News from the Noteworthy The importance of local news Hello from Arizona and Jim Kevlin A few days ago, the first edition of the Tempe Independent – Volume One, Edition One – showed up in the mailbox. Inside, I learned local Congressman Greg Stanton presented Tempe City Council with a $500,000 check to renovate the Rodeway Inn on Apache Boulevard to accommodate up to 200 of the city’s 380 homeless people. I learned miles-long Warner Boulevard, a major east-west road…