Varsity Xtra:  The situation and ensuing debate has leaked out nationally, and I found several comments and thoughts from parties involved intriguing, to say the least.

February 19, 2005

September 4, 2004

WASHINGTON - Inflation was firmly under control as the new year began. Consumer prices rose by just 1.9 percent in 2003, while the underlying rate of inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, registered its smallest increase in 43 years.

All the extra effort Seton Catholic made this season to play one more football game means this.

Lessons learned? Let’s find out.

A cargo plane managed to land safely Wednesday after a bird or birds slammed into the plane's windshield.

SHOW LOW - A shooting outside a Wal-Mart in eastern Arizona has left an elderly woman dead and an elderly man critically wounded.

SHOW LOW - The Arizona Department of Public Safety says two people are dead after a head-on wreck on U.S. 60 in Show Low.

Change is hard. At Coolidge High School, change was learning how to lose. At Show Low, it was learning (again) about its leader.

PHOENIX - The Department of Public Safety says a rock slide has closed eastbound U.S. 60 at milepost 291 in the area of Seneca. That's between Globe and Show Low.

WASHINGTON - Janet Jackson's Super Bowl exposure was "a new low for prime-time television," the government's chief broadcast regulator told lawmakers Wednesday.

Neil Kerkhof had 12 strikeouts and went the distance Friday as Seton, the No. 4 seed from the South, pounded Show Low, the No. 1 seed from the East, 14-2 in a first-round 3A state baseball playoff game at Maryvale Sports Complex.

WASHINGTON - Last year was the worst ever for the nation’s major airlines financially, with losses of $11.3 billion.

NEW YORK - Your cell phone company knows you hate it.

Scottsdale on Monday ceremoniously welcomed a new Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, one city officials are counting on to further revitalize the southern portion of the city.

Residents from Mesa neighborhoods near the proposed site of a Lowe’s Home Improvement Center won their first battle against the “big-box” store Thursday as the city’s Planning and Zoning board voted against the proposal.

July 16, 2004

New teachers in Arizona earned less than new teachers anywhere else in the nation except Montana during the 2002-03 school year, according to a national survey released Thursday.