GILBERT – Just three weeks ago, Gilbert’s Mayor Lewis presented his State of Business in Gilbert video presentation at a Gilbert Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Afterward, there were many positive comments made by local business owners about the Town’s focus on helping small businesses grow. Imagine how surprised they were when they read a recent editorial from the Mayor … [More]

The Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) on Tuesday will release findings and recommendations from its Aerospace and Defense Market Intelligence Program, a pre-sequestration analysis of the region’s aerospace and defense companies. Following the announcement, a panel of community leaders and aerospace and defense experts will discuss the region’s strengths and weaknesses, … [More]

Pam Gaber, founder of Gabriel’s Angels, was honored today as Women of Scottsdale’s Woman of the Year for her work with neglected and abused children through the application of pet therapy. In 2000, with the help of her young Weimaraner, Gabriel, she established a nonprofit organization which today includes 156 pet therapy teams serving 115 agencies and reaching 13,000 … [More]

National Bank of Arizona’s (NB|AZ) 2013 Arizona Leadership Forum (ALF), “Great By Choice: The Power of Leadership – Leading Great Organizations and a Greater Arizona” provided more than 700 Valley executives with a rare opportunity to start a conversation focused on unified leadership for the state. Represented in the eight-hour gathering were top executives from Arizona’s … [More]

The Maricopa Community Colleges today announced creation of a Maricopa corporate college, a new entity that will provide customized technical training to local employers. Maricopa Chancellor Rufus Glasper has appointed Dr. Eugene Giovannini to be president of the new organization. Currently, Dr. Giovannini is President of GateWay Community College. Chancellor Glasper announced … [More]

It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air – maybe right there in your workplace. But while it may be impossible to prevent the love bug, small businesses should take some steps to protect themselves from any legal problems that might arise when employees get romantic. Beth Melito, senior counsel for the NFIB Small Business Legal Center, offers employers the following … [More]

AMR Corporation (OTCQB: AAMRQ), the parent company of American Airlines, Inc., and US Airways Group, Inc. (NYSE: LCC) today announced that the boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement under which the companies will combine to create a premier global carrier, which will have an implied combined equity value of approximately … [More]

The Children’s Museum of Phoenix announced today the 2013 recipients of their Kids At Heart Award, honoring an individual(s) and corporation or foundation, for: • Strengthening children’s learning through play; • Helping to make additional and better play possible for Arizona’s children; • Demonstrating a commitment to learning through play; • Making outstanding … [More]

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), one of America’s leading community banks and the nation’s largest home mortgage lender, today announced the company will make donations totaling $1 million shared across six Arizona nonprofits to help further strengthen and stabilize Arizona communities. The local grant recipients were identified in close collaboration with the City of … [More]

The Arizona Bankers Association joined 10 other western state bankers associations along with the American Bankers Association on a brief (the associations’ brief) to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals urging the reversal of a Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (the BAP) decision with far reaching and negative implications for real estate lenders in the western … [More]