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BLAND AMBITION

HE'S RUNNING FOR THE U.S. SENATE ADS AN OUTSIDER, A BORING STRAIGHT ARROW WITH THE COMMON TOUCH.

By Darrin Hostetler
Aug 11, 1994

It was a sweltering August day in 1966, and two young lawyers were hiking deep within the Grand Canyon. Jon Kyl and Tom Kleinschmidt--both promising associates with the Phoenix firm of Jennings, Strouss & Salmon--had spent the night camping near the Colorado River, and now they were heading home, moving...
WHEN SOMEONE DIGS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

MINERS--SPURRED BY NEW TECHNOLOGY AND INPENDING REGULATORY REFORM--SCURRY TO LOCK UP MINERAL RIGHTS. RESIDENTS OF WALKER, ARIZONA, FEAR THEY'RE ABOUT TO GET THE SHAFT.

By Darrin Hostetler
Jun 29, 1994

Tara McCabe, a thin and thirtysomething woman with a world-weary grin, thought she had found a slice of paradise three years ago when she moved to Walker, a Bradshaw Mountain hideaway that started out last century as a booming gold camp. In a world of encroaching concrete, Walker is a...
AFTER MIDNIGHTA POLICE REPORT GIVES DISTRUBING DETAILS OF A POST-PLAYOFFS SEX PARTY INVOLVING SOME OF THE PHOENIX SUNS

By Darrin Hostetler
Jun 15, 1994

It was May 21, and the Valley was in mourning. The Phoenix Suns had just been eliminated from the NBA playoffs by the Houston Rockets after a roller-coaster, seven-game series. To many, the loss was especially bitter, because they feared it would be superstar Charles Barkley's final game in uniform...
BUSINESS AS USUAL

STATE LAWMAKERS SOLVED MANY PROBLEMS THIS SESSION. UNFORTUNATELY,MOST OF THE PROBLEMS WERE BIG BUSINESSES'.

By Darrin Hostetler
May 18, 1994

When the wind blows in Bisbee, some little children run indoors. It's simply too dangerous for them to breathe the air in this old, southeastern Arizona mining town, says Anjelika Johnson, a Bisbee travel agent and the mother of a 12-year-old girl. The wind blows gritty chunks of dirt and...
LAWYER ON THE LAMA JUDGE WANTS HIM IN JAIL, SO DIVORCE ATTORNEY BOB HIRSCHFIELD HAS GONE UNDERGROUND

By Darrin Hostetler
Apr 20, 1994

Bob Hirschfeld is used to being the hunter, not the prey. The feisty and flamboyant divorce lawyer--whose specialty is winning child-custody rights for fathers, by any means necessary--is usually on the attack, using the courts as a weapon in his especially bloody brand of domestic combat. Now Hirschfeld is on...

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