Gaylan Taylor enjoyed a recent summer evening on the porch of his house in Laveen, watching a monsoon storm.

Ken Kotch, a 35-year-old vice president and tax attorney with Mesa consulting firm Tribeca Partners, says his career hasn’t followed the “L.A. Law prototype,” where an attorney litigates cases and waits for the juries’ verdicts.

Jennifer Scott is on a mission. But even though she is provost and chief academic officer of Grand Canyon University, a private, non-denominational Christian school based in Phoenix, it's not the kind of mission you might guess.

When Stewart Chiropractic & Family Wellness Centre owner Dr. Chad Stewart and his wife, Cara, moved to the Valley from Calgary, Alberta, Canada a year-and-a-half ago, they brought with them aspirations of achieving the American dream.

 

South Phoenix resident William Weiss has announced his candidacy for the Roosevelt District’s Governing Board.

Diana Figueroa, a South Mountain local and recent graduate of the NFL Youth Education Town College Prep Academy is on her way to Arizona State University in the fall, entering college with an academic scholarship and also some financial help from her employer.

Bill Collins is not a stationary man, geographically or professionally. At age 17, with parental permission, he enlisted in the military and went to Vietnam; since then he has traveled the world and lived all over the United States.