SHE’S NOT THEIR CUP OF TEA

@body:After hearing so many monstrous things about Carolyne Berry, seeing her is a letdown. Watching the Madison School District board member fidget through a meeting, it’s difficult to imagine how she came to be the object of so much ire. She doesn’t look much different from the rest of the…

SHE’S NOT THEIR CUP OF TEA

@body:After hearing so many monstrous things about Carolyne Berry, seeing her is a letdown. Watching the Madison School District board member fidget through a meeting, it’s difficult to imagine how she came to be the object of so much ire. She doesn’t look much different from the rest of the…

SHE’S NOT THEIR CUP OF TEA

After hearing so many monstrous things about Carolyne Berry, seeing her is a letdown. Watching the Madison School District board member fidget through a meeting, it’s difficult to imagine how she came to be the object of so much ire. She doesn’t look much different from the rest of the…

DWM SEEKS REPARATIONS

When he placed a romance ad in the Globe tabloid, Ed Goldwater says he was “just a lonely guy that wanted to meet a nice woman.” The Mesa chiropractor thought he’d found her in Mary “Kathy” Cook, a respiratory therapist living in Virginia. The two began a courtship by letter…

DESCENT OF A WOMAN

“I think I was like a little girl at Christmas,” Karan English says. With the McDowell Mountains behind her and a dozen rapt faces before her, English is sitting in the library of north Scottsdale’s Mountainside Middle School, telling the student council about her first year as Arizona’s first congresswoman…

PIERCING THE CLASS CEILING

Recently confirmed U.S. Attorney Janet Napolitano gets the biggest round of applause when dignitaries are introduced, but all eyes are on Cindy Resnick and Cathy Eden. The occasion, this December evening, is an opportunity to hear EMILY’s List founder Ellen Malcolm speak. Both Resnick and Eden, Democratic state legislators, are…

OFF DANCER, OFF VIXEN

The owner of Le Girls–a nude juice bar at 5151 East Washington–faces fines and a possible prison sentence after pleading guilty to obscenity and liquor violations at a topless club in Kansas. The Kansas City, Kansas, club, Legs, has been ordered closed for at least two years, and its owners…

SCHOOL FLUNKS THIS ONE

Lots of people know that Matt Martinez, a senior at Mountain View High School in Mesa, is editor of the school newspaper, The Viewpoint. Not nearly as many are aware that he’s also a devout Catholic, because Martinez believes that religion is a private matter. That belief prompted him to…

BEATING A WIFE-BEATER

More than two years have passed since the night her then-husband, Samuel Parker, nearly killed her, but Alice Wheeler says she remembers almost every detail of the beating–until the point she lost consciousness. She’s sitting in a classroom at ASU West, telling her story to students in an undergraduate sociology…

PET PEEVES

After two years of heated public debate and countless hours of taxpayer-financed labor, Maricopa County’s effort to control pet overpopulation is “at a dead standstill” and the chief of the county’s animal-control unit might be out of a job. Tom Simplot, administrative assistant to County Supervisor Betsey Bayless, confirms that…

THE RIGHTEOUS STUFF

In the early 1980s, Arizona State University was popularly viewed as the Disneyland of college campuses. While Central America bubbled with political turmoil and the Southwest was gripped by debate over human rights and the Sanctuary Movement, ASU distinguished itself by consistently rating near the top of the heap in…

CAUSE WITHOUT A REBELPUBLIC INTEREST GROUP’S ARIZONA DIRECTOR IS STEPPING DOWN

WANTED: Self-starter with extensive experience in political advocacy, fund raising and lobbying, to serve as executive director, Common Cause Arizona chapter. Preferred candidate: ethical–but not self-righteous; plugged into scene at state legislature–but not an insider. Must be able to operate fax and photocopy machine, answer phone. SALARY: $20,000-$25,000 for the…

THE STEALTH CONGRESSMAN

His face pinkens with exertion as he lifts the tightly bound bundles of mail onto a desk in a back corner of a Washington, D.C., congressional office. He snips the plastic binding with scissors and sorts through the contents. In his mid-60s, skinny and bowlegged with a face leathered by…

DEAD & HARRIED

About noon on June 18, 1985, Josh Burner pulled his truck into a parking space in front of the Tempe Police Department. He had come to report a murder. He knew exactly what he wanted to say. As it turned out, Sergeant Mike Palmer, a detective, did the listening. “My…

THE LEADING MAN

The lineup of stars sounded like the cast from a Love Boat episode, but the production was Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods’ movie, The Hound of Publicityville, which premiäred June 22 at a fund raiser for Woods at Symphony Hall. With a cast that includes Richard Anderson (the Bionic Man’s…

REALLY LONG-RANGE PLANNING

As an associate planner for the City of Los Angeles, Robert Yabes spends his days in front of the computer, masterminding a long-range plan that will allow L.A.’s millions of residents to maneuver the city’s overcrowded transit routes. This Los Angeles municipal employee has devised a rather unusual commute for…

BATON ROGUES

Sarah Stephens had good reason to be confident on April 17, the day she auditioned to be a baton twirler with the Arizona State University Sun Devil Marching Band. After all, the 18-year-old is a twirling champ–recognized nationally, secure in the upper echelon of her sport. During a competition just…