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NEWS.......................... 4 Legislators plot new pay hike move.
BUSINESS.................15 Aqua Tots expands Mesa Headquarters.
SPORTS......................... 18
Scouts get help to go fishin’.
FOOD .............................21 Give dad a treat today.
COMMUNITY...................11 BUSINESS.......................... 15 OPINION............................17 SPORTS .............................18 GETOUT............................20 CLASSIFIED...................... 24
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Study: Falcon Field a soaring economic engine BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
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esa has big plans for Falcon Field, already a powerful economic force as the fifth-busiest general aviation airport in the nation with 300,000 take offs and landings per year. When combined with its international mega-corporation neighbor, The Boeing Co., the
northeast Mesa aviation hot spot generates an estimated $6.8 billion a year, according to an economic impact report included in an updated Falcon Field master plan. “That is an alternative way, a completely legitimate way, to look at the economic impact of the area,’’ said Lee McPheters, dean of Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business, who authored the study. Even without Boeing, Falcon Field’s econom-
Kindergartners execute a pitch-perfect campaign
ic output out distances the other general aviation airports in Maricopa County — including Scottsdale Airpark, McPheters said. It generates an estimated total of $811 million a year in direct benefits, such as salaries paid to employees of companies located at the airport and secondary benefits, such as suppliers of these companies and consumer spend-
see FALCON page 6
BY KAYLA RUTLEDGE Tribune Staff Writer
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efore sliding into summer break, kindergartners at Jacobson Elementary successfully conducted their own campaign for some much-needed improvements to the school. After starting their own campaign during the school year, the Chandler Unified School District granted $40,000 to make their wish for a new jungle gym — or three — come true. Their campaign was the product of project-based learning, in which students and teachers collaborate to find solutions to realworld problems that affect their daily life. “It’s a big undertaking because these kids are only 5, but they’re experts on play so there was really no one better to go to,” said Ja-
see PLAYGROUND page 3
When they were in kindergarten at Jacobson Elementary School in Chandler last school year, Ivy Butler and Donald Bertoldo worked with their classmates to conceptualize what a new play area should look like, using a “thinking map” to rough out a design. (Special to the Tribune)
EV psychiatrist runs afoul of 2 medical boards BY JORDAN HOUSTON Tribune Staff Writer
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he way the medical boards of California and Arizona saw it before suspending him this month, East Valley psychiatrist Dr. James Matthew Crowley Ryan had other things in mind when three different women
came to him for psychiatric care. Investigators for the California Attorney General’s office said: When one woman told the Gilbert resident, then practicing in the San Diego area, that she had had an extramarital affair, he “told her that she should have more affairs” – then had one himself with her.
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When a second woman told him of her history of sexual assault and panic attacks, he replied “Honey, I’ll prescribe whatever you want” – and made repeated efforts to seduce her while writing her prescriptions for powerful anti-anxiety medications.
see PSYCHIATRIST page 5
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