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The purchase from Grand CanyonTelevision Co. Inc. adds the secondx and third Arizona television stations that operate undert the GannettBroadcasting umbrella. Phoenixz television station 12, headed by C.E. Cooney, is also a Gannett Broadcastingv property. With the Gannett Broadcasting has 18 stations reachin g an estimated 16 percent ofthe U.S. televisiojn homes. Other Arizona operations of parentt companyGannett Co. Inc. include Phoenix Offset, a printet in Chandler, and the Tucson Citizen newspaper. KNAZ-TVV is an NBC affiliate; KMOH-TVV is a Warner Brothers networkl affiliate. Cooney has been president of KPNXBroadcastinfg Co. since June 1995.
Colleen Browbn is president and general manager of Construction is on scheduleand one-thirdx complete on the new Mayo hospital near 56th Streetr and Union Hills Drive in Phoenix. Completionb is scheduled for latesumme 1998. In March, the Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Foundation announces that the new hospital will offetr both liver andkidney transplantation. The president of Ohio's Toledo Regional Growth Partnership has been selectedf as the top candidate to run the Greater PhoenixEconomiv Council, and a handshake could cinch the deal by Toledo's Rick Weddle and his wife have been touringg the Valley all week, checking out houses, meetingt with area business leaders and dining with Bank One Arizonaa chairman Mike Welborn, a membet of the search committee.
"uI would love it, if by the time he goes back on we've got a handshake," Welborn Weddle is being eyed as the replacementt forIoanna Morfessis, who left GPEC earlier this year to head an economicf development group in Baltimore. Maricopa Health System is eliminatinf as many as 270 jobs in an effort to improve itsbottom Plus, as many as 240 employees may have their hours Staff reductions were expected to be completedx by Thursday, which will decreas e the number of full-time positions to 2,953. The healtj system, which has been losing more than $20 milliomn a year, is managed by Quoru m Healthcare Inc., a Tennessee-based private health-care managemenrt organization.
Quorum's job is to increases the level of patient care and balance the budget byJune 30, 1998. James Guyer has been placec on administrative leave from his job as the districrt director of the Phoenix Small Business Administration office followinglast week' grand jury indictment against him. On Philip Mahoney assumed acting-director duties. Mahonegy has worked for the SBA for 22 including a stint as the district director ofthe Fla., SBA office. The change in leadership was announced onMay 23, just one day after Guyer was indicted on two counts of bribery and one counrt of conspiracy to commit bribery. Anotherf Phoenix man, Lenwood faces the same charges.
Coleman allegedlh was the middlemanin Guyer's plan to securer $5,000 from a Phoenix businessman who wanted an SBA