Careful, East Valley. With apologies to Marty McFly, that forming line many think is leading to recovery instead is into an economic time machine that’s once again taking us back to the future.

I’m typing this very quietly. I don’t want my car to know I’m talking to you about it.

Computers? Love them. Use them. And I’ve become a rather prolific author of text messages, taking the opportunity to perfect my grammar and spelling by fighting the urge to abbreviate.

Filmmakers have loved Arizona for decades. And they still do, although they could love it a lot more, to the greater benefit of a state looking for economic engines besides growth and real estate.

I’d like to talk to you today about math and politics.

Anonymous speech is as old as graffiti — and as new as the views about certain Gilbert candidates’ religious beliefs found in a mailer sent by an anonymous group calling itself Concerned Arizona Taxpayers.

Early ballots went into the mail last week for this month’s Arizona primary election. Some of you may have already received them.

Early ballots went into the mail last week for this month’s Arizona primary election. Some of you may have already received them.

Paper or digital?

You can’t really blame local TV weather forecasters for playing up the Arizona monsoon.

Let’s be clear about one thing: Roberta “Bobbi” Smith is innocent. Charges alleging that she unlawfully removed political signs in Gilbert last May have been dropped, according to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.

Unlike many other nations, in this country you can pray without the benefit of someone from the government handing you a script of what to tell God.

In one of his best-known routines, the late comedian George Carlin famously questioned why the day's temperatures are recorded at the local airport - when nobody actually lives there.

In one of his best-known routines, the late comedian George Carlin famously questioned why the day's temperatures are recorded at the local airport - when nobody actually lives there.

In one of his best-known routines, the late comedian George Carlin famously questioned why the day's temperatures are recorded at the local airport - when nobody actually lives there.

Sometime next year, Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic congresswoman from Tucson seriously wounded by gunshot in January, will reveal whether she will run for re-election.

Thanksgiving is this week, but unless you're tidying up the guest room for out-of-town company, you might not know it.

Our state lawmakers are never too busy dealing with economic crises and housing market brouhaha to be able to take the time to approve a new state weapon (the Colt .45), or to tell Arizonans how to elect the people who run their local communities.

It was the hottest ticket in town - only because the Diamondbacks game wasn't until Friday.

With legal arguments in recent days over a proposed Mesa tattoo business, looks like “time, place and manner” is getting more, please pardon the pun, ink in the East Valley.

In yet another sign that there isn't enough money anymore to pay for something, parents of children in Mesa Unified School District high schools who want to participate in extracurricular athletics now are charged a $100-per-sport fee that has come to be known as "pay-for-play."