@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…
@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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Phoenix Police Department had already spent more than half a million dollars investigating the Zubia case–the family of five was found murdered in its Phoenix home in August 1992–when KTVK-TV (Channel 3) special projects producer Pamela Tighe requested access to the department’s homicide report. It cost the police department…
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…
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…
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…
Those who tend to wheeze when their fingers do the walking should perk up at this news: Local phone companies have a new service that saves callers the maddening task of dialing after they’ve called directory assistance. Go ahead–pick up the phone and try dialing U S West’s directory assistance…
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…
August 5, 1993, was not a good day for the Anderson family. The Andersons have for many years operated topless nightclubs in Kansas. Recently, they tried to set up shop in Arizona with a club in which the dancers would most likely be scantily clad but not topless. Last Thursday,…
Arizona liquor czar Howard Adams is under attack from his own people. They are concerned that the kind of politicking and deal cutting that led the Arizona Republic to dub Adams the “Mr. Inside” of Phoenix City Council in the late Eighties does not translate well to the field of…
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…
The skies were heavy with rain, and it was just starting to sprinkle as hundreds of students spilled into the Arcadia High School parking lot. It’s a place normally reserved for students’ vehicles; Acuras, Cherokees and the occasional Jaguar are not uncommon. That last Friday of March, however, the students…
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…
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…
