Email Author Kathleen Stanton

1991 Stories by Kathleen Stanton

• WOOING THE HEART OF PHOENIXTRIBKEN FACES A RUN-OFF WITH A TOUGH OLD BIRD

  published October 23, 1991

  NORTH-CENTRAL PHOENIX is an area of stately trees and solid homes which is often imagined as the heart of the city. Its residents cultivate this... More >>

• HISTORIC PRESERVATION TAKES TO THE SHADOWSWHEN IT COMES TO SAVING PHOENIX'S RAREST BUILDINGS, CITY HALL SENDS THE WORK OUT OF TOWN AND LEAVES THE LOCALS IN THE DARK

  published October 16, 1991

  OF THE 14 multimillion-dollar bond issues approved enthusiastically by Phoenix voters in 1988, the city's $15 million proposal to preserve its... More >>

• A QUESTION OF PROTOCOLWAS THIS MAN DOING PRIVATE BUSINESS ON PUBLIC TIME?

  published October 9, 1991

  When the City of Phoenix put a private consultant in charge of its international-relations program, supporters of then-Mayor Terry Goddard hailed... More >>

• THE ZEROES ADD UP

  published October 2, 1991

  State land officials will continue defending a disputed land-giveaway law despite being slam-dunked by environmentalists in the state... More >>

• THE BALANCE OF POWER

  published September 25, 1991

  IT STARTED unpromisingly enough in a kitchen in central Phoenix in 1986. Pat Coultrap and Mary DeConcini were venting their frustration over the... More >>

• THE POLITICS OF GARBAGENOTHING LIKE A HUGE TRASH HEAP TO SPRUCE UP A RIVERBANK

  published August 28, 1991

  Imagine a garbage dump the size of a small lake. Into its great belly would tumble not only common household waste, but asbestos,... More >>

• IN MO'S FOOTSTEPSTHREE DEMS SPRINT THE QUIET RACE TO FILL UDALL'S SHOES

  published August 7, 1991

  Mo Udall ended more than his own Congressional career when he retired this spring, conceding at long last to the withering disease that has dogged... More >>

• THE JUDGE WHO WENT TO POTREMINISCING ABOUT MARQUARDT WITH THOSE WHO WERE SENTENCED BY HIM

  published July 24, 1991

  Ex-Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Philip Marquardt probably doesn't remember Richard Mendez, but Mendez remembers the judge. And Mendez says... More >>

• WHY SAVE THIS AIRLINE?

  published July 17, 1991

  In late May, only weeks after announcing record losses for a second straight quarter, America West Airlines chairman Ed Beauvais boasted to... More >>

• A FOX IN THE DEQ HENHOUSE?

  published July 10, 1991

  Fife Symington has told Ed Fox, his new environmental chief, that he wants to see "improved performance" in the state Department of... More >>

• THE TOXICS SHUFFLE

  published June 26, 1991

  ENSCO was the stuff of nightmares, a fuming, snorting, glowering demon that would have gorged on toxic waste, expelling its lethal scat... More >>

• THE UNPICKING OF WILCOXHOW DID MARY ROSE NOT GET THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS SEAT?

  published June 19, 1991

  The appointment of Ben Arredondo, a Tempe Republican, to replace Maricopa County supervisor Ed Pastor, a Phoenix Democrat, is perhaps no... More >>

• TO YOUR HEALTH!

  published June 12, 1991

  Richardson Browne runs a little saloon that is midway between homey and swank style-wise and serves food that is healthy without being... More >>

• A NEW POLLUTION CZAR?

  published June 12, 1991

  The leading candidate for Arizona's environmental-quality czar is a career federal regulator who is credited with helping clean up the... More >>

• CURVE TO THE RIGHT

  published June 5, 1991

  The race to replace retiring Maricopa County Supervisor Ed Pastor has taken an unexpected right turn with the emergence of three... More >>

• STILL A BURNING ISSUETWO NEW WASTE INCINERATORS LOOM ON THE HORIZON IN PHOENIX AND BUCKEYE

  published May 29, 1991

  Phoenix residents who still may be intoxicated by the sweet smell of victory over a proposed hazardous-waste incinerator fifty miles to... More >>

• YOU CALL THIS GAMBLING?

  published May 22, 1991

  It is difficult to imagine a contrast greater than the Colorado River as it roars through the Grand Canyon and that same river a hundred... More >>

• FIGHT ON THE PLAYGROUNDA RUCKUS APPROACHES AS POOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS BATTLE FOR FUNDING

  published May 15, 1991

  Every Arizona politician elected this year, from Governor Fife Symington down, claims to support education. And an upcoming public-interest... More >>

• TALKIN' TRASH

  published April 24, 1991

  Phoenix's curbside recycling project is a smash hit--with the public, that is. It may well be the most popular conservation program yet... More >>

• LET'S GET POLLUTED

  published April 17, 1991

  He's so shy he doesn't grant interviews, but these days his rugged Yankee mug is on Phoenix TV more than Lee Iacocca's. Peter Coors, head... More >>

• BATTLE LINES

  published April 10, 1991

  Maybe Gail Simmons and her neighbors in northeast Phoenix wouldn't have been so surprised--and so angry--if her city councilmember, Skip... More >>

• FIFE'S FULL HOUSECAN THE NEW GOVERNOR FIND ROOM FOR ALL THESE EXECUTIVES?

  published March 27, 1991

  As a Republican candidate for governor, Fife Symington often pledged to voters that he would trim state government if elected governor.... More >>

• WHO WILL BLINK? NEIGHBORHOODS OR DEVELOPERS?

  published March 6, 1991

  The competition over who shall rule east Phoenix--its developers or its neighborhoods--is shifting into overdrive as the City Council... More >>

• THE ONG DYNASTYGROWING UP CHINESE-AMERICAN

  published February 13, 1991

  Among the stubby commercial buildings that surged northward along 16th Street when Phoenix started booming after World War II, there is one... More >>

• THE PRICE OF POWER

  published February 6, 1991

  Don Moon is not an easy man to intimidate. Physically, he is only slightly smaller than a grizzly bear. Within state political circles,... More >>