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2001 Stories by Jeremy Voas

• House Hold

  published May 24, 2001

  Nothing in Jeff Taylor's bearing suggests he was once a drug addict. He is well-dressed and well-spoken. He has the sinewy body of a state... More >>

• Stir Crazy

  published May 10, 2001

  A van pulls up outside the homeless shelter in downtown Phoenix and disgorges its occupants. They are clad in the jumpsuits of the Arizona... More >>

• Growing Smarmier

  published May 3, 2001

  The street sign on the corner where Cindy Foster lives is handcrafted. It's not crude, but it's definitely not government-issue. To get to her... More >>

• The Spy Who Came Out of the Closet

  published April 12, 2001

  Jeff Ofstedahl has followed the Sino-American "spy plane" crisis with fascination, anxiety and a tinge of nostalgia. The Phoenix man spent more... More >>

• Glad-Hander No More

  published April 5, 2001

  On a good day, David Hans Schmidt is a name-dropper, glad-hander and hobnobber extraordinaire.But this is not a good day. He sits in... More >>

• Auto Erratic

  published March 29, 2001

  SunCor is known within the real estate industry for its integrity and fairness. Our tenants and buyers are treated as partners, and we are... More >>

• Race Abater

  published March 22, 2001

  I find Joseph L. Graves Jr. in his windowless office at Arizona State University West. He's listening to a classic Carlos Santana CD. Shelves... More >>

• Educating Don

  published March 15, 2001

  When Don Stapley comes to a corner, he cuts it. When he sees a string, he pulls it. A Maricopa County supervisor since 1994, Stapley has never... More >>

• The Fag Card

  published March 8, 2001

  On a September evening in 1991, 26-year-old Gregory S. Dickens and his teenage lover, Travis Amaral, drove east from Yuma on Interstate 8 and... More >>

• Numbers Racket

  published March 1, 2001

  Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge The modifier "Quixotic"... More >>

• Eyes on the Reprisal

  published February 22, 2001

  What we have here is a failure to communicate. We have other problems as well -- mistaken identities, innuendo masquerading as gospel, an abusive... More >>

• Falling Czar

  published February 8, 2001

  The news that Rick Romley is a candidate to become the nation's next drug czar is vivid evidence that irony is alive and well.Romley -- the... More >>

• The Story of Us

  published February 1, 2001

  There's a subpoena on my desk.I'm not named in it, but one of my colleagues, James Hibberd, is. He's the journalist who interviewed the... More >>

• High-Speed Chaste

  published January 25, 2001

  Sheriff Joe Arpaio's neuroses are the stuff of legend, the wellspring of his unquenchable thirst for attention. If ego were anorexia, Arpaio would... More >>

• Ad Nauseam

  published January 18, 2001

  I received the following e-mail from an Arizona Republic insider who shall remain nameless:Employees at The Arizona Retarded were... More >>

• Insult to Mortal Injury

  published January 4, 2001

  John Brooking Jardine's death was tragic and grotesque. The 37-year-old epileptic was pronounced dead at Tempe St. Luke's Hospital on March 30,... More >>