Patti Epler

Arizona Guardian Political News Site Bites the Dust

The Arizona Guardian, a local political news site once held up as a possible model for a declining news industry, has gone belly-up. As of today, the Guardian's site is off the air, sounding the death knell that it has been "terminated." The site launched in January of 2009, backed financially by ... More >>

Maricopa County's Brady List Includes Phoenix PD Internal Affairs Commander

Officer Chrisman's on the Brady list, but so is the Phoenix PD's Commander for Internal Affairs Since the indictment of Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman on a second degree murder charge in the slaying of south Phoenix resident Daniel Rodriguez, there's been much speculation about the so ... More >>

Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Reporter Ryan Gabrielson Leaving East Valley Tribune for UC-Berkeley Fellowship

The East Valley Tribune is losing another member of its Pulitzer-prize-winning team: Reporter Ryan Gabrielson (right), the lead writer of the award-winning series on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is heading to UC-Berkeley to work as a journalism fellow.

Laid-Off Workers From East Valley Tribune Hope to Earn Livings With Online News Sites

It's easy to admire the entrepreneurial spirit: Four laid-off East Valley Tribune workers -- three writers and an editor -- have started their own Web-based news site to cover the happenings at the Arizona Legislature.  Their product, The Arizona Guardian, launched today with a ... More >>

East Valley Tribune Layoff List Includes Many Longtime Local Journos

The Fire Inside

The family feud at the Phoenix Fire Department

Spiked

The Spike gets down with MTV and Jello Biafra

Spiked

Taxpayers are footing the bill for a death row inmate's media kit. How much, you ask?

Letters

Letters from the week of March 4, 2004

Letters

Letters from the week of November 20, 2003

Letters

Letters from the week of November 13, 2003

Spiked

The Spike has been moving and shaking with the best of them lately

Spiked

What Would Jesus Do?

Redact Attack

Secrecy at CPS must change before real reform of this broken agency can begin

Spiked

This place is cat show, art show, David Lynch film and Christopher Guest mockumentary

Spiked

The Spike thinks Sammy Compton should give his public defenderanother try

Letters

Letters from the week of June 12, 2003

Patriotic Pang

The Spike just loves a real man in uniform

Jaywalkers, Trash Talkers

Letters from the week of July 18, 2002

Winning Style

New Times writers win big at annual Press Club fete

Ka-ching Kachina

Sizing up the price of the world's tallest kachina.

Why Chromosomes?

The secret economics of genomics

Just Plain Cuckoo

What was the Audubon Society thinking when it named a pro-development Republican to head its new statewide effort?

Crying Whale

Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

Conundrum

At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories abound, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.

Letters

From the week of July 5, 2001

Letters

From the week of 28, 2001

Letters

From the week of June 21, 2001

Letters

From the week of March 8, 2001

Letters

From the week of October 19

Letters

Week of October 12th

Letters

10-05-2000

Flashes

09-28-2000

Letters 04-20-2000

Letters

From the week of January 21, 1999

Letters

The Law of the Land

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

This Just In

What's up with BOMEX?

Letters