Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman has been elected chairman of the Maricopa Association of Governments, the Valley's regional planning agency. As chairman, Hallman's duties include heading a finance committee, working on its budget and contract selections. Hallman has served on MAG's regional council since 2004 and also is a member of its economic development committee.

Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman is minutes away from throwing out the first baseball at a spring training game when longtime Councilman Ben Arredondo suspects something is seriously amiss with the city's top elected official.Arredondo reminds the mayor that it's 3 p.m. on a warm day. He stares in disbelief when he spots what Hallman is about to sip.

Hugh Hallman got a reputation as a rabble-rouser in his four years as a Tempe city councilman.

Tempe officials have been struggling for the past week to limit damage to the reputation of the city and its police department after Tribune writer Nick Martin profiled a November segment of a cable TV program that featured a police sergeant who stopped two young black men for littering and asked them to rap for a video camera.

Mayor Hugh Hallman, headmaster at Tempe Preparatory Academies and chairman of the Maricopa Association of Governments, was named "Leader of the Year" during the 2011 Arizona Charter Schools Conference. The academy was rated as one of the top schools in the world by the George W. Bush Presidential Center's "Global Report Card."

March 28, 2005

June 30, 2004

Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman has amassed a war chest of almost $80,000 to wage a campaign against no one.

Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman coasted to a second term Tuesday, as did Mark Mitchell for a third term on the City Council.

Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman rushes through the late morning traffic in his 1991 Volvo sedan. He’s late for a meeting at the Shalimar Country Club where he’s scheduled to speak to the Kiwanis Club of Tempe. Politically, it’s the heart of anti-Hallman country.

Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman rushes through the late morning traffic in his 1991 Volvo sedan. He’s late for a meeting at the Shalimar Country Club where he’s scheduled to speak to the Kiwanis Club of Tempe. Politically, it’s the heart of anti-Hallman country.

If Mayor Hugh Hallman is seeking the national spotlight, perhaps he should leave Tempe more often.

If Mayor Hugh Hallman is seeking the national spotlight, perhaps he should leave Tempe more often.

Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman faces a real public test of his standing with the Republican Party in connection to some pork-barrelling politics that has benefited his city.

Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman is expecting to rake in $1 million dollars for charity in a fundraising effort that can literally be called a marathon.