Jesus, she's lucky to be alive! Even just the puny hood struts on a car are dangerous as hell in a fire.

The Phoenix Symphony is suspending its season because management says it has run out of operating cash—not because the musicians went on strike. The initial trigger, according to the board, was years of operating deficits combined with a failure to raise an expected $7 million in donations, creating a risk that it could not meet payroll. The dispute is over how management handled that crisis and whether shutting down was necessary. phoenixnewtimes

What happened first

The shutdown came during negotiations over the musicians’ contract, which expires Oct. 31:

• Sept. 30: Management proposed deep salary cuts, according to musician representative Sarah Pasker.
• Oct. 6: The musicians countered with concessions amounting to just under half the proposed cuts, Pasker said.
• Oct. 15: The board voted unanimously to suspend the season.
• Oct. 20: Musicians arrived expecting another bargaining session but instead learned the season would be suspended. The public announcement came that day. phoenixnewtimes

The announced plan is to stop performances after Nov. 1 and lay off all 66 full-time musicians effective Nov. 2. So, as of today, this is an announced indefinite suspension—not an established permanent dissolution of the orchestra. kjzz

What the original dispute was about

Initially, it was a financial and contract dispute: how much musicians’ compensation should be reduced in response to the symphony’s financial problems. It then became a dispute over transparency and the decision to shut down. Musicians say they knew finances were strained and had offered concessions, but were not told during negotiations that layoffs were being considered. They are demanding financial records and a plan to restore performances. phoenixnewtimes

That distinction matters: the available reporting does not establish that a musicians’ refusal to accept cuts caused the shutdown. Management cites a cash shortage; musicians challenge the process and want the books opened. phoenixnewtimes

The $6.5 million donation controversy came afterward

The large donation now in the news was a subsequent escalation, not the original cause.

A court approved a $6.5 million gift from Glenn and May Tansley’s trust on Oct. 14—one day before the board voted to suspend the season. After the public announcement, the trustee asked the court to reverse approval, alleging that the symphony had failed to disclose its financial condition and impending suspension. Those are allegations, not established findings. byucougarswire.usatoday

The symphony says the gift’s terms require a permanent memorial fund, so its principal could not simply be spent on payroll or operating deficits. It also says it has not received the money. Thus, the existence of that gift does not necessarily contradict the claim that it lacked usable operating cash. azfamily

#tourism
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-plummets-in-national-retirement-destination-rankings-40710983/
"Only three Valley cities made the cut for the top 250 cities to retire in — Surprise, Gilbert and Queen Creek."

https://www.phoenix.gov/newsroom/public-transit-news/service-changes-begin-oct--26.html

Beginning Monday, Oct. 26, riders will see transit service changes across the Valley, including expanded weekday RAPID service, the launch of the PHXLink microtransit pilot in Phoenix and schedule adjustments to several Valley Metro routes.

Phoenix Public Transit will launch PHXLink

Additional routes with schedule adjustments include:

1, 3, 10, 12, 13, 17, 19, 35, 43, 45, 61, 75, 80, 81, 83, 90, 96, 108, 122, 136, 138, 140, 154, 156, 184, 186, 514, 521, 522, 531, 533, 535, 542, 562, 563, 571 , 573, South Mountain West RAPID, SR 51 RAPID, and Valley Metro Rail B Line .

Murder cacti from outer Arizona!

"The National Weather Service’s 1991–2020 Phoenix climate thresholds show the progression clearly: the average last occurrence of 100°F is October 5, 99°F is October 8, 98°F is October 11, 97°F is October 13, 95°F is October 18, and 90°F is October 30. That makes about October 18 onward the point when the odds shift noticeably away from mid-90s-plus heat, although individual years can stay hot much later."
i'm guessing that lower daytime temps(avg or peak) will translate into lower nightly lows. (unless we have already hit some kind of max for heat islan absence nightime cooling)

not tremedously surprising. these locations are kinda sketchy.
not exactly huge headline news, to me.

i dont share your view.
i suppose you are free to say whatever you want.
thats all there is to discuss.

Sorry, let me be a bit more specific. This article is an advertisement for Cosign from its CEO. It's an AI analysis of information provided accessible to an yone with a login to CoStar, and I might add, a poor one. It uses a lot of words to say little. If I were to guess, he paid AZBigMedia to publish it using a small amount of his advertising budget.

I don't care if it's a boring topic. I welcome niche. I don't care if people use AI to speed up their process as long as the result isn't trash. I commented because the article a waste of time. Please don't take this personally, you didn't write it, and maybe you found the topic it covers interesting.

I don't mean to be unkind, but if I see slop, whether human or AI, l will continue to warn others so they don't waste their time. I know the Phoenix community is pretty much dead, but please, no content is better than trash. Please be more selective what you share here.

if i was getting adversarial.. i would say your comment is human-slop.
so what if it is, or if its not? who cares(except for AI-haters).
its quite often, alot better than most humams would write.
if its a boring topic? yeah i agree. but you dont run the show

This article is certainly AI slop.

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No I meant you vs the article.

i can only assume you mean AI. no its not AI . AI would not mess that up.
funny that i could do what alot of people do, which is intentionally leave mistakes to mess up AI scrapers. the thought crossed my mind. but im not really super anti-AI

Was it your mistake?

thank you

$800K houses sitting on $135K lots.

Acrrs

Oh fucking finally they're making commuter busses for the 90% of people who don't have a 9-5

indian school is known to have many accidents. its a known fact.(accordung to data)
idk why.
i dont live there. but i probably wouldnt carelessly cross that street for a variety of obvious&non-obvious reasons.

legally, the drivers aren't obligated to make emergency halt. similar to when people who talk about their stance on wether they would swerve to save a squirrel

same phenomenon for walmart https://duckduckgo.com/?q=walmart+man+charged&iar=news&t=fpas

i have been there twice, relatively recently. moderately intensely crowded. safe but tense. cops on every corner with big special event command center. kinda hard to relax.
i havent personally ever felt unsafe. i have never seen any disputes. and its real hippie.
but since theres nothing to do in phoenix.. everyone flocks there.
phoenix events seem to attract a substantial segment of jackass. plus just forcing people with prior issues to cross paths.
therefore i am not suprised. i expect this.

This is such a load of shit. How about you curtail the for-profit farming that uses 80% of the water in Arizona (60% for export, doesn't even get used in the States) before asking citizens, who use 20% of the water to do anything at all. Oh no, that would be too fucking reasonable and fair.

this story is so over-the-top that it almost sounds fake.
except, that i can still sorta kinda expect it.

points that make it sound extra bizzare:

• dating context
• track down with location data
• "both a handgun fitted with a drum magazine and an assault rifle."

other than that..
sounds more like a typical conflict

also: dating
in phoenix, if a single guy isnt crazy out of his fricken mind.. females kinda see that as a rarity and appreciate that