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Derail Polygamy's Money Train

By John Dougherty April 07, 2005

The Arizona Legislature has the rare opportunity this session to strike a powerful blow to the heart of the fundamentalist Mormon polygamist cult that has dominated life in the isolated communities north of the Grand Canyon for... More >>>

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Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, are almost entirely populated by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Postcard from the edge: A tightly controlled theocracy lies nestled in the landscape of the Arizona-Utah border.

Only public officials endorsed by the fundamentalist
Mormon church can get elected in Colorado City.

School district headquarters in Colorado City is
controlled by polygamy's prophet.

Governor Janet Napolitano should use her influence to get legislation passed to seize the CCUSD.

State schools superintendent Tom Horne must back off his power grab and get a compromise bill passed.

Colorado City school board president F. Lee Bistline
(top) and superintendent Alvin Barlow need to be
removed from power.

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Postcard from the edge: A tightly controlled theocracy lies nestled in the landscape of the Arizona-Utah border.

Postcard from the edge: A tightly controlled theocracy lies nestled in the landscape of the Arizona-Utah border.

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