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Subject: Chris Cummiskey

  • REINVENTING THE BIG WHEEL

    DERAILED BY AZSCAM, DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVE MIKE CRUSA HAS WAGED HIS BEST CAMPAIGN YET---TO SALVAGE HIS OWN CAREER

    March 31, 1993
  • BUSINESS AS USUAL

    STATE LAWMAKERS SOLVED MANY PROBLEMS THIS SESSION. UNFORTUNATELY,MOST OF THE PROBLEMS WERE BIG BUSINESSES'.

    May 18, 1994
  • CASUAL CONFLICTS

    ARIZONA LAWMAKERS OPERATE UNDER A SYSTEM INCAPABLE OF STEMMING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.

    May 18, 1994
  • When Revolution Meets Reality

    Governor Symington says his massive tax cuts have brought prosperity to Arizona. Actually, they are bringing on a fiscal train wreck that could damage the state for decades.

    December 28, 1995
  • Worst Fest

    Trivial and meretricious bills crowd the Legislature's final days

    April 11, 1996
  • Flashes

    April 17, 1997
  • A Fine Mess

    State agencies are reeling in the after-Fife, the ballyhooed state-budget surplus is all but spent, and the government bureaucracy is bigger than ever. Now it's up to Jane Dee Hull to make it all make sense.

    October 9, 1997
  • Reform Fitting but Unlikely

    April 23, 1998
  • 3-D Vision

    September 17, 1998
  • The Work of Art Hamilton

    For years, House minority leader Art Hamilton has used every trick in the book--the House rules book--to influence the Republican majority; now he's running for secretary of state

    October 1, 1998
  • This Just In

    What's up with BOMEX?

    October 22, 1998
  • The Serene Clean Elections Machine

    For all that's at stake, the state's most influential lobbyists and businesses are strangely silent on Proposition 200, which would remove them as the primary financiers of election campaigns

    October 29, 1998
  • The Continuing Adventures of Big Red

    Jane wins--now will she finally dump the Granny Hull act and spring into action?

    November 5, 1998
  • Burns and ALEC

    December 3, 1998
  • Losing Patients

    Legislators want closer scrutiny of BOMEX, but the medical board will seek more secrecy

    December 24, 1998
  • Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch . . . lobbyists try to bushwhack buyers of faulty homes

    January 7, 1999
  • The Law of the Land

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

    January 7, 1999
  • Tax Breaks Thicker Than Thieves ... when industry sidles over for a handout

    January 7, 1999
  • 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.

    January 28, 1999
  • Red Scarce

    Thanks to gubernatorial neglect, Hull's ambitious agenda is going nowhere

    February 11, 1999
  • Confessions of a Gay, Right-Wing Mormon

    State Representative Steve May is a walking, talking contradiction

    April 29, 1999
  • Prog Spring

    The right advanced at Groscost, sustained some nasty Burns

    May 13, 1999
  • Big Red's Back

    While the governor finally asserts herself, the state Democratic party splinters further

    May 20, 1999
  • Relapse in Judgment

    Reorganizing the BOMEX

    June 3, 1999
  • Scrubbed?

    April 20, 2000
  • Flashes

    For the week of 06-22-2000

    June 22, 2000
  • Flashes

    08-24-2000

    August 24, 2000
  • Flashes

    From the week of December 21, 2000

    December 21, 2000
  • Flashes

    From the week of May 3, 2001

    May 3, 2001
  • Heaven Help The Child

    Arizona's child welfare system is perpetually in disarray. Now, Governor Janet Napolitano wants to save the children. But can anyone sort out this political and financial mess?

    February 27, 2003
  • Letters

    Letters from the week of January 16, 2003

    January 16, 2003
  • Shades of Green

    The new governor appears to have double-crossed environmental supporters in choosing some new agency heads.

    December 19, 2002
  • Primary Post-Mortem

    You know it was a weird election if The Spike is actually missing John McCain

    September 19, 2002
  • Welcome to Donnawood

    A west Phoenix neighborhood pays the way for activist Donna Neill to gain control. But who gets stuck with the final bill?

    November 15, 2001
  • Lost Cause

    National advocacy group dumps affiliate over debt

    December 7, 2000
  • Invisible Scourge

    While society frets over the threat of school massacres, a more insidious and lethal rampage mounts on the streets, unacknowledged

    December 30, 1999
  • Policy Wanks

    Arizona political leaders know the answers but can't seem to pass the violence-prevention test

    November 11, 1999
  • Is It Time To Pull The Thug?

    Gang style blasts through popular culture. Can the media be used to fight back?

    November 11, 1999
  • Think Tank Warfare

    Barry Goldwater's widow says the conservative institute that bears his name is twisting his legacy

    May 13, 1999
  • Out with the old

    he 80-somethings at retirement home Desert Crest face eviction. But that's just business, says the home's owner--which happens to be an agency of the Roman Catholic church.

    January 29, 1998
  • 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

    December 4, 1997
  • THE POLLUTION ALL-STARS

    IF YOU'D LIKE TO GIVE INDUSTRY FREE REIN OVER ARIZONA'S NATURAL RESOURCES, YOU'LL LOVE THESE POLITICIANS

    March 2, 1995
  • CONSTITUTIONAL COUP 101

    WOULD-BE ASU STUDENT-GOVRNMENT FRFORMERS SEE DEMOCRACY INACTION

    March 24, 1993
  • MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE LOBBY

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

    June 17, 1992