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The fair is organized by Maricopa County Fair, Inc, a private non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that receives no tax revenue or funding from Maricopa County. The members of the organization are forty-five elected commissioners and two ex officio members. The Board of Directors is composed of nineteen volunteer members. [3]
The Fair typically has around 75 amusement rides, 110 food booths, and 300 commercial sales booths. The Arizona State Fair is one of the top 5 state fairs by yearly attendance in the country, drawing over a million visitors annually. Fair patrollers include security guards, the Phoenix Police and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
It is currently used yearly to host the Arizona State Fair and the Maricopa County Fair, as well as for other events. The Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, an arena at the fairgrounds, hosted the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association from 1968 to 1992. In 1992, the team moved to what is known today as Footprint Center.
Oct. 31—American country music group Lonestar will headline the 2024 Freeborn County Fair Grandstand entertainment, the fair board announced Tuesday. ... arriving in 2022 and quickly starting ...
If you buy your tickets in advance — either online or in person at one of the walk-up locations — ticket prices for the 2022 N.C. State Fair are: Adults (ages 13 to 64): $10 per ticket
The Arizona State Fair schedules concerts, comedy shows and other events in the Coliseum during the Fair's annual season (which begins each October). For several years, it hosted portions of Arizona's high school basketball championships; those were moved to the newer Gila River Arena (now Desert Diamond Arena ) in 2005 and returned to the ...
The 2024 Maricopa County Board of Supervisors elections were held on November 5, 2024. Primary elections were held on August 6. All five seats of the Maricopa County, Arizona Board of Supervisors will be up for election. The Republican Party currently holds four seats on the board, while the Democratic Party holds one.
Tuesday’s Arizona Supreme Court ruling upholding a 160-year-old, near-total ban on abortion cemented the state's place at the center of politics in 2024. The biggest fights of the 2024 election ...