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Jimmy's writing can be found regularly in the Arizona Republic Magazines, Phoenix Magazine, TechConnect, Scottsdale Times and other publications. Click on a title to read or download story.

 

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 Recent Articles

MexMansions
Published by Phoenix Magazine, May, 2008
As the Valley's Hispanic population gains affluence, home builders are catering to the trend by placing half-million-dollar homes next to blighted barrios



Operative Fate
Published by Scottsdale Times, May, 2008
Armed with a new ability to see their own medical futures, Valley "previvors" are taking out doomed organs and body parts before they can take out them



The Hunch Bunch
Published by Scottsdale Times, April, 2008
The Valley is home to one of the largest populations of retired FBI agents. And while they still can't spill all the beans, their stories would beat the pants off a CSI script.



Meeting Madness!
Published by TechConnect, April, 2008
As more companies dive into web conferencing, one Valley company hopes to rule the virtual boardroom with a trendy little innovation



In Good Company
Published by AZ Society, February, 2008
Ryan House aims to give families of children with life-limiting conditions the unprecedented: a break



Hothouse Flowers
Published by Phoenix Magazine, February, 2008
Arizona's Biosphere 2 gets new management - and finally, respect - as U of A takes the once doomed dome into the forefront of climate change research



Doomsday's Skeptic
Published by Scottsdale Times, February, 2008
Global-warming skeptic and ASU Professor Robert Balling feels the heat as the greenies become meanies



Super Time!
Published by Arizona Republic Special Features, January, 2008
America's fifth largest city prepares to put on its A-game for Super Bowl XLII



 

   
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  THE VALLEY'S GREENS GIANT  
  Surrounded by upscale Arrowhead homes and retail centers, farmer Bob McClendon has discovered the secret to keeping agriculture alive in the Valley: go organic, and win the praises of the top chefs in town.  
   
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  Talladega, Not!  
  Valley business leaders tap their inner Steve McQueen through vintage auto racing, the thinking man’s NASCAR  
   
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  SPIEL OR NO DEAL  
  Valley TV hopefuls learn the best route to the small screen is a big personality.  
     
 
   
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  Hill Country  
  A new team, a new home and a new baby. Life is going full speed for the Phoenix Suns' Grant Hill, while his "home team" - his wife and daughters - adapt to that other Phoenix sun  
   
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  Village People  
  As progressive homebuyers long for greener and friendlier 'hoods, Arizona's "co housing" communities are catching on. Just don't dare call them "communes.  
   
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  Science Central  
  Beneath the Arizona Science Center’s $25 million renovation plan lies an underground (literally) imagination factory bursting with billion-dollar ideas.  
           
   
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  The Green Extreme  
  Once kooky tree huggers are today’s green gurus. But would you want one for a neighbor?  
   
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  Attack (or not?) of the brain-killing Amoeba  
  Warning: That next cannonball dive in the lake just might kill you. Still, that’s no reason to skip spring break in Lake Havasu . . .  
   
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  Rock stars of Retail  
  Most days, they toil in anonymity. But on hot product launch days, store clerks become the shopper’s superstars — if only for a morning  
           

 

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