Developers hoping to build the Valley’s next big shopping center, condominium tower or office park will have to win over skeptical lenders first.

In what has become an annual American ritual, almost engrained in our national DNA, in late May and early June a huge tide of tykes, teens and 20-somethings flows out of our schools and then in late August and early September flows back in.

Learn to surf — sort of — at Rhodes Aquatic Center in Mesa.

Arizona and Sonora officials are meeting this week in hope of easing the crunch at border ports of entry. Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said a major theme of the two-day conference in Ciudad Obregon will be improving the flow at those crossings “so we get the lines shortened.”

State Treasurer Dean Martin said Monday he wants lawmakers to give him more flexibility over when he has to pay his bills to keep — or at least delay — the state from going in the red and eventually maybe even having to declare bankruptcy.

State Treasurer Dean Martin said today he wants lawmakers to give him more flexibility over when he has to pay his bills to keep — or at least delay — the state from going in the red and eventually maybe even having to declare bankruptcy.

NEW YORK - Cash may be considered king in the corporate world, but just having lots of it doesn’t mean that a company will necessarily reign in investors’ eyes.

Saying she wants to clear up “loose talk,’’ Gov. Janet Napolitano called the news media together Monday to detail what she said is the success of a program targeted at taking the money of human smugglers.

Saying she wants to clear up “loose talk,’’ Gov. Janet Napolitano called the news media together Monday to detail what she said is the success of a program targeted at taking the money of human smugglers.

With the Cash for Clunkers program over, East Valley auto dealers are turning their attention to restocking depleted inventories and obtaining long-awaited reimbursements promised by the federal government.

Following reports that his likely opponents in the Maricopa County attorney’s race are already on track to break campaign contribution records, candidate Gerald Richard said he, too, is hoping to become one of the top fundraisers in county history by June.

NEW YORK - Billions of federal bailout dollars are flooding the financial system, credit markets are loosening and many banks say they are ready to lend. But a crucial piece needed to solve the credit crisis is still missing: borrowers.

And now, the tough work begins.Now that Janet Napolitano is officially headed to Washington, and Jan Brewer has been sworn in as governor, our state must grapple, in earnest, with the financial disaster that Napolitano has left us.

In the 1994 elections, Republicans ended 40 years of Democratic control of the House of Representatives. So in 1995, a vice president of Fannie Mae wrote a letter to Ed Crane, president of the Cato Institute, saying that Fannie Mae intended to give that libertarian, free-market think tank a $100,000 grant.

College football needs a new mattress to sleep on. The old one is lumpy because of all of the money hidden beneath it.

Day Three of Three-Day Series

Some small and medium-sized East Valley businesses facing cash crunches in an economy marred by frozen lending are using a historic but seldom-used escape route called factoring - selling accounts receivable at a discount to gain money quickly.

Arizona leads the nation in unsecured cash loans, truck, RV and trailer rentals and manufacturing of concrete blocks, bricks and trusses, according to U.S. Census Bureau rankings distributed Monday.

States starting to turn the corner on their Great Recession budget woes are taking the cautious approach, socking away millions of dollars in rainy day funds rather than restoring spending for education, health care and social services.

As the East Valley expands into Queen Creek and beyond, homes and businesses are replacing the rustling fields of alfalfa, cotton and corn that for a century were the residents’ primary source of income.

The concept seems like a gold mine for police departments: Cameras catching speeders and red-light runners, so officers don’t have to.

The concept seems like a gold mine for police departments: Cameras catching speeders and red-light runners, so officers don’t have to. But in reality, photo safety programs lose money. At least for Arizona cities.

Behind the terms of Harrah’s Entertainment’s recent agreement to be acquired by two private-equity firms last week were some potentially important signals about where the current buyout boom is going.