BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

Current Events
--Who will be Arizona's next governor?
--Election results trickling in days after the election
--Swifties rejoice: Taylor Swift adds Glendale as destination on new tour

s'MACdown
--Donald Trump is willing to burn it all down

Last Word
--Don't buy an owl at a gas station in the middle of the night

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BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2020 & 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

Current Events
--Glendale Glitters is now Murphy Park Lights
--Phoenix has a new Chief of Police
--Lights in the night sky over the Valley
--Colorado River water and shrinking reservoirs in the Southwest
--America appears to be winning the war in cancer

s'MACdown
--Valley pediatrician Bryce Olsen arrested for soliciting sex with child

Last Word
--Massachusetts bans disposal of mattresses and other textiles 

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BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2020 & 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

Current Events
--Man running for office caught masturbating in Surprise parking lot
--New mega resort going up in Glendale
--Ruben Giago wants to tax agricultural exports that are water intensive
--ASU gets death threats over Katie Hobbs interview on PBS

s'MACdown
--Doug Ducey fails to address teacher shortage

Last Word
--Baptist minister steals $900K

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BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2020 & 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

Current Events
--Raiders' Devante Adams assaults photographer
--Lori Vallow Daybell's trial suspended pending competency 
--Glendale ordinance aimed at panhandlers
--Hobbs declines to debate Lake in Arizona gubernatorial race 

s'MACdown
--Alex Jones ordered to pay damages to Sandy Hook families

Last Word
--Man armed with finger gun robs bank and gets $120

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BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2020 & 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

Current Events
--Hurricane Ian slams Florida--is the coverage "weather porn"?
--Biden still trying to protect Dreamers
--Queen Creek Police now carry sensory tool kits
--Abortion debate now looks to abortion-friendly states who protect patients from out-of-state subpoenas 
--CDC says Grand Canyon's waters potentially contain Norovirus after outbreak over summer

s'MACdown
--Hurricane Ian proves deadly

Last Word
--Adult Happy Meals are about to be a thing

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BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2020 & 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

Current Events
--Trump charged with fraud by NY attorney general, calling it the "Art of the Steal"
--Phoenix man faces kidnapping and murder charges
--Record number of migrants arriving in Yuma - 300k far in 2022
--Surprise authorities arrest 21 for human trafficking

s'MACdown
--Attack of train engineer in Minnesota

Last Word
--General store in Arizona ghost town is for sale

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BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2020 & 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

Current Events
--Trump had documents outlining other countries' nuclear capabilities
--Cave Creek hiker dies after group gets lost and runs out of water
--Mesa woman holds 50th birthday party for husband calling it a pre-funeral
--Arizona cracking down on personalized license plates

s'MACdown
--Steve Bannon faces indictment in state court

Last Word
--Austin airport loses power for 3 hours

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BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2020 & 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

Current Events
--Arizonans owe $70 million in past-due residential utility bills
--DES asking 31,000 Arizonans to pay back non-fraud unemployment overpayments
--Border Patrol seizes $4.3 million in fentanyl pills
--Phoenix Police increasingly seeing "Skittles" - rainbow fentanyl pills
--Country music star Luke Bell found dead in Tucson

s'MACdown
--Dolly Parton launches new doggy clothing line

Last Word
--TikTok exercise fanatic gets stuck in inversion table and posts video online

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BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2020 & 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

Current Events
--Is this it for Donald Trump?
--Faux political signs popping up across Phoenix
--New temporary home of the Coyotes to be named Mullett Arena
--Anheuser-Busch being sued for false advertising for Ritas beer
--No jail time for double-dipping Phoenix police officer

s'Macdown
--Stuff used to be free

Last Word
--Missing woman survives on tap water for 4 days, found trapped in her own bathroom 

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BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2020 & 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll

Current Events
--Thousands without power after monsoon storms
--Police arrest 3 parents after El Mirage school on lockdown
--Arizona using shipping containers to build on border wall following inaction by Feds
--FBI executes unprecedented raid on Trump for missing classified documents

s'MACdown
--President Biden and the Inflation Reduction Act

Last Word
--Dodging porta potties on the highway

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BEST PODCAST in Phoenix Magazine's 2020 & 2022 Best of the Valley Readers' Poll