Inside Tucson Business

2 weeks ago | insidetucsonbusiness.com | Jimmy Magahern

Like a real estate version of “Stranger Things,” Tucson’s housing market moves in two dimensions at once. There’s the visible one advertised by realtors, where median home prices are slowly dipping from record highs, inventory is gradually expanding and things are finally starting to stabilize. Then there’s its “upside down” — the alternate dimension underneath that surface calm, where Tucson continues to grapple with a chronic shortage of housing, especially for lower-income residents.

2 weeks ago | insidetucsonbusiness.com | Jimmy Magahern

Miriam White has a complicated relationship with her electronic devices. She’ll get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and her motion-activated smart lights will automatically turn on. Inexplicably, turn off too soon. She’ll shout a voice command to her Alexa virtual assistant, but instead of getting lights, she’ll get loud baroque music blasting on her Amazon Echo smart speakers.

2 weeks ago | insidetucsonbusiness.com | Karen Schaffner

On a recent hot afternoon, Hazel and Lorenzo Hannah sat happily with their mother, Heather Hannah, while they worked on turning their tongues blue. Blame it on the scoop of blue monster ice cream, their favorite. The scene is often repeated for the newly transplanted Hannahs at Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream in the Foothills. “I come here for the coffee ice cream with chocolate chips,” she said. “It’s incredible, but my kids love the blue monster.

2 weeks ago | insidetucsonbusiness.com | Christina Fuoco

Tucson resident Dyan Garris is modest about her success. She earned accolades for her internet program, New Age Notes Radio, making her one of the genre’s foremost authorities. Garris has released 14 albums of her own, with another one on the way. “We feature the best New Age artists in the world,” she said of the show, which began four years ago. “I’m pretty picky about who I have on there.

4 weeks ago | insidetucsonbusiness.com | Christina Fuoco

Carolyn Blair was facing ongoing health issues, often visiting doctors without finding relief. She turned to natural remedies to aid in her recovery — specifically lavender. She discovered this during a trip to Sequim, Washington. “That was the first time I saw a field of lavender,” she said. “I told my husband we should try it. We had an old, abandoned area. So, I bought 3,000 baby plants.” She planted each one by hand on Mother’s Day 2018.