Subject: Skip Rimsza

• CITY COMPLICITYPHOENIX'S CITY STAFF AND COUNCIL DID THEIR SHARE TO KEEP VOTERS FROM HAVING A VOICE IN STADIUM

  September 28, 1995

• Sumitomo Wrestling

  Government officials are crowing about the deal that brought Sumitomo's silicon-wafer factory to northeast Phoenix. But they haven't mentioned that the deal will cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

  December 7, 1995

• Letters

  January 4, 1996

• Tale of the Crypto

  Other Valley cities wonder whether Phoenix's water treatment practices increase the odds for an outbreak of a waterborne disease. It's called Crypto and it can kill.

  January 25, 1996

• Plant Strife

  Foes of the Sumitomo facility continue to dig up inconsistencies in the process

  February 29, 1996

• Letters

  March 14, 1996

• Councilectomy

  November 14, 1996

• Trainplotting

  Transit-plan backers say they see a bus in your future--so how come they've been working on the railroad?

  July 3, 1997

• Letters

  August 28, 1997

• A Capitol Idea

  Phoenix Community Alliance's new plan for the Capitol Mall sends the homeless scrambling while the city looks the other way

  November 5, 1998

• Moral Sex

  City Hall Puritans crack down on sex businesses. Expect the courts to decide if the new laws are constitutional.

  December 31, 1998

• Flashes

  From the week of January 21, 1999

  January 21, 1999

• 2000 Maniacs

  If He Only Had a Brain Next: CPS Case Workers See the Darndest ThingsBut Strangely, There Was No "I WAS GREENFIELD ELEMENTARY'S IDIOT OF THE MONTH" Sticker Urine LuckSoul on IceAscent of a Woman?Lawn OrderCrime in a BottleSo That's What They

  January 6, 2000

• Flashes

  January 6, 2000

• Phoenix City Council Vacancy: Anyone but Sal DiCiccio?

    Now that the Phoenix City Council has signed off on a staggering $270 million in budget cuts, we can turn our attention to the really important stuff -- the imminent vacancy for the District 6 Council seat. Of course we're kidding when we say this is more important than cutting more than 1,000 city jobs, slashing hours at the city's libraries, and closing a bunch of city pools. That's difficult, painful stuff. But it's no exaggeration to say that the announcement from Councilman Greg

  February 4, 2009

• It's Time to Kick Andrew Thomas Off the Stapley Investigation

  February 19, 2009

• Keystone Clowns

  This poop-producin' pelican dive-bombs slapstick sheriff's deputies, ex-mayor Skip Rimsza, and Chase Field's crotchety old baseball enforcers

  June 1, 2006

• Through the Cracks

  March 23, 2006

• Snafu 2000

  Phoenix officials told volunteers planning an expensive millennial downtown bash to think big. It seems as though nobody was thinking at all.

  December 2, 1999

• Big Scam Theory

  Downtown Phoenix has always had its high points, but the Civic Center boondoggle isn't one of them

  December 18, 2003

• Jerry's World

  Jerry Colangelo and his pals have gobbled up the lion’s share of public development dollars. If downtown’s to be saved, City Hall’s got to share the wealth.

  October 16, 2003

• Kid Drownings

  December 26, 2002

• Off Color

  Skip Rimsza and Mike Johnson race into another controversy

  March 28, 2002

• A Fly In The Anointment

  A coup at Phoenix City Hall

  March 21, 2002

• Confidentiality Trashed

  Disposal error puts Value Options patient records on the streets of Glendale

  March 7, 2002

• Un-Urban Development

  Proposed downtown site draws criticism from residents, urban planners

  January 31, 2002

• National Football Cartel

  How the Arizona Cardinals and their NFL brethren exert monopoly power to extract billions of dollars from American taxpayers

  January 31, 2002

• Grandstanding

  Everyone wants a football stadium in his 'hood. Downtown is a late entry, but don't bet against it.

  December 14, 2000

• 2000 Maniacs

  The hits just keep on coming at Phoenix City Hall

  November 9, 2000

• Silent Majority

  Although immigration has filled the central city with minorities, Hispanics remain neighborhood inactivists

  October 12, 2000

• Rimsza Job

  Skippy to Phoenix: "It's All Good"

  April 20, 2000

• The Check Republic

  City officials sidestep rules to avert New Year's Eve entertainer boycott

  January 20, 2000

• It Happened Last Year...

  January 6, 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

• Muzzle Puzzle

  Why did City Hall keep a new police policy toward illegals quiet until after the election?

  November 18, 1999

• Ground Zero

  With arrests and civil pressures, police have reduced the terror inflicted by Eastside Los Cuatro Milpas. But conditions that gave rise to the gang in the first place still fester.

  October 21, 1999

• Proposition ZZZZZZ

  A Phoenix voter's guide -- in the unlikely event you decide to vote

  September 2, 1999

• Skipping to Re-election

  Three men and some babies, or how Phoenix is choosing its next mayor

  September 2, 1999

• Reservations Required

  Hotelier Steve Cohn continues his anti-Skip crusade with an initiative and an ad campaign

  August 5, 1999

• Two-Cop Cop-Out?

  When an officer is senselessly murdered, the deliberative process dies, too

  April 8, 1999

• The Operator and the Undertaker

  The council race in District 4 pits a perky outsider against the ultimate city hall insider

  October 30, 1997

• "I've Been Had"

  Councilwoman Frances Barwood, facing a recall over her vote on the Sumitomo plant zoning, now claims she was misled by the mayor

  April 10, 1997

• There Goes the Neighborhood

  September 26, 1996

• 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.

  July 25, 1996

• Flashes

  June 13, 1996

• Politics: A Smelly, Puking Habit

  Mayor Rimsza urges reticent council to embrace local antitobacco enforcement

  May 16, 1996

• Culture Schlock

  Foreign journalists are incredulous at banality of Super Bowl scene

  February 1, 1996

• Mayoral Smoke Screen?

  Rimsza blasts cigarette makers, then endorses tobacco-industry legislation

  January 18, 1996

• OUTING INFILL

  PHOENIX'S INFILL HOUSING PROGRAM IS SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY CORE WHILE CURBING URBAN SPRAWL. BUT WHEN IT SUBSIDIZES LUXURY HOMES IN EXCLUSIVE NEIGHBORHOODS, THE PROGRAM FILLS THE WALLETS OF BUILDERS

  September 21, 1995

• DEARTH WATCH

  PHOENIX'S MAYORAL CAMPAIGN OFFERS NEITHER INSPIRING VISION NOR CONCRETE PROPOSALS. WHAT IT OFFERS IS SKIP OR LINDA.

  September 29, 1994