Article: Mayor notes Tempe's rebound in annual state of city report.

Byline: Garin Groff

Nov. 16--The year 2006 will go down as the time when the Arizona Cardinals and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl officially left Tempe for Glendale.

It would seem a harsh blow to any other community, but Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman begs to differ. The city landed the Insight Bowl, trading corn for silicon. "One kind of chip for another -- and that kind of chip represents our future," Hallman said. The city is in a time of transition, Hallman said during his third annual state of the city speech Thursday. The mayor compared the city's current changes to those Charles Trumbull Hayden made in the 1870s, when the Tempe founder expanded his ...

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