Lisa Diethelm is the Politics editor for the Downtown Devil while she studies at The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in downtown Phoenix. She grew up in California and started her journalism career in high school.
Propositions 207 and 208 both drew praise and criticism during the 2020 election, and have potential for causing change in downtown Phoenix.
Prop 207
Proposition 207 has passed, meaning recreational use of marijuana is legal and that marijuana-related crimes...
This is a year of firsts for me. At the beginning of 2020 I had never been to the Grand Canyon, I had never hiked ‘A’ Mountain, I had never been to a spring training game and...
Weeks after announcing that the Walter Cronkite School Dean Christopher Callahan was moving to the University of the Pacific this summer, Cronkite announced Monday that Associate Dean Mark Lodato was named dean of the S.I. Newhouse School...
ASU announced Friday that Sonya Forte Duhé, who serves as director and professor in the School of Communication and Design at Loyola, will be the new dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication....
Spin announced Friday morning that they have installed Spin Hubs, e-scooter charging stations, in downtown Phoenix.
Phoenix is the first city in the U.S. to install these Spin Hubs in the public right-of-way. In light of approving the...