Melrose, known as Phoenix’s ‘gayborhood,’ might only be a mile-long, but its vibrance and cultural significance can’t be underestimated. Located on 7th Avenue between Indian School Road and Camelback Road, this neighborhood brings color, vitality, and a feeling of inclusivity to downtown Phoenix with its iconic Melrose arch, rainbow crosswalk, and LGBTQ+ friendly businesses.
To help you enjoy the very best of this one-of-a-kind neighborhood, we talked Piper M’Shay, the first-ever Miss Gay Melrose America, and a Melrose resident of three years. You can find her at one of the neighborhood’s best-loved bars, Charlie’s, five nights a week performing show-stopping drag shows.
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The Bunk House Covid care centre
Lalit Kiri’s story is a rags-to-riches tale of a pharmacist who made it big supplying logistical services to Cairn Energy while it was exploring for oil in Rajasthan’s Barmer, and continued to grow after that. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, he had been urging the state government to use ‘container bunk houses’ shipping containers that are repurposed as rooms on construction sites to set up makeshift Covid hospitals in areas without medical infrastructure.
A few weeks ago, state revenue minister Harish Chaudhary sent Kiri an urgent request to set up a Covid care centre at Sambhara, near Pachpadra using these bunkhouses, giving him just 24 hours to do so. Despite the difficulty, Kiri managed to get the job done, putting a hundred people including plumbers, electricians, landscapers and transporters as well as equipment like JCBs (diggers) on the job. “A hundred of us did not sleep for 24 hours,” he says
Cheyenne Mayor: No Excuses for Pothole Problem
Cheyenne Mayor Patrick Collins says there are no excuses for the city s pothole problem, the city simply hasn t been doing the basic maintenance required to keep its 350 miles of roads in good shape. Our Street and Alley crews are working so hard to patch the potholes, but they do not control the required maintenance of crack filling, sealing the roads, and milling and overlays, Collins said Friday in his Mayor s Minute column.
Currently, $4.5 million in 5th penny money goes to roads each year, but Collins says it s not enough to stabilize them.
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