Carl Hayden

Bill Tonnesen, Contentious Tempe Developer, Aims for Immortality

How the Valley's Legendary Restaurants Keep Up With the Times

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

Undocumented Youth Blocked from Entering the U.S. Workforce Are Starting Their Own Businesses to Survive

Distinguished Graduating Senior in Mechanical Engineering at ASU an Undocumented Student, Angelica Hernandez

Griselda HernandezAngelica Hernandez: An American success story.​College valedictorians tend to have job offers and paid internships lined up long before graduation. But not Angelica Hernandez, the Distinguished Graduating Senior in Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University's Ira A. ... More >>

Carl Hayden High School Students Featured in New CNN Documentary; Sneak Peak Wednesday at Cronkite School of Journalism

CNN Preview Wednesday evening at the Cronkite School. ​CNN is profiling a Valley high school as part of its Education in America series Sunday at 5 p.m. The Cronkite School of Journalism is hosting a special screening tomorrow at 7 p.m. downtown. The program focuses on the experience ... More >>

Maricopa Community College Board Members Confronted By Upset Students, Educators On Tuition Hike

Celso MirelesLaurita Moore, an educator and an activist, giving the board hell.​The first person to stand up and address the board at yesterday evening's Maricopa Community College Board meeting wanted to inform them about the Model UN team's successes at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. T ... More >>

Carl Hayden High School Students, Teachers March to Capitol After Class to Protest for Education Opportunities

Gregory PrattPolice officers keep watch as the protest begins.​An estimated crowd of two hundred students marched from Carl Hayden High School on 35th Avenue and Roosevelt Street to the State Capitol this afternoon, protesting Russell Pearce's SB 1160 and the continuing lack of opportunity for und ... More >>

Sewage Leaks on Surgical Patients at Veterans Affairs Hospital Began in 2009; Problem Possibly Fixed Last Summer

​The problem of sewer water leaking on surgical patients at the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix began as early as April of 2009, a newly obtained report shows.   Until we received the report today, we'd been under the impression that two incidents of water leaking into the ... More >>

VA Hospital Confirms Water Leak on Surgery Patient, but Blacks Out "Quality Assurance" Documents

​ The Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix has finally confirmed what an anonymous source told us back in October: Backed-up toilet water really did drip into the open surgical wound of a veteran on an operating table. Still, we're not terribly impressed with the records received from ... More >>

VA Hospital Water Leak Update: Liquid Dripped Into Open Wounds During Surgery, Says Source

​ We're still waiting on public records to shed more light on the disturbing news that backed-up toilet water dripped from the ceilings as surgeries took place at the Phoenix VA hospital. (See our original piece from last week, reported nowhere else, in which officials at the hospital admitted ... More >>

Toilet Water Dripping in Surgery Rooms at VA Medical Center Prompted Inspections; Other Problems Alleged in Letter

Image: www.phoenix.va.gov​ Backed-up toilet water on the fifth floor of the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix dripped into rooms where surgery was occurring this summer -- twice.The dirty secret was revealed in an anonymous letter we received yesterday that outlined less-than-admirab ... More >>

Senator Robert Byrd Surpasses Arizona's Carl Hayden as Longest Serving Federal Legislator

www.azfop5.com Former Maricopa County Sheriff and Long-time Arizona Congressman Carl Hayden​The old boys club just got a little older.Today, West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd surpassed former Arizona Congressman Carl Hayden as the longest serving congressman in history.Hayden served the sta ... More >>

The Carl Hayden High Falcons — Who Endured the Longest Losing Streak in the Nation — Win Again

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 5, 2009

Legendary High School Football Coach Jesse Parker Honored at Mesa Get-Together

We spent an abundance of time last week around the local high school football scene. First, of course, was the publication of "Friday Night Frights" (still on the newstands for a few more days, and available here for a lot longer than that), about the trials and tribulations of  ... More >>

Friday Night Frights: Carl Hayden High Football Players Have More to Worry About Than Winning Games

Hot Links: Home Invasions, Sarah Palin, and Oprah Winfrey

Incoming Arizona Board of Regents president Ernest Calderon is proposing a plan that would cut the cost of four-year degrees. The proposal would allow students to attend community college for three years, and then an Arizona university their final year...A Mesa woman reportedly shot two home inv ... More >>

The Whiz Kids of Robotics

Postmodern John McCain: the presidential candidate some Arizonans know — and loathe

No one is saying you should waste water, but in Phoenix it's hard to come up with a reason not to

Goldwater Uncut

You've seen the G-rated HBO documentary on the Arizona legend, but there was so much more to Goldy than that

Stealth Zealot

Pop quiz. Who’s Arizona’s other U.S. senator? Here’s a clue: He makes Dubya look like a liberal

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

Risky Business

Two teens are murdered, as violence escalates at West Valley house parties. Some blame party-crew rivalry

The Rancher's Revenge

When environmentalists attacked, rancher Jim Chilton used the best ammunition he could find -- and it came from his enemy

Biker Chicks

I am woman – hear my engine roar

Tearing Down the House

Arizona legislators want to slash state spending. Well, how about some real House cleaning?

The "T" Word

State leaders can't stomach the truth -- Arizonans need to be taxed more, and right away!

Welcome Back Warrior

The government was supposed to take care of mentally disabled Marine combat veteran Brian Callan. It didn't.

Nada Chance

Reforming Arizona's bilingual education system won't be as easy as voters may think

Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss

The nation's largest newspaper chain buys the state's biggest paper -- but will anyone even notice the difference?

Letters 07-06-2000

Of Bias and Guilt

Mill Rut

Monti's La Casa Vieja

Murphy's Law

Year after year, Murphy school district officials watched their students die in a hail of violence. They decided to take matters into their own hands.

Brown Sugar

A high school hoops phenom comes home a pro

Johnson's Waterloo?

Democrat makes a good point, but overplays his hand in questioning Hull's Nevada ties

3-D Vision

History Lessens

Trouble's a-brewin' at the museum north of town. Old-timers don't cotton to newcomers who want to turn the desert historical center into a Western theme park.

Hee-Haw Politics

Clinton won, Fife lost, and now state Dems have high hopes for '98. But they're in for a wild-ass ride

MisJudged

U.S. District Court Judge Carl Muecke ruled on the letter of the law, but his liberal views and tough courtroom style made him the judge that conservatives love to hate

Hayden High School Had a Farm, E-I-E-I-O

The Center for Agribusiness and Equine Science was supposed to help desegregate the Phoenix Union High School District. Now the same lawsuit that created it is shutting it down.

Safari Tales

Forty years ago, the Valley's most exotic resort put Scottsdale on the tourist map

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

Multicultural Stew

Ric Orozco uses lowriders and a controversial take on Hispanic history to excite his art students. The Isaac School District wonders whether he's teaching art, or culture or either.

Come Laud PUHSD

Stop the presses: Here's some rare good news about public schools

CARL HAYDEN WINS! CARL HAYDEN WINS!

LOSING ISN'T EVERYTHING THE FOOTBALL TEAM AT CARL HAYDEN HIGH SCHOOL MAY NOT WIN GAMES, BUT ITS PLAYERS ARE STILL CHAMPIONS

PAST KNIFE REGRESSION