Arizona's Morning News

Back on this day in 1984, Ghost Busters released in theatres. When the film was being written, it was originally meant to star John Belushi. Sadly, Belushi passed away before the film finished.

Democratic political consultant, Stacy Pearson, joined Arizona's Morning News to talk about the hatred of data centers amongst Americans, and why they have such bad PR.

Evan Taylor, Associate Professor of Economics at U of A, joined Arizona's Morning News to talk about the new jobs report released last week. The job market showed resilience, but inflation is rising faster than average wages.

Western Governors University Regional Director Bob Benson joins Arizona’s Morning News for this month’s Community Spotlight. 

APS President, Ted Geisler, joins Arizona’s Morning News to talk about the annual rate increase that the company is asking for. 

Back on this day in 1956, Elvis performed on The Milton Berle Show. It was during this show where Elvis was banned from showing any movement from the waist down on national television.

Western Governor's University Regional Director, Bob Benson, joined Arizona's Morning News for this months community spotlight, focusing on WGU's partnership and support of St. Mary's Food Bank.

APS President Ted Geisler joined Arizona's Morning News to explain why the utlity service is asking for a 14% rate increase for residential customers.

Political analyst Chuck Todd joins Arizona’s Morning News to talk about John Bolton pleading guilty and the U.S. House passing a war powers resolution. 

Back on this day in 1919, the 19th amendment was passed. This amendment allowed women to vote.

Starting goalie for the Phoenix Rising, Patrick Rakovsky, joins Arizona’s Morning News for a “soccer for dummies” segment. 

KTAR Education Reporter, Shira Tanzer, joins Arizona’s Morning News to talk about the Civics Matters event where 280 high school students take the Cardinals team plane to Washington D.C. 

President of Rounds Consulting, Jim Rounds, joins Arizona’s Morning News to talk about a Rounds Consulting Arizona economic update. 

Back on this day in 1976, Bohemian Rhapsody goes gold. The record sold over one million copies, and many consider it the greatest song of all time.

Randy Cervany,  Professor of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU, joined Arizona's Morning News to talk about March temperatures shattering Phoenix records - and our monsoon season outlook.

Arizona Congressman David Schweikert joins Arizona's Morning News to talk about the future of Social Security. The Social Security Trustees project that the retirement trust fund will be exhausted in 2032.

ABC's Jim Ryan joins Arizona’s Morning News to talk about Carnival cruises saying a data breach has compromised millions of its customers’ personal data. It has been a bad, bad year for cruise passengers.

Back on this day in 1935, Babe Ruth retired. Ruth retired after 22 seasons and 10 World Series', making him one of the greatest players to ever step on the diamond.

AZ Chamber of Commerce President, Danny Seiden, joined Arizona's Morning News to talk about the possibility of Arizona adding a 6th "C" - computers - to it's economy. Seiden also touches on Maricopa County's population decline.

Thomas Kloza, Chief Energy Advisor for Gulf Oil, joined Arizona's Morning News to talk about gas prices as the U.S. and Iran suspend the ongoing ceasefire. Kloza says things might not resemble "normal" for a very long time.

Mashable tech editor, Tim Werth, joins Arizona’s Morning News to talk about price increases for electronics as a result of growing AI. 

Mashable tech editor, Tim Werth, joins Arizona’s Morning News to talk about the new Trump phone and how its made.

Tim Werth, tech editor at Mashable, joined Arizona's Morning News to talk about SpaceX stock that will make Elon Musk the first trillionaire, tech items that are seeing price increases due to AI, an iPhone 18 leak, and a review of the Trump phone.

Back on this day in 1974, the Heimlich maneuver was introduced. The Heimlich maneuver was developed by American thoracic surgeon Dr. Henry Heimlich.

Evan Taylor, Associate Professor of Economics at U of A, joined Arizona's Morning News to talk about inflation and how personal savings rates have dropped from 5.5% to 2.6%.