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1999 Stories by Michael Kiefer

• Forest Grump

  published November 25, 1999

  They worship trees, you know. A Minneapolis attorney from a conservative think tank has convinced loggers in northern Minnesota to file suit... More >>

• Is It Time To Pull The Thug?

  published November 11, 1999

  In 1992, the Evanston Human Relations Council in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, filmed a public-service announcement with an anti-gang... More >>

• Stone Blues

  published September 30, 1999

  Sam Lay is a traveling blues museum. He helped blues go electric in the late 1950s and early 1960s, playing drums for Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf,... More >>

• Gang, Bang, You're Dead

  published September 9, 1999

  Edwardo Soto knew his little brother was dead the moment he turned the corner and saw the police gathered by the ambulance. His sister Carolina... More >>

• Reaching Out

  published August 5, 1999

  In 1986, when the city of Phoenix entered into an agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to re-dedicate a 1,365-acre tract of federal land... More >>

• Rivera's Edge

  published June 24, 1999

  When Ed Pastor, as Arizona's ranking (and only) Democratic congressman, was asked to nominate Janet Napolitano's successor as U.S. Attorney... More >>

• Tributary Bypass

  published April 29, 1999

  Fossil Creek, a major tributary of the Verde River, doesn't flow over travertine and river rock, bedrock gorges or deep canyons. It runs... More >>

• A Grave Error

  published April 1, 1999

  In Arizona, every time you stick a shovel in the ground, you run the risk of being an accidental archaeologist. Long before the Spanish explored... More >>

• Bilingual Blues

  published March 18, 1999

  Kids in Maria Jimenez's fourth grade class at Valley View School in South Phoenix sit at tables reading and discussing books in both Spanish and... More >>

• Shadow of a Doubt

  published March 11, 1999

  On February 23, Michael Shoemaker, 20, was sentenced to one year in jail and three years probation for his part in a fatal knife fight at Paradise... More >>

• Drawing the Line

  published February 11, 1999

  "What's in the mountain preserve now?" asked Ruth Hamilton, the octogenarian stalwart of the Phoenix Mountains Preservation Council (PMPC), a... More >>

• Indian Stew

  published February 4, 1999

  The child had apparently been eaten, his skull cracked open ear to ear, his brain scooped out, his bones scattered as trash. All that remains of... More >>