A new initiative drive seeks to provide gay Arizonans, denied the right to marry, an alternate option. The proposal filed Tuesday with the Secretary of State’s Office would create “civil partnerships.”

The need to restore the federal-county partnership has never been greater. Maricopa County is not alone in its struggle to cope with shrinking revenues; higher fuel, energy and health care costs; aging infrastructure, and increasing public demand for essential services.

Two former retail development rivals are teaming up to bring luxury stores such as Neiman Marcus and shops selling designer duds to north Scottsdale.And the foes-turned-partners will likely rewrite plans for the massive Paradise Ridge area of northeast Phoenix.

Intel has joined a nonprofit organization on Friday to join technology with educational content after weeks of competing for lower laptop prices.

Yahoo Inc. is greatly expanding its relationship with the newspaper industry, announcing the addition Monday of five new publishing companies to a consortium that works with the Internet company to sell advertising online.

The National Academy of Sports Medicine, a Mesa enterprise that provides certification, research and education for the fitness industry, will help design fitness equipment and programs in a new partnership with Nautilus, the famed producer of weight machines.

June 28, 2004

June 28, 2004

Scottsdale will end 2003 with an important deal made official Tuesday for a partnership between Mayo Clinic, T-Gen and the city for a new biotech research facility.

Derian Spivey and Dillon Janger, students at Mountain Pointe High School in Ahwatukee, spend at least one day a weekend together. And while they normally grab a pizza lunch, last Saturday they played flag football against a group from Marcos de Niza during half-time at the Division I Football State Championships.

State officials are questioning an arrangement in which a private school in Glendale and a Mesa-based public charter-school operator have teamed up to help finance the private school with taxpayer dollars.

PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal judge on Friday placed on hold a state domestic partnership law that was set to take effect Jan. 1, pending a February hearing. The law would give some spousal rights to same-sex couples.

For everything from the concert band to the actors in the drama class, the auditorium is the center and heartbeat of a high school. MUSD’s Governing Board must now decide how big they want that heart to be.

The Downtown Chandler Community Partnership has a new leader. Eileen Brill Wagner was chosen to head the group local government and business leaders, which was formed to boost economic development downtown.

Arizona State University has proposed a partnership with Higley Unified School District that would place a pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade charter school on the ASU Polytechnic campus in Mesa.

Pinal County leaders met Thursday in Apache Junction to rally support for a partnership between businesses and government to plan for rapid growth in the area.

Ask Bill Coore how many golf courses he’s teamed up to build with partner Ben Crenshaw, and he shrugs.

BOSTON - The partnership among IBM Corp., Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. that produced the vaunted Cell microprocessor is being extended for another five years to focus on advancing chip designs at extremely small scales.

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.'s move to make their instant messaging programs work together comes just as the popular communications tool is beginning to expand into such fields as video chatting and Internet telephone functions.