SNAP food benefits largely help children living in poverty — and now they're being cut. We’ll hear about Arizona's dismal record of combating childhood poverty and where the current cuts leave us. Plus, why a citizen group wants Scottsdale to join its lawsuit against a new state law.
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Jimmy Jenkins/KJZZThe Scottsdale City Council this week once again declined to vote in favor of joining a lawsuit challenging a new state law. The measure essentially nullified a referendum in Scottsdale over a proposed development by Axon. -
Chelsey Heath/KJZZIn Tuesday’s elections, voters considered requests from school districts across the Valley to use local property taxes to increase budgets and fund new construction. Early returns show mixed results. -
Michel Marizco/KJZZParts of Arizona are starting to see temperatures dip, but with the federal government shutdown, home heating assistance money is not available. -
Sky Schaudt/KJZZAs the federal shutdown drags on, SNAP food benefits recipients remain in limbo. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release contingency funds to pay the benefits, but the president said he would withhold the benefits until the shutdown ends. -
Ellyn DeMuynck/HandoutEllyn DeMuynck expected to retire as an anthropologist at the National Parks Service. That is, until she was fired, along with about 1,000 of her colleagues earlier this year. -
PublicAffairs, Rebekah Sampson/HandoutDanny Rensch was born into a spiritual community based in Tonto Village. He said the group was a cult, and in his new memoir, “Dark Squares,” he tells the story of how playing chess became a pathway out of the group’s clutches.
