Bruce Babbitt

The Life of a State: A Timeline of Arizona's History

Grant Woods Advocates Politics That Are Not Personal, Vindictive or Mean, Clearly Forgetting That That's His Style

Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods co-authored a column in the Arizona Republic about the lessons that should be learned in the wake of an assassination attempt of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords:"It has spurred a national teaching moment, a pause in the war of charged vocabulary, and a di ... More >>

Our new columnist, a self-professed "immigrant b-side," welcomes you to Brown Town

Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods co-authored a column in the Arizona Republic about the lessons that should be learned in the wake of an assassination attempt of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords:"It has spurred a national teaching moment, a pause in the war of charged vocabulary, and a di ... More >>

Men Behaving Badly

He-man woman-haters at the Phoenix Country Club? Say it ain't so!

Bonds. Big Bonds.

It's officially a nonprofit, but the company Governor Napolitano picked to handle millions in student loans is making big bucks for one of its original founders

Bonds. Big Bonds.

It's officially a nonprofit, but the company Governor Napolitano picked to handle millions in student loans is making big bucks for one of its original founders

Raising Arizona

Okay, Janet, you won. Now what?

Deal Breaker

Congressman Rick Renzi and the very strange coincidence

Donkey Kong

After looking like political asses in the '90s, Arizona Democrats have the money, moderation and 800-pound gorilla to kick some pachyderm tail

Elephant Slayer

Napolitano deftly played politics this legislative session to fend off all GOP foes

A Chance to Focus Inward

Ugly urban sprawl's the problem, not drought. Metro Phoenix has water to support 10 million souls

The New Racism

Nothing's black and white at Millennium High School

Eyes Wide Shut

From Governor Janet Napolitano down, Arizona authorities have protected polygamous sexual predators with their indifference

Crying Whale

Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

A Dive & Kickin'

Tom is long gone, but Tom's Tavern lives on

Righteous Run

Native Americans protest water loss from mining company

Judge Knot

JP posse sticks to its guns in decades-long battle to clean up it judicial corral

Strictly for the Birds

Governor's budget knife forces state habitat restoration fund onto endangered list

Road Warrior

Ranch owner's feud with feds has been dragging on for 10 years

Range Wars

Tolerance of ranching puts The Nature Conservancy at odds with the environmental community

Flat Chance

In '96, Steve Forbes conquered Arizona. In 2000, he's a bit player.

Daft Drafts

Teenage "Model Legislators" put the real thing to shame

Rose Peddles

People are talking about a young political consultant named Jason Rose. But it's probably not the message he'd like to get across.

The Law of the Land

Lobbyists ride roughshod over the legislative process, going so far as to write the bills that lawmkers pass

Industry Goes to the Well . . . to dilute clean-water regulations

Lobbyists ride roughshod over the legislative process, going so far as to write the bills that lawmkers pass

How Grand Was My Canyon

Glendale scribe dishes the dirt on world's biggest hole

The Bench Warmer and the Straggler

Gubernatorial candidates have been playing the usual political game. One of them lost a long time ago.

3-D Vision

Gubernatorial candidates have been playing the usual political game. One of them lost a long time ago.

Another Maquiladoraville

Gubernatorial candidates have been playing the usual political game. One of them lost a long time ago.

Rattling Cages

Some people golf. Some people fish. Some people collect stamps. Dale Burton spends his free time studying and caring for rattlesnakes.

Flashes

Some people golf. Some people fish. Some people collect stamps. Dale Burton spends his free time studying and caring for rattlesnakes.

Flashes

Some people golf. Some people fish. Some people collect stamps. Dale Burton spends his free time studying and caring for rattlesnakes.

Fife's Myth

Symington's tax cuts had little or nothing to do with Arizona's economic boom, which isn't as robust as it's made out to be

Letters

Symington's tax cuts had little or nothing to do with Arizona's economic boom, which isn't as robust as it's made out to be

A People Betrayed

Recently discovered documents indicate that the lawyer who represented the Hopi Tribe in crucial negotiations with Peabody Western Coal Company was working for the mining company at the same time

Tokin' Resistance

Proposition 200 -- the Drug Medicalization Act -- is causing high anxiety among politicians and lawmen

Locked in Masquerade

The Department of Juvenile Corrections helped create an overcrowding crisis in state juvenile facilities--to the benefit of a private contractor that employs two former state officials

Flashes

The Department of Juvenile Corrections helped create an overcrowding crisis in state juvenile facilities--to the benefit of a private contractor that employs two former state officials

Welfare That Doesn't Work

Governor Symington has spoken of helping needy kids and improving the welfare system. His welfare agency, the Department of Economic Security, is famous for astonishing incompetence and children who die.

Quit Polluting Our Aquifers. Please. Pretty Please.

Republican revolutionaries want environmental regulators who cooperate with business. Those who enforce Arizona's groundwater laws have to cooperate; there are too few of them to do much else.

THE BASEBALL STRIKE: AS BORING AS IT IS STUPID

Republican revolutionaries want environmental regulators who cooperate with business. Those who enforce Arizona's groundwater laws have to cooperate; there are too few of them to do much else.

THE TWO FACES OF ARTBETWEEN THE GODDARD AND JOHNSON ADMINISTRATIONS, PHOENIX'S PUBLIC ART PROGRAM WAS KNOCKED OFF ITS PEDESTAL

Republican revolutionaries want environmental regulators who cooperate with business. Those who enforce Arizona's groundwater laws have to cooperate; there are too few of them to do much else.

MICHAEL KIEFERSTANCES WITH WOLVESFORMER ECO-TERRORIST DAVE FOREMAN UNLEASHES A PLAN TO LET LOBOS LOOSE IN THE WILDERNESS

Republican revolutionaries want environmental regulators who cooperate with business. Those who enforce Arizona's groundwater laws have to cooperate; there are too few of them to do much else.

THE STEALTH CONGRESSMAN

EIGHT-TERM REPRESENTATIVE BOB STUMP STANDS TO BECOME THE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE ARIZONA DELEGATION. SO HOW COME YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM?

ONCE A LAWYER MOVES IN, THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

EIGHT-TERM REPRESENTATIVE BOB STUMP STANDS TO BECOME THE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE ARIZONA DELEGATION. SO HOW COME YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM?

EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY

EIGHT-TERM REPRESENTATIVE BOB STUMP STANDS TO BECOME THE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE ARIZONA DELEGATION. SO HOW COME YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM?

WOULD YOU BYE A USED KLAHR?THE CHOICE FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY IS BETWEEN AN EX-HEAD-SHOP OWNER AND AN EX-CRACK-BAR OVERLORD

EIGHT-TERM REPRESENTATIVE BOB STUMP STANDS TO BECOME THE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE ARIZONA DELEGATION. SO HOW COME YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM?

EDITORS COME AND GO

NEW TIMES HIRES MANAGING EDITOR; BODNEY JOINS LAW FIRM

THE GENERAL'S LAST CAMPAIGN

DESERT STORM WAS ONE THING. BUT BATTLING THE SOLDIERS OF THE ARIZONA NATIONAL GUARD WAS THE WAR OF GENERAL OWENS' CAREER.

MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE LOBBY

"THE DEAL" GOES DOWN. INFLUENCE GETS PEDDLED. IS IT ANY WONDER LAWMAKERS ARE GETTING A LIFE---SOMEPLACE ELSE?