The Buzz

As 2024 campaigns draw to a close, we ask how we can dial back inflammatory rhetoric.

How are all those signs, mailers and commercials getting paid for? We'll start with a breakdown from state and federal finance reports and later see what's going on with the money leftover from Krysten Sinema's last campaign.

This week, we're focusing on a down ballot race that can have serious consequences for Arizonans' bank accounts. Three of the five seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission are up for grabs. The body oversees a variety of duties, but most people know it as the group that sets the rates that utility companies can charge. We look at what the Corporation Commission does, and offer some analysis of...

We speak with both candidates for Arizona's Congressional District 6—incumbent Juan Ciscomani (R) and challenger Kirsten Engel (D)—after this week's debate.

Arizonans will weigh competing ballot initiatives this year that could have a major impact on how the state handles its primary elections. Will Arizona switch to open primaries or codify its current system in the state constitution?

The 2024 general election is less than six weeks away, and The Buzz is heading into Your Vote 2024 coverage. This week, we go beyond the horse race to talk about efforts to ensure the information being given to the public is accurate.

We're diving back into Arizona's rural water issues. We'll speak with Arizona's Attorney General, Kris Mayes, about a letter she sent to the Arizona Department of Water Resources. And we'll head back to the topic of Fondemonte, a Saudi-owned farm in rural Arizona, as we speak to the reporter who broke that story some years back about his work and the new documentary it led to.

This week, we're helping voters prepare for this election season. We'll break down how voters can vet news sources and stories, plus we'll talk about what makes a poll worth paying attention to.

Arizona's relationship with the Arabian peninsula goes back well before Saudi-linked company Fondomonte began buying up agricultural land in the La Paz County desert in order to farm alfalfa that is shipped halfway across the world. It pre-dates the Saudi Kingdom, Arizona statehood and even the US Civil War. This week, we listen in to an episode of Tapped, AZPM's podcast about water in the southwe...

State and federal reports show unemployment has been under 3.5% for the past three months, a feat the state has never before experienced. But, there are positives and negatives for the state when there are so few people in need of work.

From creating 3-d printer filament to construction blocks to build houses, Arizona companies are finding new ways to help residents give plastic another life.

4 days a week in school or 5? We explore why some Arizona schools choose a 4-day school week and how it affects both students and teachers.

From nation building to water infrastructure, The Buzz explores the path towards water equity and one tribe's dream for true sovereignty.

What does President Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race means for a swing state like Arizona? And will Arizona Senator Mark Kelly be Kamala Harris' vice-presidential pick?

We preview the new season of Tapped, AZPM's podcast about water in the southwest.

People go to notable lengths to get as much as they can out of some of the area's limited resources. In the second installment of our three R's series, Reuse, we'll explore ways that Southern Arizona revives what we already have.

We look back 107 years at one of the biggest labor disputes in American history, the Bisbee Deportation, following it back to its start in another mining community hundreds of miles to the north.

We dive into some areas that saw cuts in the state budget. We talk to people who will see those cuts first-hand about how it will affect their work and those they serve. GUESTS: Kris Mayes, (D) Arizona Attorney General, Chelsea McGuire, Assistant Director of External Affairs at WIFA, Beth Lewis, Director of Save our Schools AZ

Environmentalists have rallied around the cause of reducing our reliance on finite and polluting resources for decades, but efforts to cut back have picked up in recent years. We look at some of those efforts to reduce the use of plastic, water and fossil fuels.

As summer temperatures get dangerous, we look at efforts to keep people safe.

Arizona's economy has been booming since the COVID-19 pandemic began to slow. Low unemployment, growing wages and increasing population have persisted for years, but so have less positive indicators like inflation and skyrocketing housing prices. With that backdrop, we headed to the University of Arizona's Eller Economic and Business Research Center's Breakfast With the Economists event to talk wi...

The Buzz looks at what it costs to run a U.S. Senate campaign in Arizona. We also explore the question of how effective those ubiquitous campaign signs are.

We talk with experts in homelessness and housing to talk about Southern Arizona's crisis.

We highlight two efforts aimed at getting people off the streets in southern Arizona.

As the cost to rent or buy a home in Southern Arizona skyrockets, corporate ownership can receive blame.