Arizona Snowbowl is breaking records faster than Bode Miller skiing downhill. On the heels of an exceptionally busy two-week holiday season at the end of last year, the ski resort saw 80,000 visitors in January and another 64,000 in February, setting records for both months, according to General Manager J.R. Murray. “This season, visitation could […]
Read MoreThe bioscience sector, a continually growing part of the economy in northern Arizona, often brings our region national and even international acclaim. It is likely to happen again. One of our local bioscience powerhouses recently released a study that may begin to unravel the mystery around a condition causing paralysis in children. The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) […]
Read MoreAt last week’s ECoNA Advisory Council, dozens of our partners in economic growth heard from NAU Innovations, which is on a quest to increase community partnerships to accelerate commercialization of research being done at the university now and in the future. In fact, said William W. Aylor II, assistant vice president of research and innovation at NAU, […]
Read MoreA recent report on the state of telecommuting shows that it’s continuing to have an outsized impact on the American workforce. According to the 2017 State of Telecommuting Report, regular telecommuting grew 115 percent in the past decade, nearly 10 times faster than the rest of the workforce, as technology made it easier for people to […]
Read MoreQuality Connections is a unique non-profit in Flagstaff that uses a commercial office supply business (QCoffice) to provide its clients with work experience to finance its programs that help individuals with disabilities become independent, productive members of our community. We talked recently with co-founder Armando Bernasconi about the roots of the organization, competing in the […]
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