April 19, 2005

They brought folk back to mainstream radio long before The Lumineers and Of Monsters And Men hit it big, with blissful, down-home tunes popping up in jaunty car commercials and adorable father-daughter YouTube covers. This weekend, you can find the 10-piece Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros at the McDowell Mountain Music Festival in Phoenix, where they’ll be rubbing shoulders with the likes of The Shins, Dr. Dog and The Roots.

Arizona Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick is holding a congressional hearing in the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock to discuss housing issues.

CASA GRANDE — Congresswoman Anne Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., said she believes Pinal County is being shortchanged on federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.

Medical technologies giant Cardinal Health, which is based in Ohio but has a large operation in Chandler, said it has acquired Biotech, which operates nuclear pharmacies and other facilities in the Southwest.

The string of winter storms that blasted the Valley in recent weeks is bringing more children into local emergency rooms with respiratory issues.

Kevin and Debbie Kirkpatrick have a suggestion for rush-hour commuters crowding Valley freeways. Fly light planes instead of driving those heavy, four-wheeled vehicles.

Ann Kirkpatrick resigned Tuesday from the Arizona House to run for a congressional seat, joining an increasingly deep field of Democratic candidates vying to succeed embattled Republican incumbent Rep. Rick Renzi in the state’s 1st Congressional District.

PAGE — The U.S. Department of Transportation will release $2 million for initial emergency repairs to a highway in northern Arizona.

They're just 10 years old, but three Ahwatukee Foothills girls already know what it means to help the less fortunate, in this case, homeless animals. Sydney Arthur, Laney Kirkpatrick and Sheridan Romero, all fifth-graders at Kyrene de la Sierra Elementary School, held a bake sale over the weekend to raise money for the Arizona Humane Society.

PHOENIX -- First-term Republican Rep. Paul Gosar says he plans to seek office in Arizona's 4th Congressional District instead of his Flagstaff-based 1st District, setting up a GOP primary fight in the rural district.

Arizona is shaping up to be a key front in the battle for control of the U.S. House.