[Buckeye Native 001]

If you don't live in Phoenix (or The Valley) you might as well not be an Arizonan, at least according to how the state legislature doles out funds and support. Sure, people visit the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam (which is partly in Nevada) but working in municipal government in a city/county two and a half hours north of Phoenix, I often get the sense that we're merely props. Rightly or wrongly, this state lives and dies by Phoenix. Tucson is an afterthought (some people like that) and there's a reason why a popular bumper sticker in Flagstaff is/was "Don't PHX FLG"