Skip Rimsza

Skip Rimsza, Former Phoenix Mayor, Blasts Union-Supporting Mayoral Candidates

Former Mayor Skip Rimsza accuses three mayor candidates of being the preferred candidates of "union bosses."​ To former Phoenix Mayor Skip Rimza, union is a four-letter word.Rimza, who was mayor from 1994 to 2004, wrote a letter for one mayoral candidate that blasts three others whom he claims ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

Keystone Clowns

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

Through the Cracks

Municipal building inspectors may not catch soil problems

Big Scam Theory

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

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.

Off Color

Skip Rimsza and Mike Johnson race into another controversy

A Fly In The Anointment

A coup at Phoenix City Hall

Confidentiality Trashed

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

Un-Urban Development

Proposed downtown site draws criticism from residents, urban planners

National Football Cartel

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

Grandstanding

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

2000 Maniacs

The hits just keep on coming at Phoenix City Hall

Silent Majority

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

Rimsza Job

Skippy to Phoenix: "It's All Good"

The Check Republic

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

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

Flashes

It Happened Last Year...

Invisible Scourge

While society frets over the threat of school massacres, a more insidious and lethal rampage mounts on the streets, unacknowledged

Snafu 2000

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

Muzzle Puzzle

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

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.

Proposition ZZZZZZ

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

Skipping to Re-election

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

Reservations Required

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

Two-Cop Cop-Out?

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

Flashes

From the week of January 21, 1999

Moral Sex

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

A Capitol Idea

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

The Operator and the Undertaker

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

Letters

Trainplotting

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

"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

Councilectomy

There Goes the Neighborhood

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.

Flashes

Politics: A Smelly, Puking Habit

Mayor Rimsza urges reticent council to embrace local antitobacco enforcement

Letters

Plant Strife

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

Culture Schlock

Foreign journalists are incredulous at banality of Super Bowl scene

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.

Mayoral Smoke Screen?

Rimsza blasts cigarette makers, then endorses tobacco-industry legislation

Letters

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.

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

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

DEARTH WATCH

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