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1992 Stories by Michael Kiefer

• THE TRUCK STOPS HERE

  published December 16, 1992

  "This is how the other half lives," Billy Rivera says as he wheels his garbage truck through a neighborhood nestled between Tatum Boulevard and... More >>

• HARD TIME FOR A MONKEYWRENCHERFOR ECO-SABOTEUR MARK DAVIS, IT'S RETURN TO "ALICE'S RESTAURANT"

  published December 9, 1992

  When monkeywrencher Mark Davis pleaded guilty to malicious destruction of property in last year's nationally publicized Earth First! trial, U.S.... More >>

• CLIFF NOTES RESCUERS ENCOUNTER SOME LAME SUBJECTS

  published November 25, 1992

  Sunday, November 15, at 9 a.m., a damsel in distress sat on a trail-side rock three-quarters of the way up Camelback Mountain. She was 29, but... More >>

• NO PANACEA CALIFORNIA CASE WON'T GUARANTEE GAY ARIZONAN'S AIR FORCE REINSTATEMENT

  published November 18, 1992

  Tom Paniccia came into the New Times Building dressed in a black suit, his shoes still buffed to a military sheen--the habit of 11 years in the... More >>

• THE PRODIGAL SONWHEN YOU'RE CHAIRMAN OF GAME AND FISH AND YOUR FAMILY IS IN THE TIMBER BUSINESS THAT'S HOW YOU FEEL

  published November 11, 1992

  Klondyke, Arizona, is little more than a dot on the map west of Safford, a general store on a dirt road that passes a few hundred yards from the... More >>

• GIVE ME THAT OLD-TIME CONSTITUTION

  published November 4, 1992

  On a hot July morning in Camp Verde, Ed Phillips, state senator and TV weatherman, briefs the Arizona Federation of Republican Women on the year's... More >>

• THE RUNNING MANPAUL JOHNSON'S POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS ONLY BEGIN IN PHOENIX

  published September 23, 1992

  Three days a week at 5:30 in the morning, with the sun not yet up, Mayor Paul Johnson laces up his Asics Gel running shoes for a ten-mile run. He... More >>

• OUT OF THE AIR FORCE CLOSETHOW A MODEL SERGEANT CAME TO ADMIT HIS HOMOSEXUALITY ON NATIONAL TV

  published August 12, 1992

  On Thursday, July 23, Air Force Staff Sergeant Tom Paniccia, 28, sat nervously on the set of ABC-TV's Good Morning America, resolutely blinking at... More >>

• TREES FALL, CHIPS FLYHOW MUCH WOOD DID THE WOOD COMPANY CUT ON THE NORTH KAIBAB?

  published August 5, 1992

  "How does it feel to have a target on your back?" That's what A. Milton "Mickey" Whiting, chairman of Kaibab Industries, asked an Arizona Game and... More >>

• MINE SHAFTEDTHE FOLKS IN MORRISTOWN MAY BE GETTING A NOT-SO-GRAND CANYON

  published July 22, 1992

  All that remains of the mining town of Seymour is a dilapidated, one-room stone house and a turn-of-the-century millstone used to grind ore.... More >>

• MINE SHAFTED

  published July 22, 1992

  Friday evening at the base of Squaw Peak, cars jockey for parking places right at the trail head so their owners won't have far to walk to their... More >>

• A STINK OVER SEPTIC TANKSNOBODY WANTS TO TAKE YOUR CRAP

  published July 15, 1992

  Dan Huey's got the chiseled features of a frontiersman and the stomach to do a job nobody wants. He pumps your septic tank when it overflows,... More >>

• A QUESTION OF CLASSWHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE----INSIDE THE ASU COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT

  published June 17, 1992

  Alan Goldman, by many accounts, was an inspiring classroom teacher who attracted students to the communications department at Arizona State... More >>

• WHOSE WOODS ARE THESE?

  published June 10, 1992

  KIERAN SUCKLING didn't want to meet at the Sundowner Lounge in Alpine, a logging village near the New Mexico border, 8,500 feet up in the... More >>

• FARMING'S BARREN LEGACY

  published June 3, 1992

  DR. LAURA JACKSON'S Toyota pickup barrels down Route 87 south of Casa Grande. The young scientist, a sturdy Midwesterner with a thick braid... More >>

• A LIFE AMONG THE DEAD

  published May 27, 1992

  TWO DAYS BEFORE his retirement as Maricopa County medical examiner, Dr. Heinz Karnitschnig swings open one of two silver vaults near the back... More >>

• A LIFE AMONG THE DEAD

  published May 27, 1992

  Portia Erickson, the assistant county manager who oversees the ME's Office, notes that the economy is picking up and there may be funds available... More >>

• TOM SWIFT AND HIS FLYING CARAERO SMITH GREG GLEBE LITERALLY FLIES THE COUPE

  published April 22, 1992

  GREG GLEBE'S airplane looks more like a dune buggy than an aircraft, a three-wheeled erector set of neon-green pipe, six feet tall and ten... More >>

• TOM SWIFT AND HIS FLYING CARAERO SMITH GREG GLEBE LITERALLY FLIES THE COUPE

  published April 22, 1992

  The second psychological hurdle is landing, a phenomenon called ground fright." Up high, the plane seems to move smoothly and slowly, but as... More >>

• DOWN THE DRAIN ARE WE HAVING A CRISIS YET?

  published April 22, 1992

  Dewitt Weddle works 266 acres of cotton southeast of Phoenix in Eloy, just three-quarters of a mile from the plot his father and grandfather... More >>

• A HOUSE DIVIDENDIN SOUTH PHOENIX, A PRIEST AND HIS PARISHIONERS LET IT FLY

  published April 15, 1992

  Last June, Father Gerald Yeager of Saint Edward's Catholic Church at 44th Street and Southern canceled the once-a-month Mass he gave in... More >>