Common Cause

Jan Brewer's Arrogant Bull at ALEC's GOP-Corporate Love Fest

I kept waiting for her nose to start sprouting. Because when you tell whoppers like Governor Jan Brewer did at the American Legislative Exchange Council's opening luncheon at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa Wednesday, there really should be some Pinocchio-esque "tell" for those who don't know bet ... More >>

The Dirty Truth about "Clean" Elections

Send in the Clowns

Don't bother, they're here. After a decade of voter-mandated reform, the Arizona Legislature is as out of touch as ever

Letters

From the week of December 21, 2000

Flashes

From the week of December 21, 2000

Lost Cause

National advocacy group dumps affiliate over debt

What's My Line?

Reformers have a once-in-a-decade chance to take redistricting out of the hands of legislators. Can it pass? Will it work?

Rights of Spring

Pro-choicers walk, attorney serves up double-talk

An Endowed Chair

Senator John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped make him a presidential contender. Donations from special interests that appear before his Senate Commerce Committee haven't hurt, either

Building Down

Warehouse-district defenders retrench as two structures come down

Losing Patients

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

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

Saving Private Interests

John McCain says he wants to save Spur Cross Ranch. Has he really gone Green, or is he just scrounging for greenbacks from a Cincinnati fat cat?

Letters

Waiting for McCain

Is the nation's leading proponent of campaign-finance reform turning his back on a homegrown effort?

Flashes

Public Theatre

Public relations firms wrote a script for overcoming opposition to Sumitomo's new silicon-wafer plant. City and state officials learned their lines well.

Phoenix's Freebie for Fife

The city torpedoed an urban development program when it let Symington off the hook for $2.7 million.

Cinema Verite

THE BEST OF FIFE

HE BROUGHT US AN RTC LAWSUIT, A GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION AND A "CAR OF THE PEOPLE." NOT TO MENTION GEORGE LECKIE AND ANNETTE ALVAREZ. OH, WHAT THE HECK, WE'LL MENTION THEM.

BUSINESS AS USUAL

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

CASUAL CONFLICTS

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

CAUSE WITHOUT A REBELPUBLIC INTEREST GROUP'S ARIZONA DIRECTOR IS STEPPING DOWN

THE CAMPAIGN-FINANCE STEEPLECHASEWHEN IT COMES TO RUNNING DOWN VIOLATORS, PROSECUTORS ARE NOT EVEN FOLLOWING THE PAC

GIVE ME THAT OLD-TIME CONSTITUTION

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND INDUSTRY OVER PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS HAS TAKEN ON A RELIGIOUS FERVOR

HORSE CENTS