The college football season has begun throughout the country with coaches and players meeting with the media to publicize their teams.

February 25, 2005

An Arizona State University media research program might occupy a piece of the planned ASU Scottsdale Center for New Technology and Innovation, school officials said Thursday, as Mayor Mary Manross lobbied to house it at the former Los Arcos Mall site.

Abigail Gerber, 11, of Mesa's Hale Elementary School, has been selected as a Scholastic News Kid Reporter in the Valley.

There seems to be some selective outrage as reflected in popular news. While the media obsession with publicity mongering Jackson-Sharpton’s kangaroo court of mob opinion drones on ad nauseum, some other items seem to miss the editors’ notice:

HOUSTON - Jerry Izenberg knows about the Super Bowl.

NEW YORK - Tommy Tuberville followed the most difficult season of his coaching career with the best.

Deciding not to fight, two Republicans nominated to serve on the Independent Redistricting Commission have pulled their names from consideration.

The speaker of the state House and a group that promotes conservative pro-family views claims an applicant for the Independent Redistricting Commission was disqualified because of his Christian beliefs.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson faced prospective jurors in his child-molestation trial Monday after being greeted by a crowd of fans shouting encouragement and pressing against fences to see the pop star.

Gov. Jan Brewer is resigned to not being able to choose whoever she wants to be Arizona's next Supreme Court justice. And she doesn't like it.

Retha Hill, a professor at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, was awarded a McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs grant to create a mobile application that enables users to learn about black history from their smart phones. Hill's project was one of four winners selected from 576 entries to receive $12,000 each from J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. The competition is funded by the McCormick Foundation. Two weeks ago, Hill, director of the New Media Innovation Lab at ASU, won a $90,000 Knight News Challenge grant from the Knight Foundation to develop a separate mobile application. That project was the third Knight News Challenge grant associated with the Cronkite School.

LOS ANGELES - What a difference a standout quarterback makes.

February 7, 2005

So I woke up early on Labor Day, and wandered outside my house to grab the morning paper. And I’ve been thinking about that moment ever since.

Jodi Arias' MySpace page seems frozen in time. There are still pictures of her and one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, scattered throughout the page. The pictures are from happier times, documenting their travels together and their intense, even obsessive relationship lasting five months in 2006 and 2007.

Three area youths have made a big splash with their selection to the USA Water Polo national team training squad for youths born in 1991-92.

One of two Republicans running for state attorney general wants to let the governor choose pretty much whoever she wants to sit on the state's high court and courts of appeals.

LOS ANGELES - What a difference a standout quarterback makes.

On the way home, I listened to the radio report of the interaction between President Obama and Gov. Brewer. I also heard an on-air interview with Gov. Brewer.

College is supposed to be about learning new things, so it makes sense that ASU Art Museum’s 2008-09 schedule has a theme of “emerging artists and emergent media.” Announced July 15, the slate includes more than a dozen new exhibitions.

The college football season has begun throughout the country with coaches and players meeting with the media to publicize their teams.

Would you take media advice from a former governor who was sued by his creditors, had to declare bankruptcy, was ousted from office after a criminal conviction - and claims to have actually seen a UFO?

If Gov. Jan Brewer gets to name another Supreme Court judge before she leaves office, she's going to have more choices -- if the law is not overturned.