Arizona's Family News

I only watch Channel 5 and I love their honesty and ability to tell us the truth. I love Stanley in “Caught Misbehaving”. I like the Pay it Forward episodes. I just like all of you for doing your jobs so well. I called once and left a message that the weather person always stands over the eastern side of AZ especially the SE side of AZ. We who live in SE AZ thank you. After that I noticed that they’d stand so that we could see all of AZ. I’m not saying it’s bc of what said but I appreciate and am happy they don’t stand so we can’t see eastern and SE AZ. I love Chris Pickle and all of you for the professionalism you use every day. Everyone is always so well dressed and the women always dress so cute and the men well a suit is a suit but they always look nice. Thank you for being GREAT. We the ppl of AZ benefit greatly from your ability to carry the News in a fair and honest manner. THANK YOU!! Thank you For your attention to detail and letting us the people benefit from your work.

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Arizona is a huge state...with diverse politics and groups of diverse people. Phoenix coverage seems to be full of murders and political strife.A murder trial took place here The murderer took the life of a policeman...I would have thought it would have been followed closely...more than most...Nope... Governor Ducy is trying to increase awareness of developmental delays and followup on the 2004 studies done on the disabled...It took one year to get individual therapy for our downs grandbaby despite calling repeatedly and doctors orders...I cant imagine how the three “reservations” are doing...We need speech therapy to be a priority for children “all over the state”...not just Phoenix... We need a neurologist...If you look at the need...We are a “big military state”...Doug Ducey could petition the “armed forces to provide someone”..or make a “state mandate”... to find specialty services for patients “falling through the cracks”.. even if he has to ask the president to make an executive order for military services to be able to be tapped for an obvious need...We have the finest neurocare in the world in Phoenix but no “ancillary services”... to provide follow up without traveling four hours for care... There is a great deal to Arizona....besides Phoenix.... Just saying...

I’ve tried 2 of the other free apps for local coverage and deleted them within 2 days. Azfamily gives a good overview of what’s going on at home; with both written articles and some video. The layout is concise and easy to follow. National coverage is not as comprehensive, but I get that elsewhere. I wanted an app that let me feel I was at home, and this is it. Sure, there’s some advertising - but I can put up with a 30 second spot promoting our local stellar Musical Instrument Museum.

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Version 44: This layout is crap. The locked portrait mode is horrid. Overall, the update just stinks, but my biggest issue is that I have thick fingers, and keep hitting the damned share button when I'm trying to hit the back button. Please fix this atrocity sooner than later... Version 45: Nothing has changed with my original review. I did notice that the traffic map is utterly useless when we have a weather system in town. I don’t even know why the traffic map is showing weather, but as of right this moment, I can’t see any Phoenix roads through a massive green blob. Way to go, devs... I’m off to find a better news app, as this one isn’t worth the space it uses on my devices. Thanks for ruining a fairly decent app, guys...

When I first saw the photo of the plane that nose dived into the building I identified it as a 1947 Ercoupe to my wife. I remember that back in that day it was advertised as “ The plane that grandma could fly.”, extolling it’s simplicity to fly. When I heard that the occupants lived through this horrific accident I couldn’t help but wonder if the designers of this sweet little plane might not have added “..... and crashed and can walk away.”. Just a little bit of humor there... but not much. Bill Henry