Jeff Groscost

Alt-Fuels Crook Keels Over

Age of Consent

Once again, the Legislature wants to require minors to get a parent's permission for an abortion

Worst Fest

Trivial and meretricious bills crowd the Legislature's final days

A Self-Interested Party

Engineer-legislator gets sued over a public works project, then backs a bill that releases him from indemnifying future projects

An Exercise in Utility

Jim Irvin is poised to give the GOP a Corporation Commission majority for the first time in a decade. If that happens, Democratic activist Barbara Sherman and her mentor, Commission chairman Renz Jennings, will both wind up losers.

What's Wrong With This Picture?

State Senator Russell Bowers is best known for his archconservatism, his assault on environmental regulations and . . . his fine art?

Timely Tim

Despite an unremarkable demeanor, public-interest lawyer Tim Hogan has a nose for trouble and a knack with judges

Hull Monitor: Adventures of Big Red

Despite an unremarkable demeanor, public-interest lawyer Tim Hogan has a nose for trouble and a knack with judges

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

Lotto Blotto?

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

Flashes

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

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch . . . lobbyists try to bushwhack buyers of faulty homes

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

Top contributors to these key state officials . . .

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

Red Scarce

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

Master of the House

Jeff Groscost as "brilliant" tactician, schoolyard bully

Daft Drafts

Teenage "Model Legislators" put the real thing to shame

A Rift in the Ranks

Pro-choice lobby may be weakened by a disagreement over regulation of abortion clinics

Flashes

From the week of April 1, 1999

Confessions of a Gay, Right-Wing Mormon

State Representative Steve May is a walking, talking contradiction

Prog Spring

The right advanced at Groscost, sustained some nasty Burns

Culture War Heroes

William Bennett and the right make might at a Scottsdale resort

Flashes

09-07-2000

Letters

Week of October 12th

Hot Links: MSNBC tricked by Internet hoax; Gilbert Spanish-haters want name of school changed; Fence slows migrants at border; Suns squabble with Rockets

Week of October 12th

Amanda Ormond, of Alt-Fuel Fiasco Fame, Featured in Current Arizona Woman Mag

Governor Jane Hull and most Arizona lawmakers in 2000 were responsible for one of the state's grandest screw-ups, the so-called "Alt Fuels Fiasco." But it was Tempe resident Amanda Ormond who got fired over the wasteful subsidy program. The scandal's scapegoat talks about the 2000 ... More >>

Governor Jan Brewer Relocates Fundraiser to Distance Herself From Key Figure of 2000 Alt-Fuels Fiasco

Governor Jan Brewer at her inauguration ceremonyGovernor Jan Brewer insisted on relocating a campaign fundraiser this week to distance herself -- both figuratively and physically -- from a key figure in a 2000 state subsidy scandal. Brewer could have anticipated problems with this o ... More >>

Corporation Commission candidate Sam George is Sam Vagenas with a new name and old tricks

Governor Jan Brewer at her inauguration ceremonyGovernor Jan Brewer insisted on relocating a campaign fundraiser this week to distance herself -- both figuratively and physically -- from a key figure in a 2000 state subsidy scandal. Brewer could have anticipated problems with this o ... More >>

Gas Bag Man

The winged wonder rags on dead Republi-con Jeff Groscost, Tempe's "PG clause," and Dr. Sketchy's anti-art lameness

Personal Foul

Jim Irvin should give up using taxpayers' money as a political football

Dead End

By this fall, the alternative fuels program will be a full-blown bust

Arizonan Siesta

While the public sleeps, the fix is in to turn our state into a power farm for Mexico

Educating Don

Despite repeated ethical lapses, Department of Real Estate exempts supervisor Stapley from minimum education requirements

An Exclusive Interview With the Preserves Arsonist

He is smart. He is professional. He is everything you don't expect.

Lame Time, Last Year

Reeking havoc, Phoenix style, in the 12 months the millennium forgot

Dunce Fever

It's entirely possible that this great country desperately needs a dunderhead just now

2000 Maniacs

The hits just keep on coming at Phoenix City Hall

Speaker Phone

Groscost threats delayed action on alt-fuel debacle

What a Gas!

Consumers are rushing to get in on the state's new bi-fuel rebate program

Fuel's Gold

Consumers clamor for big state bucks under alternative-fuel incentive program

Wash Daze

Now in its first cycle, Arizona's new Clean Elections law is putting bureaucrats and candidates through the wringer

Rights of Spring

Pro-choicers walk, attorney serves up double-talk

Pol Pot Luck

Pro-choicers walk, attorney serves up double-talk

Twisted Ecologic

Governor Hull says it's time for inclusiveness in politics. Environmentalists say she won't give them the time of day.

Policy Wanks

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

Pols Posturing for Promotions

Who's angling for what, and against whom

Sculpt Friction

Modern-art patron envisions 500-acre desert sculpture garden -- in McDowell Mountain Regional Park

Say It Ain't Joe

Modern-art patron envisions 500-acre desert sculpture garden -- in McDowell Mountain Regional Park

Where There's Smoke

There are Friends of Tobacco. And antismoking advocates worry that behind-the-scenes machinations may water down a state campaign to discourage teen smoking.

THE POLLUTION ALL-STARS

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

Arizona's 10 Worst Ideas of the Decade -- And, Yes, It Was Hard to Pick Just 10

Courtesy of Wikipedia​We've been alternately bored/annoyed by the Arizona Republic's series of top-10 lists devoted to summarizing the Aughts. We know it's a good way to fill the paper during a slow news week and all ... but, really, they couldn't come up with anything more interesting than ... More >>