive results.
On Aug. 5, a team of five auditors from Creative Corrections in Beaumont, Texas, under contract with the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at [...]

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By RuthAnn Hogue
The sound of construction workers and their vehicles didn’t stop to take notice that a small group had gathered at the northwest corner of Porter Road and the Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway to celebrate the groundbreaking for Maricopa’s first Walmart.
Maricopa’s mayors, most recently past and present, were on hand to dig in with ceremonial [...]

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By RuthAnn Hogue
MARICOPA (Aug. 8 ) — Hundreds of families are expected to line up on Saturday to register their children in the state’s largest Tutor Time child care and learning center as part of the facility’s grand opening open house.
Those who do take advantage of limited enrollment opportunities at the center between 8 a.m. [...]

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By RuthAnn Hogue
MGriddles. McMuffins. Breakfast burritos and biscuits with anything from chicken to sausage or steak.
Whether bagged up with hash browns and cold orange juice, milk or a hot cup of joe, they’ll be ready and waiting for Maricopa’s commuters beginning at 5 a.m. Friday.
By then, the first shift of workers selected from the store’s [...]

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(ARA) - When shopping for real estate, bigger used to mean better.  But preferences are changing, particularly in a tight economy where every dollar needs to go further.  A new aesthetic is taking hold, and it’s been dubbed “affordable luxury.”
“Affordable luxury means living within your means, and yet surrounded by beauty, style and convenience,” says [...]

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(ARA) – Home buyers and sellers – the relationship may seem like it should be more adversarial than ever, given the current market. Coming at the real estate equation from opposite sides, buyers and sellers may feel they have little in common. The truth is, however, that both groups share a common path to real [...]

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NEW YORK — (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — The U.S. commercial real estate market’s downturn continued in the second quarter of 2008, hurt by a weak economy, the credit disruption, tepid tenant demand and a wide pricing gap, according to the latest edition of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Korpacz Real Estate Investor Survey(r).

A plunge of as much as 81 [...]

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