Email Author Terry Greene

1992 Stories by Terry Greene

• A YEAR INSIDE THE MOTOROLA MESSSINNERS AND VICTIMS--WARRIORS AND REGULATORS

  published December 30, 1992

  Thirteen months ago, Kathleen Stanton handed me a blue vinyl three-ring notebook. Kathleen, a reporter and co-worker I count as a friend, had... More >>

• MOTOROLA THE STORY SO FAR

  published December 30, 1992

  On May 6, 1992, New Times began a series of investigative reports detailing extensive groundwater pollution linked to Motorola, an $11 billion... More >>

• ASK MY CAT ABOUT COYOTE BREATH

  published December 9, 1992

  I wanted to call in a mountain lion. I was 10 years old, and during the spring and early summer, it seemed that all I'd heard my father and other... More >>

• TAKING DEQ TO THE CLEANERSMINORITIES GET STATE'S EAR, DEMAND "ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE"

  published December 2, 1992

  A 22-year-old Havasupai woman was the first to speak. Carlotta Tilousi fixed her eyes on Ed Fox, director of the Arizona Department of... More >>

• THE ANGUISH OF ALEX HALEY'S WIDOWWITH HER HUSBAND'S LITERARY LEGACY DISPERSED, SHE'S LOCKED IN A BITTER PROBATE BATTLE

  published November 11, 1992

  Celebrities, ambassadors and politicians crowded into the Greenwood Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Jesse Jackson... More >>

• UNANSWERED PRAYERS AND QUESTIONS

  published October 7, 1992

  The gloves came in all sizes. There were white nylon gloves and wrist-to-elbow gauntlets and men's cotton work gloves. For ten years, from... More >>

• MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

  published October 7, 1992

  On May 6, 1992, New Times began a series of investigative reports detailing extensive groundwater pollution linked to Motorola, an $11 billion... More >>

• HOLDING FAST FLORENCE PRISONER IN TENTH WEEK OF HUNGER STRIKE

  published October 7, 1992

  A prisoner described by fellow inmates and others as one of the most influential people at the state prison in Florence has entered his tenth week... More >>

• RICH AGENCY, POOR AGENCYDHS PLAYS HIDE AND SEEK WITH MARYVALE CANCER MONEY

  published September 16, 1992

  Ten years ago, when state health officials first learned that children in Maryvale were dying of leukemia at twice the national rate, they delayed... More >>

• CLOUD OF SUSPICIONWAS KIM ALLEN POISONED BY AN ERRANT CROP DUSTER?

  published August 26, 1992

  As a child, Kim Allen would watch the crop-dusting airplanes buzz low over west Valley cotton fields, leaving clouds of pesticides in their wake.... More >>

• MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

  published August 19, 1992

  Motorola: The Story So Far On May 6, 1992, New Times began a series of investigative reports detailing extensive groundwater pollution linked... More >>

• THE COST OF TOXIC SPILLSHERE'S HOW YOU'LL PAY FOR MOTOROLA'S CONTAMINATION

  published August 19, 1992

  By 1994 there will be a new building at 8600 East Thomas in Scottsdale. Concealed behind the building's adobelike fa‡ade will be ... More >>

• NATIONAL SUPERFUND SHIFT UNVIELED IN PHOENIX

  published August 19, 1992

  Last Wednesday, state Superfund managers from across the nation quietly gathered at Red Lion's La Posada Inn in Scottsdale. The purpose of the... More >>

• DOWNTOWN TOXIC SPILL!

  published August 12, 1992

  Terry Gaskin glanced out the window of a downtown Circle K last Wednesday afternoon and witnessed the best-documented spill in the history of... More >>

• GO FOR BROKE

  published August 5, 1992

  For well over a year, ailing America West Airlines has been scrambling to put together deals with lenders and investors worldwide. The implication... More >>

• MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

  published July 1, 1992

  On May 6, 1992, New Times published an investigative report detailing extensive groundwater pollution linked to Motorola, an $11 billion... More >>

• DISASTER RESPONSE

  published July 1, 1992

  Following one of America's largest groundwater contaminations, the government allowed the polluter, Motorola, to inform the public of... More >>

• LEFT TO OTHERS' DEVICESTHE SAD SAGA OF THE BOY ON THE PLETHYSMOGRAPH

  published July 1, 1992

  When a hospital technician attached a gizmo onto Sam's penis to measure his responses to sexually explicit photographs, it is unlikely that... More >>

• THE GIRL AND THE DISHWASHERA 13-YEAR-OLD'S "RELATIONSHIP" WITH AN ADULT PASSES INSPECTION BY POLICE

  published May 20, 1992

  La Ciudad de los Mojados-the City of the Wetbacks-is what hundreds of illegal immigrants from Mexico call their community of rundown houses... More >>

• MOTOROLA

  published May 6, 1992

  Jeanine herself got cancer in her late 40s. Before she died in 1989, she told her daughter Lisa that she suspected that living near the plant... More >>

• MOTOROLA

  published May 6, 1992

  ¯ Oh, brother. We definitely drank it. There's no doubt," says Lisa McNamara, who lived just four doors down from the Motorola plant. It... More >>

• MOTOROLA

  published May 6, 1992

  DANIEL E. NOBLE was hardly a charismatic patriarch. He was bald and soft-bellied, with a thin, stiff smile. His favorite conversations... More >>

• MOTOROLA

  published May 6, 1992

  This was an estimated annual discharge rate from this facility that could have been ongoing for previous years," the report... More >>

• PROJECT FAT

  published April 22, 1992

  LAST THURSDAY, Governor Fife Symington toured Arizona to tout Project SLIM. Armed with a couple of easels and a few stiff-smiling aides, he... More >>

• ROCKING THE BOATFOUR BLACK WOMEN CHALLENGE WHAT THEY SAY IS RACISM AND SEXISM AT DES

  published February 5, 1992

  When a position opened up in January 1989, she applied. She scored 90 out of 100 on a test to get her old job back. But she was told that now she... More >>