Email Author Terry Greene

1991 Stories by Terry Greene

• A SCARY FUTUREWORKERS AT DISMANTLED SOUTHWEST SAVINGS FACE A HOLIDAY SEASON ON THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE

  published November 27, 1991

  The Christmas party of 1986 is still a bitter memory for Liz Thornton and her co-workers at Southwest Savings and Loan. It was at that party... More >>

• A FIGHT TOTHE DEATH THIS FAMILY'S FEUD LED TO A SHALLOW GRAVE IN THE DESERT

  published November 20, 1991

  BILLY CLARK SEEMED like the kind of all-American kid every mother secretly hopes for when she rocks her baby to sleep. Athletic, popular... More >>

• A MUSEUM AT THE MERCADO?AILING SYMINGTON PROJECT MAY GET BOOST FROM CITY BOND MONEY

  published October 23, 1991

  What's it gonna be today? A stabbing, maybe? Or a bloody spat between crackheads and hookers in nearby University Park? These... More >>

• BUILT ON A LIETHE GOVERNOR'S BEST DEFENSE JUST CRUMBLED

  published October 16, 1991

  On October 4, Governor Fife Symington's official press secretary lied to New Times and the governor's law firm released a misleading document to... More >>

• THE LOAN WOLF

  published October 9, 1991

  MARK HOLLANDER WAS on top of the world when he reported for his first day of work at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in Washington,... More >>

• CLOSING THE BOOKS

  published September 18, 1991

  As government bureaucracies go, the Arizona State Legislature is usually an open book. You want public records? Just ask. Unless you're a... More >>

• AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

  published August 14, 1991

  Joanna Wray didn't have anything to do one night in October 1987, so she tagged along with a friend to hear a seminar given by Wade Bruce Cook,... More >>

• ANIMAL RITESMESA VET ACCUSED OF ABUSE

  published July 24, 1991

  A Mesa veterinarian is being investigated by the state for alleged incidents of animal abuse, including the mysterious death of a chow... More >>

• GOOD HELP CAN BE HARD TO FINDTHE FRUSTRATIONS OF POVERTY LAW

  published July 3, 1991

  Annette Morris could barely choke back her rage one morning last April when she saw the locked stall in the women's rest room of the... More >>

• TAKEN FOR ANOTHER RIDE

  published June 5, 1991

  If the old wives are right and bad news really does come in threes, then Tom Connelly is due for some good news very soon. In the... More >>

• HAND IN HAND

  published May 29, 1991

  "YOU BOND TO THE TORTOISES YOU FIND." On the edge of Little Shipp Wash in west-central Arizona, the Sonoran Desert is settling in for... More >>

• BITTER MEDICINE

  published May 29, 1991

  It was bad enough that a jury found a partnership of nine East Valley doctors guilty of defrauding a California couple in a catastrophic... More >>

• IN DEFENSE OF HIS MANHOODHE CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT, NOW THAT HE'S ALMOST EMASCULATED HIS NEIGHBOR

  published May 1, 1991

  Kenneth Thompson couldn't help but hear the taunts when he walked down Buckeye Road, past the windowless social clubs with signs that read... More >>

• FIFE WANTS ASU MONEY FOR RENTHE'S CUTTING THE SCHOOL'S BUDGET--EXCEPT FOR THE MERCADO DEAL

  published April 24, 1991

  Back when he was running for governor, real estate developer J. Fife Symington III refused to divulge financial details of his business... More >>

• LITTLE HOUSE OF HORRORSIT ALL STARTED WITH A KNOCK ON THE DOOR

  published April 17, 1991

  This year, there isn't much of a garden around the little house in the quiet northwest Phoenix neighborhood. The lone iris sprouting beneath Judy... More >>

• DRUNK WITH POWER

  published April 3, 1991

  Hugh Ennis likes a good joke. Especially when it has a cop theme. Take the toy police car resting near his window at the Liquor Department, for... More >>

• FREE TO BEAT YOU AND ME

  published March 27, 1991

  The local chapter of Little Criminals Who Luck Out was inadvertently started about four years ago. It works like this: You're a... More >>

• THE STATE OF THE MENTALLY ILLIF YOU WONDER WHO'S REALLY SICK, ASK ELLIE SCHORR

  published March 6, 1991

  Eleanor Schorr's office at the Arizona State Capitol has such a grandmotherly ambiance that a visitor half expects to be served milk and... More >>

• CLASS STRUGGLE

  published February 20, 1991

  It is midafternoon. As a shrill electric bell signals the end of another day of classes, a tall, middle-aged man in a dark blue suit and a... More >>

• THE TOWN TEES OFFCAREFREE HAULS THREE THIRSTY GOLF COURSES TO COURT

  published February 13, 1991

  Dressed in his pale yellow golf sweater and jogging shoes, Bob Anderson, a seventy-year-old retiree from Chicago, fits right in with the... More >>

• RAIDING THE MARYVALE CANCER BUDGET

  published January 30, 1991

  When he talks about why little children might be dying of cancer, Dr. Jonathan Buckley speaks gently, as though he's delivering a speech... More >>

• SATANAND THE SCHOOLGIRL

  published January 23, 1991

  When Donna Davis strolled through the secluded campus of Oak Creek Ranch School near Sedona, her heart was finally at rest. That March... More >>

• BLEAK INHERITANCE

  published January 16, 1991

  If her four grandchildren ever come back from Nebraska, Lynette will be ready. She keeps a blue dirt bike propped against the wall of... More >>

• SHOULD ABUSIVEFAMILIES BE KEPT TOGETHER?

  published January 16, 1991

  For several weeks last spring, angry parents besieged radio talk shows with tearful complaints about their children having been removed from... More >>