Hayden Larkin expects to graduate in the Spring 2025 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in communication. Larkin has worked as an intern for the Arizona School Board Association as a social media manager and has written freelance pieces about class inequalities and labor rights during his time at Cronkite.
PHOENIX – Mesa Community Court is collaborating with Mesa Community College to refer some of the city’s homeless population into enrollment. Individuals referred have access to a multitude of amenities to assist on their path of reintegration.
PHOENIX – This election, Arizona voters have been swarmed with a plethora of ballot measures, with 13 state measures on the ballot.
PHOENIX – Act One is helping to provide Title I schools – those that have a high percentage of low-income families – with the ability to connect with the arts, a sector that is severely lacking on their campuses. The organization kicked off its season with a school trip to the Orpheum Theatre to see the Tetra String Quartet on Wednesday.
PHOENIX – Proposition 479 would continue a half-cent sales tax for Maricopa County through 2045. It would produce an estimated $14.9 billion in revenue, with $9 billion of that going to fund transportation. The revenue would help to create 11.9 new miles of light rail and 28.3 miles of bus routes as well as new traditional and high-occupancy vehicle freeway lanes, but opponents say the sales tax is unneeded due to "abysmal failure" of the light-rail system.
PHOENIX – Volunteers and state officials across the political spectrum are attempting to engage citizens to register to vote for the November election. Monday, Oct. 7, is the last day for Arizonans to register.
TEMPE – Bernice King spoke at the Tempe Center for the Arts and urged people to use her father’s strategies of nonviolence to change the minds of others. She discussed the fracturing of movements and urged others to learn Martin Luther King Jr.’s work to mobilize.
PHOENIX – A court battle has raged for more than a decade over prison health care and conditions, and only marginal improvements have been made, according to court monitors. There is a stalemate between the Arizona Department of Corrections Rehabilitation & Reentry, health provider NaphCare and Arizona courts.
PHOENIX – Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. hosted a voter forum at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication to educate young voters on ballot initiatives, registering to vote and how to detect misinformation in the digital age.
