Madeline Ackley

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Madeline is the community editor for Downtown Devil and is a senior studying at the Walter Cronkite School. She is a local freelance journalist who primarily covers politics, policing, immigration and business. In 2019, she won first place in her category in the national SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards for her reporting on deported veterans in Tijuana, Mexico with Cronkite News.

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Business

COVID-19: Your guide to downtown business closures and updates

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Businesses across the state have begun reducing their normal hours or shuttering completely, waiting out the COVID-19 outbreak. This list will be updated and added to as news develops. City services Bus/Metro: City bus and metro systems are currently ...
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Downtown Dining

5 restaurants downtown that aren’t gentrified (yet)

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In a place that’s changing as quickly as downtown Phoenix, it becomes easier to name the places that have remained the same than the ones that have changed. In less than a decade, downtown Phoenix and its...
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News

In downtown Phoenix, scooters are in; dockless bikes are out

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After months of planning, e-scooters will soon be arriving in downtown Phoenix on a trial basis. The pilot program, set to last six months, will see e-scooters deployed between Seventh Avenue and Seventh Street, and from McDowell Road...
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Arts and Entertainment

What’s going on with The Nash?

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The Nash wants you to know: They want to stay on Roosevelt, but they’re keeping their options open. The nationally celebrated jazz venue has been a fixture of Roosevelt Row since 2012, but its lease is set to...
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Education

ASU Watts College’s new One Square Mile Initiative hopes to help Maryvale community

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The Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions is in the planning stages of implementing the One Square Mile Initiative, a program that aims to benefit one of the youngest and most populous communities...
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Community

City Council shoots down motion to research Vision Zero plan

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Phoenix City Council voted down a proposal to begin research on the Vision Zero program, which aims to reduce Phoenix’s record numbers of pedestrian deaths in recent years. Tens of thousands of vehicles pass through Phoenix’s multiple-lane arterial...
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