The spring sports season is nearing its completion, and the Corona del Sol Aztecs are poised to bring several state championship banners home to Sammy Duane gymnasium.

A small plane circles over the Arizona State University Polytechnic campus in the far East Valley. Its drone is barely noticeable, nothing like the shrieking jets that ruled this piece of sky when this was Williams Air Force Base. 

Few would be likely to argue that, in the pantheon of great cartoon characters, the Pink Panther occupies as high a seat as, say, Bugs Bunny or Wile E. Coyote, or even Bullwinkle. The Panther is not a complex or detailed personality, and his adventures are short on texture. 

Three or four times a week, I drive down Arizona Avenue on my way to and from the Chandler airport. About six months ago, I finally noticed Tina’s Ethiopian Cafe, adjacent to El Coyote Bar on Arizona Avenue just north of Chandler Boulevard.

No more surprises, please. That’s the gist of a Chandler proposal to work more closely with Salt River Project on the utility’s plans for expansion throughout the city.

Kay Cosner spends her workdays at Marcos de Niza High School, surrounded by hundreds of young men and women, trying to reach out to the students’ families to make sure that no parent in the Tempe Union High School District is left behind.

Forget surfing the Internet for hours on end. This once-popular job search strategy, despite all the hype, still hasn’t replaced the time-tested concept of networking.