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The most powerful man in Phoenix explains why he's just a regular guy

By Deborah Laake
Mar 26, 1998

Jerry Colangelo's secretary is out, and so he answers her phone, even though he's on the way to a press conference and a little late. "Bob Longhi!" he cries. Longhi, it turns out, is the owner of a restaurant on Maui that Colangelo frequents. Longhi is not one of Colangelo's...
WHO KILLED KING?

THE VALLEY'S HOTTEST POLITICAL STRATEGISTS TEAMED UP TO PUSH MLK DAY. NO WONDER IT FAILED.

By Deborah Laake
Dec 5, 1995

A great deal has already been said about Arizona's failure to pass a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and most of it has taken the form of pronouncements. On some days since the election, the Arizona Republic has contained little but the wallowing and finger-pointing of every self-impressed columnist from...
WHO KILLED KING?

THE VALLEY'S HOTTEST POLITICAL STRATEGISTS TEAMED UP TO PUSH MLK DAY. NO WONDER IT FAILED.

By Deborah Laake
Dec 5, 1995

A great deal has already been said about Arizona's failure to pass a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and most of it has taken the form of pronouncements. On some days since the election, the Arizona Republic has contained little but the wallowing and finger-pointing of every self-impressed columnist from...
A RACIST STATE?

By Deborah Laake
Dec 5, 1995

"It's a goddamn racist state and no one will say that. It just pisses me the hell off." That's the opinion of Rick DeGraw, the Democratic consultant who ran the grassroots portion of the campaign for Proposition 302. He's not speaking on a hunch, either. In 1988, DeGraw worked against...
UNEQUAL RITESA MORMON WRITER'S FORBIDDEN ACCOUNT OF HER TEMPLE MARRIAGE

By Deborah Laake
May 5, 1993

An Introduction Since my book, Secret Ceremonies, was published last month by William Morrow, the Mormon church has been up in arms. I have been visited by a local Mormon official who told me that his authority to discipline me "comes from Jesus Christ," and who, on April 25, saw...

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