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1997 Stories by Howard Stansfield

• Labor Pains

  published December 11, 1997

  Federal labor officials have charged managers at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center with attempting to illegally prevent employees from... More >>

• History Lessens

  published December 4, 1997

  High noon on a spring day in 1994. The stranger steps through the gates of the Pioneer Arizona Living History Museum, takes one look around and... More >>

• Truck Queue

  published November 20, 1997

  Bear the front door of his northeast Phoenix home, Richard Aiello has screwed a small brass plaque to the stuccoed wall. It reads: NEVER... More >>

• Hired Guns

  published October 23, 1997

  The Circle K store on the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and McDowell is probably one of the more beleaguered outposts in the convenience... More >>

• Revoltin' Development

  published October 9, 1997

  One year after taking over as president of Glendale Community College, Tessa Martinez Pollack is under fire from faculty senate members who... More >>

• The Master Bilkers

  published September 18, 1997

  Los Portones doesn't look that different from all the other beige subdivisions sprouting from the desert of northeast Scottsdale. Lying... More >>

• Code Blues

  published August 14, 1997

  Mention the name "Fritz Tuffli" around the upside-down glass pyramid of Tempe City Hall, and you will likely be greeted with a roll of the eyes,... More >>

• Trainplotting

  published July 3, 1997

  Your leaders want you to trust them so badly you can almost feel their collective hands reaching out to you in gestures of beckoning. Either that... More >>

• Toll Road Kill?

  published June 5, 1997

  Phoenix-based Interwest Management, Inc., the firm hoping to land a $360 million contract to build and operate the South Mountain Toll Road, may... More >>

• Casualty Sex

  published May 29, 1997

  Randy Setzer pads out of the bedroom in his stocking feet, plops down onto a couch, tucks his camouflaged battle-dress uniform into his boots,... More >>

• Crowded Houses

  published May 22, 1997

  Developer wants to build some homes. Neighbors want a say in how development will look. So do city planners, who say developer is... More >>

• What's Wrong With This Picture?

  published May 1, 1997

  Let's say you're an environmentalist--and not just the kind tooling around in some gas guzzler with one of those cute license plates. You're the... More >>

• Russell Mania

  published May 1, 1997

  If you should ever find yourself on the third floor of the Senate building at the state Capitol, take a close look at the bronze bust in the... More >>

• Carr Wrecks

  published April 10, 1997

  Richard Lloyd Carr wants the state to allow his company, Interwest Management, Inc., to build one of Arizona's first toll roads. As... More >>

• Joint Attack

  published March 6, 1997

  Let's say you're a pot smoker. Or a pot dealer. To you, a joint is probably no more odious than a six-pack of beer. If you weren't too busy... More >>

• What's the Mig Deal?

  published February 20, 1997

  Hangar No. 5 can be found at the end of a stucco building just off the runway at the Scottsdale Air Park. The interior of the hangar looks... More >>

• Enslaved by the Bell

  published January 30, 1997

  It is May 1994. A standing-room-only crowd, mostly parents, filters into the auditorium of a library in north Scottsdale. They have come to hear a... More >>

• Persecution Complex

  published January 9, 1997

  Imagine a block of Soviet workers' housing plopped down in central Phoenix, then cloaked in shades of hot pink and aqua. Le Corbusier meets Miami... More >>