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Arizona universities play key role in Covid recovery
People use a footbridge over University Avenue on the campus of Arizona State University on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)
My parents arrived in Arizona from India in the early 1990s, settling in an economy disrupted by a national recession in 1991. Despite this, Arizona’s rugged desert landscape and dry heat quickly became home for my family. Throughout the last decade of the 20th century my family grew slowly, first with the addition of a loving American Eskimo and later with my own birth, and as my family grew so did the state in which we lived. Now 30 years later, Arizona is a different place, one offering broad new levels of opportunity and ways to thrive.
Urban Air Adventure parks are not new to Arizona, with their family-fun locations in Ahwatukee, Peoria and Queen Creek.
But the one that will be coming to Gilbert will be a lot different from those three and most of its 154 indoor parks nationwide.
The 10-year-old, Dallas-based family fun franchise has picked Gilbert for its flagship corporate western showcase.
And the two-story, 50,000-square-foot park it plans to open by yearâs end at E. Williams Field Road and S. Santan Village Parkway will that will have unique attractions.
Those include an electric go-kart track and laser tag field spanning both floors, multi-level rope-climbing, an enormous inflatable landing pad perched below a series of trampolines and a ârunway tumble track for flipping, handspringing and cartwheeling.
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Report: Arizona a âshining exampleâ for Democrats wooing Latino voters
Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror
WASHINGTON Democrats looking to win the Latino vote should take their cues from Arizona, which was held up as a âshining exampleâ of how itâs done by the author of an election post-mortem on the Latino vote.
Nuestro PAC said months of advance grassroots work by organizations like LUCHA and Mi Familia Vota paved the way for an increase in Latino voting in Arizona, a historically red state where Democrat Joe Biden eked out a presidential victory by less than 11,000 votes.
Nuestro PACÂ founder Chuck Rocha said the advance work let Arizona avoid the fate of Democrats in other predominantly Latino areas where voters chose former President Donald Trump, such as Floridaâs Miami-Dade County and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.