New data show child care in Arizona is more expensive than college. The challenge of bringing down the cost of child care. Plus, a Pulitzer-nominated playwright on dramatizing racial violence.
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Getty ImagesFederal funding for people who need help paying to heat or cool their homes is in jeopardy after employees in the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program or LIHEAP were laid off. -
Amber Victoria Singer/KJZZAn important chapter in Tempe’s architectural and artistic history may be coming to an end. There are potentially big changes coming to Danelle Plaza. -
Getty ImagesNew numbers from a group called the Economic Policy Institute find child care in a majority of states, including Arizona, is more expensive than college. -
Gabriel Pietrorazio/KJZZIn the fallout, some of the Hayes descendants are stepping up. These relatives were reminded why they keep on sharing his story — even eight decades later — from where he grew up on the Gila River Indian Community. -
Wayne AllisonIra Hayes is arguably Arizona’s most iconic World War II hero, as one of six Marines who famously raised the American flag at Iwo Jima. -
Marina Waters, Crash Course BooksThe World Health Organization says nearly 11 million people around the world were diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2023. Author John Green has written about this. -
Jason Zeren“Hang Time,” a play by Pulitzer finalist Zora Howard, depicts three Black men hanging in a tree. A breeze blows intermittently, and their bodies sway as they give monologues and have conversations about their lives.
