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The Westward Ho Miraculously Has Maintained Much of Its Original Splendor and Charm

Meet Raven, a Homeless Man With More Community Than Many of Us Have

Robrt Pela's Tour of the Westward Ho

​While hunting for underground spaces and secrets for this year's Best of Phoenix issue, I landed at the Westward Ho in downtown Phoenix a few times; the historic building was rumored to have a tunnel to the City's Gold Spot Bowling Alley -- what's now a big, vacant hole beneath a parking lot on C ... More >>

Shaun Donovan, HUD Secretary, Announces $18.7 Million for Affordable Housing Projects in Arizona

Image: HUDShaun Donovan, HUD Secretary, announced today that Arizona will receive $18.7 million in funding this year for affordable housing projects. Looks like we'll need it.​ Hey, buddy, can you spare $18.7 million?Actually, the feds can. And, as announced today by Shaun Donovan, the U.S. Ho ... More >>

Will El Mirage Ever Be Able to Emerge From the Shadow of Luke Air Force Base?

Doug Lingner Investigation: Sarah Fenske's Reporting on Now-Former Maricopa County Housing Authority Chief Bears Fruit

Our sadly departed (from this newspaper, guys, not from the planet) colleague Sarah Fenske wrote a humdinger of a story earlier this year about all manner of fiscal wrongdoing and blatant nepotism inside the Housing Authority of Maricopa County. Doug Lingner holding court in the Hawaiian ... More >>

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Poised to Take Over Housing Authority; Vote Scheduled for Monday

​Responding to serious problems and mismanagement first investigated by New Times and subsequently confirmed in a blistering audit by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is poised to again take over the Housing Authority of Maricopa County ... More >>

Hispanic Panic: George Adams' Film Panic Nation Begins Week Long Run in Phoenix

Panic Nation opens at Cinema Latino tonight​George Adams' documentary Panic Nation, which begins a week-long run at Phoenix's Cinema Latino today, is really two films: one an overview of the United States' schizophrenic mindset when it comes to Mexican immigration; the other, a detailed examinatio ... More >>

The Housing Authority of Maricopa County Fires a Whistleblower

Maricopa County Supervisors to Weigh Housing Authority Takeover

Doug Lingner (pictured) left the housing authority -- now the county may be taking it over.​Acting at the suggestion of Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will explore the possibility of folding the Housing Authority of Maricopa County back under its contro ... More >>

Doug Lingner Is (Finally) Gone from the Housing Authority of Maricopa County - But HUD Is Finding Plenty of Other Problems For Its Board To Address

Housing Authority of Maricopa County Accepts Doug Lingner's Resignation (Grudgingly)

Doug Lingner (in Hawaiian shirt) agreed to accept the board's severance offer, after all.​In a marathon meeting this afternoon that stretched close to four hours, commissioners for the Housing Authority of Maricopa County agreed to accept the resignation of executive director Doug Lingner, e ... More >>

Doug Lingner's Getting Pushed Out of the Housing Authority of Maricopa County -- But His Resignation Isn't Enough to Solve the Agency's Problems

Housing Authority Director Doug Lingner Should Be Placed on Leave, Say Supervisors and County Manager

Doug Lingner, the housing authority's executive director, will be placed on paid leave if county management has anything to do with it.​In a letter to commissioners of the Housing Authority of Maricopa County penned today, County Manager David Smith and the Board of Supervisors offered its a ... More >>

Doug Lingner's Tenure at the Housing Authority of Maricopa County Has Been Marked by Nepotism, Cronyism -- and Plenty of Turmoil

The Real Rip-Off Report

Ed Magedson calls himself an advocate. His enemies call him an extortionist

Cracked Houses

Homes all over Arizona are falling apart. Blame the bad soil -- and the lousy construction

Load of Crappioppoli

Maverick state Senator Jack Harper and shady Clinton administration bureaucrat Henry Cisneros are back and bitchin', which's ruffling tail feathers

Katrina's Second Wind

Hurricane refugees jump to the head of the line -- ahead of the Valley's needy -- for subsidized housing

Ho Folks

Troy Aossey captures the denizens of the Westward Ho in pictures and sound

History Lessons

Yavapai children used to call themselves "dumb Indians." Now they know better.

Neighborhood Bully

Threats, fines and force: The city of Phoenix stops at nothing to revive a troubled community

House Hold

The dearth of affordable housing has reached the crisis stage

'Hood Winked

Phoenix neighborhoods revitalization efforts run into trouble at City Hall

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.

Pols Posturing for Promotions

Who's angling for what, and against whom

Crackdown

After years of neglect, a Maryvale neighborhood and the Phoenix police evict the West Side City Crips

Street Without Hope

On Madison Street, crowds of crack-addicted homeless are plaguing police and downtown businesses. But no one seems to be doing much about it.

Rose Peddles

People are talking about a young political consultant named Jason Rose. But it's probably not the message he'd like to get across.

A Capitol Idea

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

Preach of trust

Since 1968, the followers of the Reverend Roger Rudin had let him run their lives. But after his sudden death last month, the stunned congregation discovered they'd been pawns in a cruel game of deceit, hypocrisy and kinky sex.

A Shaky Foundation - Second in a Series

For the Baptist Foundation of Arizona--and its baffling insider real-estate deals--the devil's in the details

The Moneychangers

A New Times Investigation First in a Series

Out with the old

he 80-somethings at retirement home Desert Crest face eviction. But that's just business, says the home's owner--which happens to be an agency of the Roman Catholic church.

Doubting Thomas

Tom Bearup helped elect Joe Arpaio and mold the myth of "America's Toughest Sheriff." Now the former executive in the Sheriff's Office is convinced he was wrong.

Revoltin' Development

New Glendale CC president rankles faculty with plan to remake blighted neighborhood

Code Blues

A Tempe activist wins the first round in a civic skirmish to soften the city's innovative rental-housing rules. But look for a new and improved version later this year, after landlords and tenants forge a compromise code.

Crime Spree on the Reservation

Teen-gangster Crips on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community got high on crystal meth and cheap beer and terrorized the reservation with drive-by shootings, murder, beatings, fire-bombings and robberies for two years--until the feds busted them fo

The Shadiest Guns in the West

When it comes to ethics, some of Sheriff Joe's top aides take after their boss

A Pain in the Assessment

Some nonprofits get propertytax bills from Maricopa County

Phoenix's Freebie for Fife

The city torpedoed an urban development program when it let Symington off the hook for $2.7 million.

A HISTORY OF FAILURE

PAYING THE PIPERA KICKBACK RAISES NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT SYMINGTON AND THE MERCADO

NIMBYISM, SOUTH PHOENIX-STYLETHE AREA'S CITY COUNCILMEMBER WEIGHS IN AGAINST A HABITAT FOR HUMANITY DEVELOPMENT

MALIGN NEGLECT

FIFE'S DOUBLE TALK ON EDUCATIONGOVERNOR SYMINGTON'S SCHOOL-VOUCHER PLAN IS A GIFT FOR CONSERVATIVES--NOT THE POOR