The monsoon season has finally arrived in the valley. Rainfall totals exceeding 2"in some communities have been reported,with the typical street flooding and flooding washes.

This is a good time to remind everyone about the "Stupid Motorist Law". This law makes it illegal to pass traffic barriers and cross a flooded wash. Violators [...]

Crescent Crown Distributing has announce that it will build a regional headquarters an distribution facility at the Surprise Pointe commericial park.

Crescent expects to employ 250 people initially,growing to 600 jobs in the near future. The company also has a distribution center in Phoenix,which it will keep open. That facility employs nearly [...]

Surprise is the growth center of the northwest valley,located west of Glendale,Peoria,Sun City and Sun City West.

The town was a small,one-mile square village when it started in 1937. It has since become Arizona’s fastest growing city 4 years out of the last 5. The population is now over 100,000. For [...]

Countrywide Financial,one of the largest mortgage originators reported that They made 45 Billion dollars in mortage loans in June. This is a 4% increase over June of 2006. The company accomplished this in spite of vastly reduced activity in the sub-prime and adjustable rate mortgages.

The company still finds the housing market soft,[...]

As if triple digit heat isn’t enough,in Arizona,July is the start of the monsoon season.

The monsoon season is a change in weather caused by a seasonal change in the wind direction. Here that means the wind direction no longer typically comes from the west,but now from the south.

These [...]