Subject: Jon Altmann

• Accused wife-beater and State Representative Mark DeSimone resigned . . . or did he?

  July 24, 2008

• Michael Nowakowski’s unlikely Phoenix City Council win puts him on Big Money’s radar

  January 10, 2008

• Patriot Games

  The grass has got to be greener someplace else

  October 18, 2007

• Phoenix's Next Councilman: Jon Altmann? Or Jim "Burgundy" Sharpe?

  Maria BaierWhen the Phoenix City Council gathers this afternoon to choose a replacement for outgoing Councilwoman Maria Baier, they'll have a wealth of candidates to choose from: A total of 19 applicants are seeking the job.The frontrunner, we suspect, is Jon C. Altmann. Altmann, a Navy veteran and public safety consultant with ties to the powerful firefighters union, was runner up in the District Three race two years ago. (Baier, who is the sister of Fire Chief Bobby Kahn, ultimately received t

  June 30, 2009

• Bill Gates -- Not That Bill Gates -- Is New Phoenix City Councilman

  This is not your next councilman ... but they do share a name. Governor Jan Brewer may have little-to-no-clout with her fellow Republicans at the Statehouse -- she's had to sue them just to get their budget proposal (and even that didn't work). But Brewer still, apparently, has clout at Phoenix City Hall. Today the City Council voted on a political neophyte to replace Councilwoman Maria Baier, who resigned earlier this month in order to run the State Land Department. The Council's choice, at

  June 30, 2009