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QC unruffled by states’ water bickering BY MARK MORAN AND SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writers
NEWS................... 10 A Valley economist praises QC’s growth management.
COMMUNITY...... 15 Queen Creek Rotary Club has strong start.
SPORTS................ 22 QC football program hits the road for first time.
COMMUNITY.........................15 BUSINESS...............................16 REAL ESTATE.........................18 OPINION..................................20 SPORTS....................................22 GET OUT..................................23 CLASSIFIEDS.........................25
Sunday, August 28, 2022
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n the West, whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting. Arizona residents felt the reality of that maxim on Aug. 15 as several Western states announced that two months of closed-door negotiations to cut an emergency 12% to 25% from next year’s Colorado River withdrawals had yielded bu-
QC Chamber bemoans work-ready grad shortage
pkus. The Bureau of Reclamation in June demanded the deep cuts to bolster the amount of water in Lakes Powell and Mead, which have been dropping faster than predicted in recent years amid longterm drought and warming climate. About a third of Arizona’s annual water supplies come from those reservoirs. There was hope that the states, faced with the increasingly realistic threat of
dead pool conditions on the Colorado and loss of hydropower production, would come together and deliver a deal. But those hopes were dashed two weeks ago as states started to point fingers when the deadline passed. Arizona’s delegation of negotiators said in a statement that “Arizona and Nevada put forward an aggressive proposal that
Running steady
see WATER page 3
BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer
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ust a stone’s throw from a 223,000-square-foot charter high school designed to equip kids for vocational technical careers, the Queen Creek Chamber of Commerce last week brought together 140 business and higher education to find ways to address the gap between high school graduates and what employers say are unqualified workers. “I don’t have those answers,” said Queen Creek Chamber of Commerce President Chris Clarke. “So, let’s bring in the people
see GRADS page 6
As the owner of the Queen Creek Running Company, Logan Brooks not only gets to work in his passion. He also has found a measure of peace from a horrible childhood accident that almost killed him. Read his inspirational story on page 16. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)
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