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NEWS..................... 8 Basketball icon Kobe Bryant's daughter helps christen Mesa court.
BUSINESS............ 20 Mesa native wins big award as top student chef.
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Favorable trends for Duff, 2 board hopefuls Hutchinson, Walden stay Mesa Council incumbent at head of the MPS pack holding big ballot lead BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer
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n the seven-way battle for two seats on the Mesa Public Schools Governing Board, incumbent board member Marcie Hutchinson and Rachel Walden held their leads with 25% and 22%, according to the latest results before the Tribune’s
deadline. Those leads emerged Tuesday ngiht and barely budged over succeeding days. They were followed by Jacob Martinez, 16%; Ed Steele, 14%; J.R. Wright, 9%; Chris Hamlet, 8%; and Ray Deer, 6%. Martinez issued a state
see MPS page 6
BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer
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esa Vice Mayor Jenn Duff jumped to an early lead Election night and appeared unlikely to be lose her grip. The latest tallies form the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office prior to the Tribune’s deadline showed Duff leading chal-
lenger Trista Guzman Glover 57% to 43% in the runoff race for the city council seat representing downtown Mesa. Though she had not declared victory yet, Duff said on her campaign’s social media page last week that “a win looks promising” and thanked her supporters for the “anticipated
see COUNCIL page 6
Mesa flight schools help ease pilot shortage
SPORTS................ 28 Manny Pino driving Mesa High football to new level. COMMUNITY .............................. 17 BUSINESS ................................... 20 OPINION ..................................... 22 SPORTS ...................................... 24 GET OUT ...................................... 27 CLASSIFIED ............................... 32 ZONE 2
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BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer
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utside a nondescript building along Sossaman Drive at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport last month, the sun shined while rain poured from an iron-gray sky inside the cavernous structure. On a powerful flight simulator that cost more than a real airplane, a flight student
see DRUGS page 12
Jacob Ogden goes through his pre-flight checklist in the cockpit of a flight simulator as instructor Thomas Johnson monitors his attempt at the University of North Dakota Aerospace simulator bay at PhoenixMesa Gateway Airport. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)
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